{"id":347868,"date":"2023-11-20T09:45:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=347868"},"modified":"2023-11-20T13:01:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T13:01:44","slug":"stars-nrl-return-breaks-down-over-failed-medical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=347868","title":{"rendered":"Star's NRL return breaks down over failed medical"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bulldogs<\/a>' summer recruitment drive has been dealt a blow after Siosiua Taukeiaho failed a medical with the club.<\/p>\n

According to Nine NRL<\/a> reporter Danny Weidler, Taukeiaho's check-up revealed a serious foot issue.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffF\ufeffirst of all, he didn't have a release from his overseas club, but a bigger issue is that he had a medical with the Bulldogs last week and he failed that," Weidler told 9News Sydney.<\/p>\n

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"He's got a foot injury that is going to require surgery. That will keep him out for the off-season and into next year."<\/p>\n

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Taukeiaho's failed medical with the Bulldogs came as his current club, English Super League side Catalans Dragons<\/a>, refused to grant him a release.<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe 31-year-old was hoping to return to the NRL this season after spending a season with Catalans.<\/p>\n

He \ufeffpossesses a wealth of NRL experience having played 167 games for the Roosters between 2014 and 2022.<\/p>\n

Taukeiaho was initially expected to join Kurt Mann, Drew Hutchinson, Jake Turpin and Poasa Faamausili as the Bulldogs' recruits in what has been a busy off-season for the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bulldogs' summer recruitment drive has been dealt a blow after Siosiua Taukeiaho failed a medical with the club. According to Nine NRL reporter Danny […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347870,"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\/347868"}],"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=347868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347871,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347868\/revisions\/347871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/347870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}