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Perth Now
07-05-2025
- Sport
- Perth Now
New wound for Dolphins as rake JMK set to miss weeks
Dolphins hooker Jeremy Marshall-King is set for an extended stint on the sidelines, but coach Kristian Woolf has full faith in his replacement against Parramatta. Marshall-King re-aggravated a large cut in his leg in last Friday's loss to the Sydney Roosters and will miss Thursday night's away clash with Kurt Donoghoe the new No.9. Marshall-King had earlier missed two weeks after a stud opened up the wound in the win over Penrith. It got infected and another whack has sent him back to the casualty ward. Fiji international Donoghue returns after missing two weeks with a calf strain. Woolf said Marshall-King's return would "certainly not (be in) a week or two". "How long I don't know. It depends how quickly that heels," he said. "Jeremy unfortunately got a direct blow there again and that's reopened up. He can't play this week and now we need to be really careful with it. He had a pretty major infection and it's certainly a major gash. "We need to make sure it heals properly before we throw him back out. Looking after Jeremy is going to be our most important priority." Donoghoe has "really impressed" the coach in a breakout season. "He's a guy that has floated in and out a bit of Queensland Cup and had really short opportunities. Most of those have been 10 or 15 minutes off the bench over the last 12 months or two years," Woolf said. "This year he has come on and sharpened right up to the level and shown he can do a job wherever we put him, and really add to our team. "He was named to play hooker against the Raiders but unfortunately got a knock on the captain's run. "I had utmost confidence he would do the job then and that confidence is still there." The Dolphins, after two consecutive losses, welcome back veteran prop Felise Kaufusi after a two-week absence with a knee injury.
Perth Now
29-04-2025
- Sport
- Perth Now
Dolphins get star hooker back but forwards sidelined
After losing four hookers to injury and suspension last week the return of star rake Jeremy Marshall-King from a nasty leg gash couldn't have come at a better time for the Dolphins. There was less good news ahead of their showdown with the Sydney Roosters in the NRL Magic Round on Friday night with prop Daniel Saifiti (shoulder) and lock Max Plath (foot) out of the match. Prop Felise Kaufusi (knee) is in the side after a two-week absence and will be given until captain's run to prove his fitness while utility Kurt Donoghoe returns from a calf strain after missing one match. The Dolphins had to rearrange the deck chairs in the 40-28 loss to Canberra last week after four of their hookers/utilities were absent. On top of Marshall-King, Plath and Donoghoe being injured, they had top-30 squad hooker Harrison Graham suspended in the Queensland Cup and also unavailable. Although Ray Stone and Sean O'Sullivan did their best sharing the role against the Raiders, it was the smarts of Marshall-King at key moments that they lacked. The Dolphins led 28-10 at half-time against the Raiders on the back of what Saifiti offered up front but when he went off in the 29th minute the forward rotation was thrown out of sync. Coach Kristian Woolf said after the match the former Newcastle front-rower had been the side's best player this year and his one to two week absence would be felt. Kaufusi won the Artie Legacy Medal, in honour of the late Arthur Beetson, in the club's inaugural match against the Roosters and the Dolphins will be sweating on the former State of Origin enforcer's return this week. "Marshall-King, Kaufusi and Donoghoe are all in line to play in Magic Round, and we will know more as we watch how Saifiti's injury settles down over the next week," Dolphins head of performance Jeremy Hickmans said. Plath injured a foot a fortnight ago against Melbourne and despite being initially named last week he is still in rehab and unable to take the field. The Roosters and Dolphins have both started the season 3-5 and are two points outside the top eight.
