{"id":363792,"date":"2024-01-29T19:32:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=363792"},"modified":"2024-01-29T22:02:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T22:02:18","slug":"loophole-closed-as-stars-las-vegas-request-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=363792","title":{"rendered":"Loophole closed as star&#039;s Las Vegas request rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/sydney-roosters\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Roosters\">Roosters<\/a> veteran\ufeff <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/jared-waerea-hargreaves\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Jared Waerea-Hargreaves\">Jared Waerea-Hargreaves<\/a> has been ruled out of the club&#x27;s season-opening trip to Las Vegas, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"NRL\">NRL<\/a> refusing to budge on his suspension.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old is still serving a seven-game ban for separate offences in the round 26 match against the Tigers, which rubbed him out of the Roosters&#x27; finals campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Roosters applied to have the annual All Stars clash included in \ufeffWaerea-Hargreaves&#x27; ban but the club was told the game wouldn&#x27;t count as part of the suspension, and he&#x27;ll have to sit out the clash against the Broncos at Allegiant Stadium in Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2024-st-george-illawarra-dragons-raymond-faitala-mariner-signing-contract-bulldogs\/cf9e0c15-38e8-4a9f-9b63-5c16769a852f\" target=\"\" title=\"Bulldogs veteran departs after lengthy saga\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bulldogs veteran departs after lengthy saga<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/combat-sports\/boxing-news-2024-tim-tszyu-keith-thurman-las-vegas-jermell-charlo\/22f9e6f6-23a3-466d-b75a-e63e18a01020\" target=\"\" title=\"Tszyu&#x27;s parting shot towards &#x27;cowardly&#x27; rival\ufeff\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tszyu&#x27;s parting shot towards &#x27;cowardly&#x27; rival\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/news-2024-australian-open-mens-final-daniil-medvedev-jannik-sinner-wally-masur\/416c51f6-ff5c-499d-85bd-0e3101c2ac1b\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"The silver linings for Medvedev after final collapse\"><strong>The silver linings for Medvedev after final collapse<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Rugby League named Waerea-Hargreaves in the preliminary squad for the Pacific Championships, despite the champion prop having no chance of playing in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"a042e007-6bf6-42c3-930e-3f1471dc38fa\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a042e007-6bf6-42c3-930e-3f1471dc38fa\" alt=\"Roosters gun Jared Waerea-Hargreaves.\" data-width=\"4536\" data-height=\"2551\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That meant Waerea-Hargreaves was allowed to wipe another three games off his suspension.<\/p>\n<p>He hoped including the All Stars, too, would allow him to be available for round one, but the NRL has knocked that back.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The prop will now likely make his return for the Roosters against the Rabbitohs in round three, which will also be his 300th game.<\/p>\n<p>The Roosters will rely on\ufeff Lindsay Collins and Spencer Leniu to lead the pack in Las Vegas, against a Brisbane team featuring Payne Haas and Pat Carrigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Roosters veteran\ufeff Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has been ruled out of the club&#x27;s season-opening trip to Las Vegas, with the NRL refusing to budge on his suspension. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=363792\" title=\"Loophole closed as star&#039;s Las Vegas request rejected\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":331861,"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\/363792"}],"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=363792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363794,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363792\/revisions\/363794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/331861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}