{"id":110270,"date":"2021-08-02T09:16:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T09:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=110270"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T10:00:48","slug":"hunt-sidelined-as-dragons-cop-massive-finals-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=110270","title":{"rendered":"Hunt sidelined as Dragons cop massive finals blow"},"content":{"rendered":"

St George-Illawarra will be without their skipper Ben Hunt just when they need him most after it was confirmed the Dragons<\/a> halfback fractured his arm yesterday.<\/p>\n

Hunt suffered the injury during the Dragons' 50-14 NRL loss to South Sydney<\/a> at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.<\/p>\n

Hunt doesn't require surgery "but will miss at least the next month", the Dragons said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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With the Dragons sitting in ninth with five regular-season games remaining, they have lost their million dollar-per-season playmaker as they fight for a finals spot. <\/p>\n

In fact, it looks likely Hunt will only return to the field this season if St George-Illawarra make the top eight to qualify for the finals. <\/p>\n

The Dragons – who have lost their last three games convincingly – face a tricky run home including games against Penrith, the Sydney Roosters and the Rabbitohs. <\/p>\n

It's all gone pear-shaped since the party at Paul Vaughan's house at the start of July that breached NSW's COVID restrictions.<\/p>\n

It led to Vaughan being sacked by the club<\/a>, and the prop has since signed a one-year contract with the Bulldogs in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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St George-Illawarra will be without their skipper Ben Hunt just when they need him most after it was confirmed the Dragons halfback fractured his arm […]<\/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\/110270"}],"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=110270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110272,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270\/revisions\/110272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}