{"id":114048,"date":"2021-08-09T12:33:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114048"},"modified":"2021-08-09T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T14:58:13","slug":"recovering-storm-gun-a-shadow-of-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114048","title":{"rendered":"Recovering Storm gun &#039;a shadow of himself&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NRL guru Phil Gould believes there&#x27;s still a way to go for Ryan Papenhuyzen until he&#x27;s dazzling the NRL once more with his fireworks at fullback, despite having made his long-awaited return from a serious concussion over three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Storm gun was arguably the NRL&#x27;s hottest property until he was <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/dragons-centre-tyrell-fuimaono-sent-off-for-high-shot-on-storm-ryan-papenhuyzen\/f54f7a4e-9366-45a1-852b-34474c4b0904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"knocked senseless by St George Illawarra&#x27;s Tyrell Fuimaono in Magic Round following a brutal hit.\">knocked senseless by St George Illawarra&#x27;s Tyrell Fuimaono in Magic Round following a brutal hit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It forced him <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2021-ryan-papenhuyzen-melbourne-storm-concussion-social-media\/2e04becf-02fa-4440-883c-912783630a2d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"out of the game for two months as he dealt with the ongoing issues of concussion\">out of the game for two months as he dealt with the ongoing issues of concussion<\/a>, revealing he had been suffering mood swings since the collision.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#x27;t until round 19 that the 23-year-old stepped back on the pitch, but has so far started from the bench in limited bursts.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"f4ec4898-95f7-4ead-9f95-2cc1322bcb14\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/f4ec4898-95f7-4ead-9f95-2cc1322bcb14\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While it&#x27;s understandable the Storm would be eager to heavily manage Papenhuyzen&#x27;s return, Gould is less than convinced the same player has returned, proclaiming that the fullback had looked a &quot;shadow of himself&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Delving into his analysis, Gould was confident Papenhuyzen was receiving the best treatment but stressed there still may be a long road ahead until &#x27;Paps&#x27; is taking the league by the scruff of its neck again.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I still see him as very withdrawn and very cautious and very tentative about his football,&quot; Gould told Nine&#x27;s 100% Footy.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The fact they&#x27;re leaving it until the second half to put him on the field leads me to that they&#x27;re a little bit concerned about trying to bring him along.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"346e50dc-7156-424d-b53c-e41b56d8d88e\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/346e50dc-7156-424d-b53c-e41b56d8d88e\" alt=\"Ryan Papenhuyzen\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I can only imagine he&#x27;s getting the best of care down in Melbourne \u2013 sports psychology, confidence-wise, coach, players team, he&#x27;s in no better environment to deal with this injury and come back from it.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But there is no hiding the fact that he is not the player he was earlier in the year when he was just brimming with confidence and really out there.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What snaps him out of that and makes him believe in himself and do it again? It could just be a moment in a game, it could be one special play or it could just be Craig Bellamy waking up one morning when he&#x27;s on the bench and saying &#x27;Guess what Tiger? You&#x27;re in today, off you go&#x27; and just shot him the deep end and see what happens.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#x27;s had a bad knock and he&#x27;s had a bad experience. He&#x27;s not a big man and I guess other players are trying to sort him out too when they&#x27;re feeling his confidence is down. But only he can pull himself through this.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In June, Papenhuyzen penned an emotional message on social media amid his recovery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanpapenhuyzen\/status\/1405794626577985537\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanpapenhuyzen\/status\/1405794626577985537<\/a><\/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>NRL guru Phil Gould believes there&#x27;s still a way to go for Ryan Papenhuyzen until he&#x27;s dazzling the NRL once more with his fireworks at <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114048\" title=\"Recovering Storm gun &#039;a shadow of himself&#039;\">[&#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\/114048"}],"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=114048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114050,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114048\/revisions\/114050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}