Dolphins fullback Trai Fuller will miss the beginning of subsequent 12 months’s NRL season after scans confirmed he had sustained a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) within the Queensland Cup.
Fuller suffered the long-term knee damage whereas taking part in for Redcliffe within the 17-16 win over Northern Satisfaction within the preliminary last conflict in Cairns on Saturday.
The 27-year-old, signed till the tip of 2026, had scans on Monday that confirmed the devastating information. Fuller is about for at the least 9 months on the sidelines, however is predicted again mid-season in 2025.
“Trai is a helpful member of our membership and our squad and he might be sorted,” Dolphins CEO Terry Reader stated.
“We are going to get him again on the sector as quick as medically attainable.”
Fuller has been one of many breakout performers within the NRL this 12 months, taking part in 11 video games and making 67 deal with busts, eight line-breaks and scoring 4 tries.
The pocket rocket was a dependable alternative for Queensland star Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow, and such was his kind Tabuai-Fidow switched to centre late within the season to accommodate him.
As an rising expertise who simply wanted a possibility within the huge time, Fuller is a chief instance of why the NRL expanded the competitors.
Fuller has performed 92 video games for the Redcliffe Dolphins within the Queensland Cup since 2018 and scored 56 tries, together with being the competitors’s participant of the 12 months in 2023.
“I believe Trai is only a nice instance of coming by way of the pathways,” Reader stated.
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“He has been in our system since earlier than we bought the NRL licence, and after being on a train-and-trial (deal) has proven what he might do within the NRL since he bought his alternative.
“Trai secured a two-year top-30 deal this season and nobody has labored tougher. He has fought arduous to get his alternative, and his performances since he has are available have been improbable.”
Fuller can also be the final word membership man. Regardless of the Dolphins not figuring within the finals, he was eager to get again to Redcliffe to assist the Ben Te’o-coached facet get into the grand last.
He performed a key position earlier than being injured in securing the win.
“Trai could not wait to get again and play in that grand last qualifier and opened the scoring with an exquisite attempt to get them on the board,” Reader stated.
“He additionally went into dummy-half and put an ideal ball over for Val Te Whare to run 70 metres and rating.
“It exhibits how a lot the membership means to him, whether or not or not it’s with the NRL facet or within the Queensland Cup.”
The Dolphins’ two affiliate golf equipment Redcliffe and Norths Devils play one another within the Queensland Cup grand last on Sunday at Dolphin Stadium, with a set of NRL and development-list gamers in each squads.
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