{"id":430865,"date":"2026-02-17T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430865\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:02:08","slug":"ryan-taaffe-castleford-tigers-full-back-out-for-season-with-ruptured-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430865\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Taaffe: Castleford Tigers full-back out for season with ruptured ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Castleford Tigers full-back Blake Taaffe has been ruled out for the rest of the season after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament on his Super League debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old Australian, who joined the Tigers from Canterbury Bulldogs on a three-year deal in the off-season, suffered the knee injury in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c363nd47400o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s 26-16 home defeat by Wigan Warriors.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely devastated for Blake. He has been a pivotal force behind the culture we are trying to build here at the club,&#8221; head coach Ryan Carr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.castlefordtigers.com\/article\/183\/taaffe-suffers-injury-set-back#\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To know he finished the game with a torn ACL is a testament to how tough he is and how much care he has for his teammates and his club.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Castleford Tigers full-back Blake Taaffe has been ruled out for the rest of the season after rupturing his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-430865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}