{"id":81100,"date":"2021-06-06T01:30:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=81100"},"modified":"2021-06-06T02:05:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T02:05:54","slug":"maroons-star-forced-to-sit-out-of-origin-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=81100","title":{"rendered":"Maroons star forced to sit out of Origin training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queensland Maroons star Dane Gagai has been forced to sit out training just days out for <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores\/queensland-v-new-south-wales-state-of-origin-2021\/921079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Origin I\">Origin I<\/a> after coming down with tonsillitis.<\/p>\n<p>The Maroons confirmed this morning that Gagai is now receiving treatment and &quot;will sit out of training today&quot; as a result of the illness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/state-of-origin-game-1-2021-teams-date-kick-off-time-how-to-watch-teams-odds-everything-to-know-ultimate-guide\/f2362bad-87e5-4c80-9ef8-cf8763f5a877\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"ULTIMATE GUIDE TO GAME 1 OF STATE OF ORIGIN\"><strong>ULTIMATE GUIDE TO GAME 1 OF STATE OF ORIGIN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"d23052b4-8564-4a79-a26a-3b2a40bffd55\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d23052b4-8564-4a79-a26a-3b2a40bffd55\" alt=\"Dane Gagai of the Queensland Maroons\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Maroons doctor Matt Hislop confirmed Gagai is being treated with a course of antibiotics for tonsillitis,&quot; the Maroons&#x27; statement read.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage Gagai is still &quot;expected to be well enough&quot; to travel on Monday with the Maroons squad ahead of the Origin series opener at Queensland Country Bank Stadium in Townsville on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qldmaroons\/status\/1401319374821019657?s=21\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/qldmaroons\/status\/1401319374821019657?s=21<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <em>Sports Sunday<\/em> Billy Slater spoke about the lead-up for the Maroons as they juggle a few injuries including a knee complaint for AJ Brimson, which is expected to put Valentine Holmes into the fullback position. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s a really important [training] session for the Queenslanders today,&quot; Slater said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is their main session and then they&#x27;ll have tomorrow off and then move up to Townsville.&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>Queensland Maroons star Dane Gagai has been forced to sit out training just days out for Origin I after coming down with tonsillitis. The Maroons <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=81100\" title=\"Maroons star forced to sit out of Origin training\">[&#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\/81100"}],"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=81100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81102,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81100\/revisions\/81102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}