{"id":459520,"date":"2026-03-05T21:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459520\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:15:07","slug":"fletcher-rooney-castleford-tigers-full-back-ruled-out-for-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459520\/","title":{"rendered":"Fletcher Rooney: Castleford Tigers full-back ruled out for three months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Castleford Tigers full-back Fletcher Rooney is set to undergo surgery for a hamstring injury that will see him ruled out for three months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old pulled up during a reserves match on Saturday, injuring the same hamstring he did in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The poor kid has had a few major injuries at a young age,&#8221; head coach Ryan Carr told BBC Radio Leeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s done his knee early on, then his quad and his hammies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Something has to change. If we keep doing the same thing with him, it&#8217;s just going to continue to happen so we have to make sure we set out a specific program for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Tigers are also missing fellow full-back Blake Taaffe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c9v0yxl2mk8o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who is currently recovering from surgery<\/a> after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hooker Cain Robb and attacker Louis Senior have also both undergone surgery for their respective ankle ligament injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robb will make a return in four weeks, however Senior is expected to be out on the sidelines for 10 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Castleford Tigers full-back Fletcher Rooney is set to undergo surgery for a hamstring injury that will see him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-459520","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\/459520","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=459520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}