{"id":81490,"date":"2021-06-06T22:49:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T22:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=81490"},"modified":"2021-06-07T00:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:00:55","slug":"maroons-name-replacement-for-injured-hooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=81490","title":{"rendered":"Maroons name replacement for injured hooker"},"content":{"rendered":"

St George Illawarra captain Ben Hunt<\/a> has been added to the Queensland squad for Wednesday's opening State of Origin match<\/a> in Townsville.<\/p>\n

Hunt replaces Parramatta's Reed Mahoney, who suffered a shoulder injury<\/a> in yesterday's win over Newcastle.<\/p>\n

Mahoney, the Maroons' 19th man, is expected to miss at least a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

Hunt has played nine Origin matches since making his debut in 2017.<\/p>\n

\"Ben<\/p>\n

"I think Hunt plays his best footy at hooker," former Blues captain Paul Gallen told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

"He's a good person to bring in. He's played there before, and he's got plenty of experience."<\/p>\n

Hunt will fly to Townsville to link up with the Queensland squad today.<\/p>\n

The Dragons half was one of the stars of St George Illawarra's 52-24 win over Brisbane<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Doubts still remain over the fitness of both AJ Brimson (knee) and Cameron Munster (foot) although both are expected to play on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

There's been no further update on Dane Gagai, who the Maroons confirmed yesterday was on antibiotics after developing tonsillitis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Queensland confirmed in a statement he had returned a negative result for COVID-19.<\/p>\n

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St George Illawarra captain Ben Hunt has been added to the Queensland squad for Wednesday's opening State of Origin match in Townsville. Hunt replaces Parramatta's […]<\/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\/81490"}],"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=81490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81492,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81490\/revisions\/81492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}