{"id":211732,"date":"2025-06-25T00:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/211732\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T00:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:21:14","slug":"featherstone-rovers-puzzled-by-injury-to-key-playmaker-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/211732\/","title":{"rendered":"Featherstone Rovers puzzled by injury to key playmaker \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/featherstone-rovers-puzzled-by-injury-to-key-playmaker\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Featherstone Rovers puzzled by injury to key playmaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CAA87F1C-F3EA-4AE9-B3E2-2ECC9A76AF3F-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>FEATHERSTONE ROVERS coach Paul Cooke is hoping to get to the bottom of a nagging shoulder issue for playmaker Calum Turner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The coach hopes scans for the former Castleford, Newcastle Thunder and Dewsbury fullback or halfback, signed in the close-season, will identify the problem and the right treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old, who had a loan stint at Featherstone from Castleford in 2019, made his ninth appearance of this season for Rovers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/featherstone-rovers-bounce-back-from-wembley-loss-to-edge-hunslet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 26-24 home win over Hunslet<\/a> in round 13 of the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>But he was absent for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/late-tries-clinch-featherstone-rovers-success-over-halifax-panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday\u2019s 32-16 round-14 win against Halifax<\/a> at the Millennium Stadium, with Cooke explaining: \u201cThe shoulder keeps coming out, then going back in, so we clearly need to find out what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kiwi fullback Caleb Aekins made the Halifax match after having stitches in a chin gash sustained against Hunslet.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Cooke also fielded prop Pat Moran, signed on loan from divisional rivals Oldham.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Ireland international has been with the Roughyeds since 2023 after previously playing for Warrington, Widnes, London Broncos and Newcastle Thunder as well as in the French domestic competition.<\/p>\n<p>Featherstone, who currently have pack pair Robson Stevens and Jordan Williams out injured, head to York on Sunday for a repeat of the recent 1895 Cup final at Wembley, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/liam-harris-field-goal-sees-york-knights-edge-featherstone-rovers-in-1895-cup-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Knights won 5-4 on golden point<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FEATHERSTONE ROVERS coach Paul Cooke is hoping to get to the bottom of a nagging shoulder issue for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-211732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114741148649277352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}