{"id":37955,"date":"2021-02-23T18:13:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=37955"},"modified":"2021-02-23T22:14:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T22:14:25","slug":"keary-injury-sends-shockwaves-through-chooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=37955","title":{"rendered":"Keary injury sends shockwaves through Chooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Roosters are expected to dodge a major bullet, with star playmaker Luke Keary likely to suit up in round one despite suffering a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>Keary will miss this Roosters&#x27; final trial game this weekend against Canberra but is expected to be available by the start of the season according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/keary-puts-scare-through-roosters-camp-with-hamstring-injury-20210223-p5753o.html\" title=\"Sydney Morning Herald.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><em>Sydney Morning Herald.<\/em><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#x27;s understood there were initial fears that Keary would miss a number of weeks, similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/tom-trbojevic-to-miss-nrl-season-start\/ec6f8191-0730-4a2a-85d0-1e35e0c1270f\" title=\"Manly fullback Tom Trbojevic who was yesterday ruled out for the first four rounds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Manly fullback Tom Trbojevic who was yesterday ruled out for the first four rounds<\/a> after suffering a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Roosters will confirm the squad for their trial with Canberra later today. Young guns Josh Ralph and Ronald Volkman were the two halves in last Saturday&#x27;s trial win over the Wests Tigers.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"d33ab111-3171-4e7c-ae6a-209fea5d7118\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d33ab111-3171-4e7c-ae6a-209fea5d7118\" alt=\"Luke Keary\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With round one of the NRL season just around the corner, the Roosters plan to start their year with Keary and Lachlan Lam as the two starting halves.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;ve got four halves that are really pushing hard and training well. Luke Keary and Lachie Lam are our halves to start the season,&quot; Roosters coach Trent Robinson told Fox Sports last week.<\/p>\n<p>Lam, who&#x27;s the son of Roosters great Adrian, has played just 11 games to date after making his debut for the club back in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Lam remains in the starting side all year will be a big question on Robinson&#x27;s mind, with young gun Sam Walker considered one of the future stars of the club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/roosters-set-to-sign-teen-sensation-walker\/21319f4d-b003-463b-aceb-14b919dffd77\" title=\"The 18-year-old signed with the Roosters back in 2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The 18-year-old Walker signed with the Roosters back in 2019<\/a> at the age of 16 after being chased by several clubs including the Cowboys, Broncos, and Titans, and Rugby Australia. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><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 clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Sydney Roosters are expected to dodge a major bullet, with star playmaker Luke Keary likely to suit up in round one despite suffering a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=37955\" title=\"Keary injury sends shockwaves through Chooks\">[&#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\/37955"}],"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=37955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37957,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37955\/revisions\/37957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}