{"id":49957,"date":"2021-03-26T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=49957"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:59:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T15:59:57","slug":"chooks-injury-crisis-now-full-blown-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=49957","title":{"rendered":"Chooks injury crisis now full-blown catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the competition&#x27;s heavyweights are officially on the ropes, after Roosters coach Trent Robinson confirmed that Luke Keary had suffered a suspected ACL injury.<\/p>\n<p>It&#x27;s brutal news for the Roosters, who also lost forward Lindsay Collins and Keary&#x27;s halves partner Lachlan Lam prematurely <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-live-scores-2021-dragons-sea-eagles-rabbitohs-roosters-start-time-results-news-round-3\/f551d850-f8cb-4f1e-908e-3853fa26178a\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"during their 26-16 loss to arch-rivals South Sydney\">during their 26-16 loss to arch-rivals South Sydney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6244431379001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/03\/350902\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"NRL Highlights: The Rabbitohs surge early to beat the Roosters in Friday Night Footy - Round 3\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckmq6ejgb002g0ht2i6sriujk\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Lindsay&#x27;s obviously pretty clear, he&#x27;s ok there. Lachy I think it&#x27;s medial and Kez it&#x27;s ACL,&quot; Robinson said in the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The way that we played the game was really disappointing and then you layer that on top. You can imagine how it&#x27;s going to be in there.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>It&#x27;s a series of brutal blows for the Roosters, who are already currently without key players such as Victor Radley, Sam Verrills, Boyd Cordner, and Jake Friend.<\/p>\n<p>With Lam and Keary missing at least the short-term future, the Roosters spine faces a total overhaul going into their next few games.<\/p>\n<p>Young gun Sam Walker and former Dragon Drew Hutchison seem the likely halves pairing going forward &#8211; but Robinson could throw a curveball and move centre Joseph Manu to five-eighth, or even give a shock debut to boom rookies Joseph Suaalii or Ronald Volkman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nrlphysio\/status\/1375409843507322880\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/nrlphysio\/status\/1375409843507322880<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;That&#x27;s not for now, give us a little bit of time there,&quot; he said when asked about next week&#x27;s halves option.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My job here is to sit here and explain what happened out there tonight to some people who were disappointed in what they saw from the Roosters side.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Robinson said his team played &#x27;good, open footy&#x27; in the past two weeks but weren&#x27;t ready for the test that came with facing one of the competition&#x27;s heavyweights.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We were ill-disciplined in defence &#8230; we weren&#x27;t good enough or competitive enough with the ball to get out of our own end and put it in the right spots.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We tried to leapfrog the hard bits to get to the pretty bits and we didn&#x27;t get there.&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> <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>One of the competition&#x27;s heavyweights are officially on the ropes, after Roosters coach Trent Robinson confirmed that Luke Keary had suffered a suspected ACL injury. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=49957\" title=\"Chooks injury crisis now full-blown catastrophe\">[&#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\/49957"}],"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=49957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49959,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957\/revisions\/49959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}