{"id":456353,"date":"2026-03-04T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456353\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:59:09","slug":"alex-walmsley-st-helens-prop-out-for-six-weeks-with-foot-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456353\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Walmsley: St Helens prop out for six weeks with foot injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Helens and England prop Alex Walmsley is set to be out for six weeks with a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walmsley played with the injury in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cy4wjz0jln9o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the win over Catalans Dragons <\/a>on Friday, but he now faces a spell on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old does not require surgery, but needs time for rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Alex will be in a boot for a little bit and will just have to take time,&#8221; head coach Paul  Rowley told BBC Radio Merseyside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If he&#8217;s got a foot injury, there&#8217;s a lot of weight going through it, so we&#8217;ll just have to be careful.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Helens have won two of their opening three Super League games, but Walmsley&#8217;s absence will include a game at champions Hull KR later this month and the derby with Wigan Warriors on Good Friday, on 3 April. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Helens and England prop Alex Walmsley is set to be out for six weeks with a foot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-456353","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\/456353","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=456353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}