{"id":78481,"date":"2021-05-31T09:27:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=78481"},"modified":"2021-05-31T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:57:13","slug":"de-belin-set-for-nrl-return-against-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=78481","title":{"rendered":"De Belin set for NRL return against Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St George Illawarra star Jack De Belin is set to be named to play for the Dragons this Thursday against the Broncos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/jack-de-belin-rugby-league-return-first-game-since-2018\/9bf73fa1-2801-4732-b7ff-5eba34c93706\" title=\"The 30-year-old turned out for the Dragons in their NSW Cup match against Western Suburbs on Saturday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The 30-year-old turned out for the Dragons in their NSW Cup match against Western Suburbs on Saturday<\/a>, just days after confirmation that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions had dropped the remaining sexual assault charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>It was his first game since he was charged in late 2018, and stood down under the NRL&#x27;s no-fault stand-down policy.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"50edea0b-ee88-4414-bb7c-631c1eb290f8\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/50edea0b-ee88-4414-bb7c-631c1eb290f8\" alt=\"Jack de Belin arrives at Downing Centre Local &amp; District Court in Sydney.\" data-width=\"1659\" data-height=\"933\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While coach Anthony Griffin signalled that De Belin would need more time before he&#x27;s NRL ready, it appears that path has been fast-tracked with the forward set to turn out for the Dragons in round 13.<\/p>\n<p>It will be his first appearance in the NRL since September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>With Tariq Sims out of the squad on State of Origin duties, Griffin has presumably decided to take a punt on De Belin, rushing him back into the fray.<\/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>St George Illawarra star Jack De Belin is set to be named to play for the Dragons this Thursday against the Broncos. The 30-year-old turned <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=78481\" title=\"De Belin set for NRL return against Broncos\">[&#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\/78481"}],"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=78481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78483,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78481\/revisions\/78483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}