{"id":134652,"date":"2021-09-26T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T08:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=134652"},"modified":"2021-09-26T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T12:00:26","slug":"gun-prop-adds-to-panthers-injury-headaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=134652","title":{"rendered":"Gun prop adds to Panthers&#039; injury headaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/penrith-panthers\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Panthers\">Panthers<\/a> are sweating on the fitness of front-rowers James Fisher-Harris, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/tevita-pangai-junior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Tevita Pangai junior\">Tevita Pangai Junior<\/a> and Moses Leota as they zero in on next Sunday&#x27;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"NRL\">NRL<\/a> grand final against the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/south-sydney-rabbitohs\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Rabbitohs\">Rabbitohs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Penrith were without Leota for their <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/finals-2021-penrith-panthers-melbourne-storm-grand-final-south-sydney-rabbitohs\/069509a9-8571-40df-b191-a3eee80df5cf\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"10-6 preliminary final win over Melbourne\">10-6 preliminary final win over Melbourne<\/a> yesterday, before Fisher-Harris and Pangai Jr joined the club&#x27;s injury list during the Panthers&#x27; lightning-quick and brutal grand final qualifier clash with the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-news-craig-bellamy-melbourne-storm-played-worst-game-of-season\/f6a7ab05-7513-4cf4-aeb8-43c5b5a9f5c9\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Storm\">Storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Leota battles a calf injury during the lead-up to the decider, Fisher-Harris and Pangai Jr are dealing with knee injuries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-news-reece-walsh-arrested-alleged-incident\/f72eb913-e3b2-487e-8a87-28d49af30afe\" target=\"\" title=\"Warriors star Reece Walsh arrested after incident at Surfers Paradise nightclub, busted with cocaine\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Warriors star Reece Walsh arrested after incident at Surfers Paradise nightclub, busted with cocaine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"2aed4f1b-1d76-4b33-a8c2-01c4111ec7e9\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/2aed4f1b-1d76-4b33-a8c2-01c4111ec7e9\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bench hooker Mitch Kenny is also under an injury cloud, having suffered an ankle injury during the Panthers&#x27; semi-final and missing the preliminary final.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Penrith co-captain <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/isaah-yeo\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Isaah Yeo\">Isaah Yeo<\/a> was asked about the camp&#x27;s fitness on Nine&#x27;s NRL <em>Sunday Footy Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They all did medicals this morning. We&#x27;ve had a few hobbling around every week, so you sort of wait until tomorrow to figure out what&#x27;s going on,&quot; Yeo said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/afl-grand-final-2021-western-bulldogs-defeat-melbourne-demons-clearances-analysis\/4dffe704-bec6-4457-92d2-6a5c01c60ad2\" target=\"\" title=\"The critical error that lost Western Bulldogs the AFL grand final\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The critical error that lost Western Bulldogs the AFL grand final<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"232b0b4c-53f7-4284-8ea9-02cc71aa0790\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/232b0b4c-53f7-4284-8ea9-02cc71aa0790\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;To me it looked like a medial (for Pangai Jr), Moses another one and then &#x27;Fish&#x27; not quite sure either.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;ve had injuries pretty much since <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/state-of-origin\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Origin\">Origin<\/a>, to be fair. We&#x27;ve dealt with it really well.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s obviously been a little bit different to last season. Last year it seemed like it was smooth sailing right throughout the year, whereas we&#x27;ve had to face a little bit more adversity with that kind of stuff this year.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Whatever happens we&#x27;ll name 17 players that I&#x27;m sure are able to do the job on the weekend.&quot;<\/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>The Panthers are sweating on the fitness of front-rowers James Fisher-Harris, Tevita Pangai Junior and Moses Leota as they zero in on next Sunday&#x27;s NRL <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=134652\" title=\"Gun prop adds to Panthers&#039; injury headaches\">[&#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\/134652"}],"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=134652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134654,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134652\/revisions\/134654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}