{"id":372078,"date":"2024-03-02T02:35:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T03:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=372078"},"modified":"2024-03-02T05:03:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T05:03:46","slug":"munster-touch-and-go-for-round-one-blockbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=372078","title":{"rendered":"Munster &#039;touch and go&#039; for round one blockbuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/cameron-munster\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"C\ufeffameron Munster\">C\ufeffameron Munster<\/a> has been rated a &quot;touch and go&quot; chance to play in <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/melbourne-storm\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a>&#x27;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"NRL\">NRL<\/a> season opener against the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/penrith-panthers\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Panthers\">Panthers<\/a> following an incident at home.<\/p>\n<p>The 2\ufeff9-year-old had been dealing with a calf injury during pre-season and missed both of the Storm&#x27;s trial matches, but was expected to be fit to return for the first round.<\/p>\n<p>However, the star five-eighth is now in serious doubt to face the reigning premiers according to his coach <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/craig-bellamy\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Craig Bellamy\">Craig Bellamy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOLLOW LIVE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/new-zealand-australia-2024-live-scores-first-test-day-three-highlights-results-latest-updates\/e4b243c8-bba4-480f-bf5a-595c72d58d00\" target=\"\" title=\"New Zealand v Australia first Test day three\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>New Zealand v Australia first Test day three<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2024-las-vegas-field-size-brad-fittler-andrew-johns-exclusive\/0af78b6f-0b58-482e-8ad4-f43ff5b7a80e\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Freddy shuts down concerns over Las Vegas field size\"><strong>Freddy shuts down concerns over Las Vegas field size<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\ufeff<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2024-las-vegas-manly-sea-eagles-nathan-brown-wife-pregnant\/e61500e7-4adc-4d05-9a6e-95949ba83dfd\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Manly recruit reveals huge sacrifice for Vegas trip\"><strong>Manly recruit reveals huge sacrifice for Vegas trip<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Mun will be touch and go,&quot; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/slip-in-the-shower-leaves-munster-touch-and-go-for-storm-s-season-opener-20240302-p5f98s.html\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"The Sydney Morning Herald\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"0acd7af4-8de3-4bf9-828e-7eb9f24cabfc\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0acd7af4-8de3-4bf9-828e-7eb9f24cabfc\" alt=\"Cameron Munster of the Melbourne Storm.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We thought he&#x27;d be back a couple of weeks ago, but he had a bit of a setback. It wasn&#x27;t at training actually, he had a little accident at home.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think there was something in the shower and he&#x27;s slipped. He didn&#x27;t re-injure it, but he&#x27;s stretched it again. We thought he may have played in that last trial, but he was a fair way away from returning after that incident at home.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Fingers crossed he&#x27;ll be OK and he will get some training in next week.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Munster&#x27;s potential absence \ufeffcould open the door for highly-touted young playmaker Jonah Pezet, who Bellamy confirmed would come into the Storm lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Gosford product has been waiting in the wings for the past couple of seasons, making just seven first grade appearances, but would face the biggest task of his young career against the Panthers. \ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>C\ufeffameron Munster has been rated a &quot;touch and go&quot; chance to play in Melbourne&#x27;s NRL season opener against the Panthers following an incident at home. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=372078\" title=\"Munster &#039;touch and go&#039; for round one blockbuster\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327120,"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\/372078"}],"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=372078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372082,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372078\/revisions\/372082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/327120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}