{"id":129244,"date":"2021-09-15T04:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=129244"},"modified":"2021-09-15T05:57:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T05:57:19","slug":"bulldogs-forwards-career-hangs-in-the-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=129244","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs forward&#039;s career hangs in the balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/canterbury-bulldogs\" title=\"Bulldogs\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bulldogs<\/a> forward Raymond Faitala-Mariner&#x27;s career is in the balance after he underwent a bone graft on his foot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/canterbury-bulldogs-news-injury-raymond-faitala-mariner-out\/f8be9be9-c39f-438b-9aed-90a393bd91ad\" title=\"The barnstorming forward had surgery earlier in the year\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The barnstorming forward had surgery earlier in the year<\/a> but the injury did not heal properly.<\/p>\n<p>The bone graft is a major surgery and there is a 20 per cent chance that Faitala-Mariner, who managed just two games for the club this season due to the injury, could be forced to hang up the boots.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"9dad0153-5284-4e97-8f52-c7918b762269\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/9dad0153-5284-4e97-8f52-c7918b762269\" alt=\"Raymond Faitala-Mariner nurses a foot injury on the sidelines of a Bulldogs game.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is a possibility but we are hopeful it won&#x27;t come to that,&quot; Bulldogs supremo <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/phil-gould\" title=\"Phil Gould\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phil Gould<\/a> told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If things go to plan, he will be running in three months and able to play in six months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/brisbane-broncos-greats-wally-lewis-sam-thaiday-praise-kevin-walters\/81f43263-6ef9-4dbc-ab6a-ad68bf06eb2d\" target=\"\" title=\"Broncos icons back Kevvie despite struggles\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Broncos icons back Kevvie despite struggles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/billy-slater-reportedly-offered-three-year-deal-queensland-maroons-coach\/f8c8f61e-3959-4e96-8291-6979ea97efdc\" title=\"QRL &#x27;in limbo&#x27; after tabling official Slater offer\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">QRL &#x27;in limbo&#x27; after tabling official Slater offer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s too early to tell what will happen.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs today signed former Cowboys and Broncos forward John Asiata, as Wide World of Sports reported several weeks ago.<\/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> <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>Bulldogs forward Raymond Faitala-Mariner&#x27;s career is in the balance after he underwent a bone graft on his foot. The barnstorming forward had surgery earlier in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=129244\" title=\"Bulldogs forward&#039;s career hangs in the balance\">[&#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\/129244"}],"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=129244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129246,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129244\/revisions\/129246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}