{"id":37304,"date":"2021-02-22T01:18:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=37304"},"modified":"2021-02-22T03:56:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T03:56:26","slug":"wests-tigers-youngster-cops-horrific-trial-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=37304","title":{"rendered":"Wests Tigers youngster cops horrific trial injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move over Tom Trbojevic &#8211; a promising <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/wests-tigers\" title=\"Wests Tigers\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wests Tigers<\/a> forward has put forward a strong case for the unluckiest player in the game after the opening round of trials last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie prop Billy Stapleton missed all of last season through COVID-19 and had spent the summer training with Michael Maguire&#x27;s first grade team.<\/p>\n<p>But on his very first carry in the 28-22 loss to the Roosters at Camden on Saturday, Stapleton suffered an horrific jaw injury.<\/p>\n<p>The red-headed prop &#8211; son of Tigers board member Danny Stapleton, was rushed to hospital by ambulance where x-rays revealed two fractures.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson will undergo surgery today and is expected to be sidelined for at least two months.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s terrible luck for the kid,&quot; a Tigers spokesman told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;After not being able to play all of last year, he got his chance, trained with the big boys all summer and now this happens.&quot;<\/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>Move over Tom Trbojevic &#8211; a promising Wests Tigers forward has put forward a strong case for the unluckiest player in the game after the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=37304\" title=\"Wests Tigers youngster cops horrific trial injury\">[&#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\/37304"}],"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=37304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37305,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37304\/revisions\/37305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}