{"id":336880,"date":"2023-10-07T00:05:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T00:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=336880"},"modified":"2023-10-07T01:00:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T01:00:33","slug":"shock-as-souths-legend-placed-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=336880","title":{"rendered":"Shock as Souths legend placed on life support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/south-sydney-rabbitohs\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"South Sydney \">South Sydney<\/a> legend Nathan Merritt is on life support in a Sydney hospital, fighting for his life.<\/p>\n<p>The record-breaking winger collapsed yesterday and was rushed to hospital in an unresponsive state.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed he is on life support with his condition listed as serious.<\/p>\n<p>Merritt, 40, was visiting his aunt when he collapsed.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"7de74de8-4958-415b-bb1e-88606dac393c\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7de74de8-4958-415b-bb1e-88606dac393c\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He scored 154 tries over 237 games in the NRL and was a popular player at the South Sydney club.<\/p>\n<p>Merritt is rated as one of the greatest Rabbitohs to have ever played for the Redfern-based team, with his 218-games for Souths, placing him fourth on the club&#x27;s list of all-time games.<\/p>\n<p>His 146-tries ranks him third on the all-time club try-scorers list.<\/p>\n<p>Merritt played two seasons with Cronulla in 2004-05.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, Merritt was twice named NRL&#x27;s highest tryscorer, when the Rabbitohs finished with the wooden spoon in 2006 and in 2011 when they finished in tenth position.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>He played for the Prime Minister&#x27;s XIII and Indigenous All Stars several times and had one game for New South Wales at State of Origin level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>South Sydney legend Nathan Merritt is on life support in a Sydney hospital, fighting for his life. The record-breaking winger collapsed yesterday and was rushed <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=336880\" title=\"Shock as Souths legend placed on life support\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336882,"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\/336880"}],"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=336880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336883,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336880\/revisions\/336883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/336882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}