{"id":100906,"date":"2021-07-16T00:49:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T00:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100906"},"modified":"2021-07-16T05:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T05:00:06","slug":"holmes-injury-blow-derails-cowboys-finals-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100906","title":{"rendered":"Holmes injury blow derails Cowboys finals hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Queensland&#x27;s chances of a finals berth have copped a blow with Maroons star Valentine Holmes ruled out for a month with injury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/state-of-origin-2021-valentine-holmes-suffers-shoulder-injury-queensland-maroons\/a2e06d8f-a19e-4357-a381-c9bd4aaeacac\" title=\"Holmes suffered a shoulder problem\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Holmes suffered a shoulder problem<\/a> in the final seconds of the first half of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores\/new-south-wales-v-queensland-state-of-origin-2021\/921081\" title=\"Queensland&#x27;s 20-18 Origin III win\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Queensland&#x27;s 20-18 Origin III win<\/a>. He did not return to the field of play for the second half<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys confirmed Holmes suffered a grade three AC joint injury and will miss four weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"d7a037ca-7589-4dea-8fab-4e524739bde8\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d7a037ca-7589-4dea-8fab-4e524739bde8\" alt=\"Valentine Holmes\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Valentine Holmes will be sidelined for a month after suffering a shoulder injury in Wednesday night&#x27;s State of Origin finale,&quot; a club statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Holmes underwent scans upon his return to North Queensland yesterday afternoon, which revealed a grade three AC joint injury.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He will not require surgery and will begin rehab in the coming days.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The club said he will not require surgery and the State of Origin player will begin rehab in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The 12th-placed Cowboys are on a four-game losing streak and are in danger of missing the finals. <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores\/north-queensland-cowboys-v-sydney-roosters-nrl-telstra-premiership-2021\/321184\" title=\"They face the Roosters on Saturday\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They face the Roosters on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>North Queensland&#x27;s chances of a finals berth have copped a blow with Maroons star Valentine Holmes ruled out for a month with injury. Holmes suffered <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100906\" title=\"Holmes injury blow derails Cowboys finals hopes\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100909,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100906\/revisions\/100909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}