{"id":557176,"date":"2026-04-29T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/557176\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:02:07","slug":"liam-hood-castleford-tigers-hooker-out-for-at-least-12-weeks-with-neck-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/557176\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Hood: Castleford Tigers hooker out for at least 12 weeks with neck injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Castleford Tigers hooker Liam Hood is set to miss a minimum of 12 weeks after suffering a “significant” neck injury.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old sustained the injury in the win at Wigan earlier this month.<\/a><\/p>\n

Director of rugby Chris Chester confirmed he was still in hospital on Wednesday awaiting further tests.<\/p>\n

Head coach Ryan Carr said the severity of the injury did not come to light until the following day, with Hood having played the whole match.<\/p>\n

“I was real scared for him and it’s a huge blow for our club and team. He’s such an influential player for us and a leader on and off the field,” he told BBC Radio Leeds.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Every time he’s played this year we’ve played really well so there’s no secret, he’s a common denominator in our performances.<\/p>\n

“He’s improving a lot and getting there but we’ve got to make sure we get him right in that area first and we don’t worry about rugby league<\/p>\n

“The feedback was that the amount of ligament damage he had they were amazed he hadn’t broken his neck.<\/p>\n

“It was a really weird scenario, he finished the game, got off the bus, went home, picked up his daughter, had dinner with his parents, went home and then woke up with it. <\/p>\n

“Something happened and it flared up real bad the next morning, it caught us all off guard.”<\/p>\n

Hood joined the Tigers from Wakefield in October 2025 on a one-year deal, with an option for a second year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Castleford Tigers hooker Liam Hood is set to miss a minimum of 12 weeks after suffering a “significant”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-557176","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\/557176","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=557176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}