{"id":48569,"date":"2021-03-23T03:57:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=48569"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T11:00:43","slug":"bulldogs-back-rower-to-miss-majority-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=48569","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs back-rower to miss majority of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canterbury Bulldogs back-rower Raymond Faitala-Mariner will miss the majority of the season <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/penrith-set-rugby-league-record-no-points-first-two-rounds-ivan-cleary-nathan-cleary-hia-concussion\/77202a03-4502-4a8d-88f8-93d31cf5cc32\" title=\"after suffering a foot injury in his side&#x27;s round two loss to the Penrith Panthers.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">after suffering a foot injury in his side&#x27;s round two loss to the Penrith Panthers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following scans on Monday, the Bulldogs confirmed that Faitala-Mariner will be sidelined for 16-20 weeks as he prepares to undergo surgery for an incomplete fracture of the navicular bone in his right foot.<\/p>\n<p>The back-rower was taken from the field after picking up the injury shortly after half-time and was unable to return to the match in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>The lengthy rehabilitation program will see the 27-year-old effectively miss the season, with hopes he can return for the club in the closing rounds.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b21ab203-a7cc-4fc4-bc5c-cc34570e3560\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b21ab203-a7cc-4fc4-bc5c-cc34570e3560\" alt=\"Raymond Faitala-Mariner watches on after suffering a footy inury. (Getty)\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#x27;s a major injury blow for the Bulldogs who have struggled defensively in the opening two rounds of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Kiwi Test star&#x27;s presence will be sorely missed as Trent Barrett&#x27;s troops prepare to face fellow winless rivals the Broncos, in a game with points up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>The Dogs will also be without star winger Dallin Watene-Zelezniak who was rubbed out for two weeks for a high-shot on former Panthers teammate Nathan Cleary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRL_Bulldogs\/status\/1374210730887553025\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRL_Bulldogs\/status\/1374210730887553025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Canterbury Bulldogs back-rower Raymond Faitala-Mariner will miss the majority of the season after suffering a foot injury in his side&#x27;s round two loss to the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=48569\" title=\"Bulldogs back-rower to miss majority of season\">[&#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\/48569"}],"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=48569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48571,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48569\/revisions\/48571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}