{"id":54170,"date":"2021-04-05T07:47:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T07:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=54170"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:59:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T10:59:40","slug":"knights-cop-brutal-pearce-injury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=54170","title":{"rendered":"Knights cop brutal Pearce injury news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Newcastle Knights are hoping to secure an early release for young Cowboys playmaker Jake Clifford after halfback Mitchell Pearce suffered a torn pectoral muscle.<\/p>\n<p>Pearce, 31, is expected to miss up to 10 weeks following a pectoral tear suffered on Sunday during his side&#x27;s loss to the Dragons. Scans today revealed the halfback requires immediate surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of Pearce&#x27;s injury couldn&#x27;t have come at a worse moment for the Knights, with coach <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/newcastle-knights-coach-adam-obrien-facing-big-hurdle-to-name-21man-squad\/eda94b1a-a644-4db3-ab3c-af1ea0b2dbac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Adam O&#x27;Brien admitting he will struggle to name a 21-man squad on Tuesday\">Adam O&#x27;Brien admitting he will struggle to name a 21-man squad on Tuesday<\/a> as the club battles a mounting casualty list.<\/p>\n<p>The club is currently 10th on the NRL ladder, with one win to their name from the opening four rounds. <\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b1f810c2-ed1f-4996-abb0-8bc1c8c59ec1\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b1f810c2-ed1f-4996-abb0-8bc1c8c59ec1\" alt=\"Mithcell Pearce\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/newcastle-lose-pearce-for-10-weeks-look-to-lure-clifford-as-replacement-20210405-p57gnf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sydney Morning Herald\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, the club is now pushing for North Queensland to grant Clifford an immediate release so he can take over for the injured Pearce.<\/p>\n<p>Clifford was dropped and left out of the Cowboy&#x27;s squad on Saturday, but despite this, the club is refusing to budge and grant the 23-year-old an early release.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys young gun signed on with Newcastle last November, on a <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/newcastle-knights-coach-adam-obrien-facing-big-hurdle-to-name-21man-squad\/eda94b1a-a644-4db3-ab3c-af1ea0b2dbac\" title=\"two-year deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">two-year deal<\/a> that will commence in 2022.<\/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 Newcastle Knights are hoping to secure an early release for young Cowboys playmaker Jake Clifford after halfback Mitchell Pearce suffered a torn pectoral muscle. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=54170\" title=\"Knights cop brutal Pearce injury news\">[&#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\/54170"}],"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=54170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54172,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54170\/revisions\/54172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}