{"id":113511,"date":"2021-08-08T04:57:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T04:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113511"},"modified":"2021-08-08T05:56:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T05:56:47","slug":"devastating-injury-news-a-huge-blow-to-eels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113511","title":{"rendered":"Devastating injury news a huge blow to Eels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gun <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/parramatta-eels\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Parramatta\">Parramatta<\/a> hooker <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/reed-mahoney\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Reed Mahoney\">Reed Mahoney<\/a> has been ruled out for the rest of the season after <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2021-parramatta-eels-south-sydney-rabbitohs-reed-mahoney-brad-arthur\/248ac0db-86d9-4caf-b8ed-df559f374165\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"suffering a shoulder injury in Friday night&#x27;s clash with South Sydney\">suffering a shoulder injury in Friday night&#x27;s clash with South Sydney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NRL.com reported that Mahoney had been scratched for the remainder of the season in talks between Eels coach <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/brad-arthur\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Brad Arthur\">Brad Arthur<\/a> and the club&#x27;s medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as a giant blow to the fourth-placed Eels&#x27; hopes of ending a 35-year premiership drought.<\/p>\n<p>Mahoney laid a terrific 77th-minute tackle on <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/south-sydney-rabbitohs\" target=\"\" title=\"South Sydney\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Sydney<\/a> fullback <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/latrell-mitchell\" target=\"\" title=\"Latrell Mitchell\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latrell Mitchell<\/a> as he threatened to break Parramatta&#x27;s line, but he got up clutching at his left shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>The diminutive rake was then visibly shattered as he left the field with the help of a medico late in the match.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Queenslander has suffered a setback to the same shoulder that forced him out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/queensland-maroons\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Maroons State of Origin squad\">Maroons State of Origin squad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The injury cost Mahoney a potential <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/state-of-origin\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Origin\">Origin<\/a> debut and sidelined him for three NRL games.<\/p>\n<p>The Eels are set to face the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/manly-sea-eagles\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sea Eagles\">Sea Eagles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/north-queensland-cowboys\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Cowboys\">Cowboys<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/storm-defeat-manly-andrew-johns-and-peter-sterling-fume-and-melbourne-brandon-smith-penalty\/bc952424-c0f1-45b9-aec7-c386897c37dd\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Storm\">Storm<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/penrith-panthers\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Panthers\">Panthers<\/a> in an extremely difficult run home.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"ca04dd8f-245d-4a8f-9580-64e0946420e9\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ca04dd8f-245d-4a8f-9580-64e0946420e9\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <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!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Gun Parramatta hooker Reed Mahoney has been ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering a shoulder injury in Friday night&#x27;s clash with <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113511\" title=\"Devastating injury news a huge blow to Eels\">[&#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\/113511"}],"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=113511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113513,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113511\/revisions\/113513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}