{"id":397529,"date":"2024-05-27T03:34:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T03:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=397529"},"modified":"2024-05-27T05:05:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T05:05:30","slug":"huge-blow-for-dogs-as-x-ray-reveals-nasty-kikau-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=397529","title":{"rendered":"Huge blow for Dogs as x-ray reveals 'nasty' Kikau injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> have suffered a "nasty" blow ahead of their Friday night clash with the Knights<\/a>, with Viliame Kikau<\/a> set to be sidelined for up to six weeks.<\/p>\n

Kikau suffered a compound fracture to his ring finger during the Bulldogs' 44-12 victory over the Dragons<\/a> last week, with the 29-year-old due to undergo surgery on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Currently ranked sixth on the Dally M leaderboard, the powerhouse forward has been a major threat on the left-edge for the Bulldogs and helped push the side into finals contention.<\/p>\n

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Canterbury general manager Phil Gould<\/a> revealed the news on X.<\/p>\n

\ufeff"Viliame Kikau will undergo surgery today, to repair a nasty compound fracture of his ring finger, sustained during last week's game," he wrote.<\/p>\n

"Recovery time is expected to be from four to six weeks depending on the surgery today."\ufeff<\/p>\n

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\"X-Ray<\/p>\n

The possible replacements for Kikau in the starting line-up are Jacob Preston and Josh Curran, with the Bulldogs yet to announce who will move to the opposite edge to Jaeman Salmon.<\/p>\n

Kikau has \ufeffplayed all 11 games for the Bulldogs this year, recording seven line breaks, 18 offloads, and averaging 115 metres per game.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs, who are currently 10th on the premiership ladder, will be without skipper Stephen Crichton<\/a> and five-eighth Matt Burton<\/a> during Friday night's clash against the Knights, with the duo in NSW Origin<\/a> camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Canterbury Bulldogs have suffered a "nasty" blow ahead of their Friday night clash with the Knights, with Viliame Kikau set to be sidelined for […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":397531,"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\/397529"}],"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=397529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397532,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397529\/revisions\/397532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/397531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}