{"id":4583,"date":"2020-12-02T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T00:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2020-12-03T02:25:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T02:25:51","slug":"latrells-early-christmas-gift-for-rabbitohs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4583","title":{"rendered":"Latrell&#039;s early Christmas gift for Rabbitohs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/latrell-mitchell\" title=\"Latrell Mitchell\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latrell Mitchell<\/a> has given Souths fans an early Christmas present by returning to the training field ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The Bunnies&#x27; star fullback <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/latrell-mitchell-south-sydney-rabbitohs-injury-out-for-rest-of-2020-season\/2eb2debe-a9ac-4e77-8ebe-ac4b8732d1d8#:~:text=%22Mitchell%20has%20ruptured%20the%20proximal,remainder%20of%20the%202020%20season.%22&amp;text=It%20was%20first%20thought%20Mitchell%20had%20a%20hamstring%20tear%20complaint.\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"ruptured his hamstring tendon in late August\">ruptured his hamstring tendon in late August<\/a> and wasn&#x27;t expected to start running again until the new year.<\/p>\n<p>But after being given a clearance by the medical staff, Mitchell began light field drills this week &#8211; and passed with flying colours.<\/p>\n<p>The early return all but assures that Mitchell will be 100 per cent fit for the beginning of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/mole-gareth-widdop-comeback\/eba28699-242b-409d-8187-a4f41ab77f3b\" title=\"new season\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new season<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s great to see him back out there and moving around,&quot; Souths assistant coach Jason Demetriou told <em>Wide World of Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"3e938c3b-ab57-4b4b-88fb-c373c427427d\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3e938c3b-ab57-4b4b-88fb-c373c427427d\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;He has been spending a lot of time working on his farm in Taree and that has cleared his head and also been great for his body.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He looks in good shape and it is probably his best off-season in a few years, despite the injury. He hasn&#x27;t had to contend with rep footy at the end of the year and a short turnaround and he is very keen and fresh.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He took it easy this week but he will ramp it up and should be running full tilt when the boys come back from their Christmas break in January.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Latrell Mitchell has given Souths fans an early Christmas present by returning to the training field ahead of schedule. The Bunnies&#x27; star fullback ruptured his <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4583\" title=\"Latrell&#039;s early Christmas gift for Rabbitohs\">[&#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\/4583"}],"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=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4585,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions\/4585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}