{"id":33569,"date":"2021-02-10T23:45:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T00:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=33569"},"modified":"2021-02-11T02:08:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:08:28","slug":"injured-knights-star-to-miss-start-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=33569","title":{"rendered":"Injured Knights star to miss start of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/newcastle-knights\" title=\"Newcastle\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newcastle<\/a> have suffered a major blow, with star back-rower Lachlan Fitzgibbon set to miss the start of the season after undergoing shoulder surgery yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgibbon damaged the shoulder in a training mishap several weeks ago and the Knights&#x27; medical staff was hoping it would come good with some rest and rehab.<\/p>\n<p>But the 26-year-old was still having problems with the injury and it was decided that surgery was his only option.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-running back-rower won&#x27;t be able to resume full training for three to four weeks and could miss as much as the first month of the season.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"4e6288fc-3ab5-4f0c-b600-f9837d7dad3e\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/4e6288fc-3ab5-4f0c-b600-f9837d7dad3e\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fitzgibbon is a key man in the Knights&#x27; attack and played 17 games last season, playing big minutes every week.<\/p>\n<p>A local junior, he made his debut in 2015 and has barely missed a game since becoming a regular in the team two years later.<\/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>\u00a0<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>Newcastle have suffered a major blow, with star back-rower Lachlan Fitzgibbon set to miss the start of the season after undergoing shoulder surgery yesterday. Fitzgibbon <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=33569\" title=\"Injured Knights star to miss start of season\">[&#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\/33569"}],"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=33569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33571,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33569\/revisions\/33571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}