LIVE: Devastating blow on eve of season-opener

Titans 2nd rower Beau Fermor is each but retired of the 2023 NRL play aft suffering a ruptured ACL successful a grooming injury.

In a abbreviated connection released connected Thursday, the nine said Fermor would present "meet with aesculapian unit to outline his rehabilitation".

The 24-year-old made his archetypal people debut for the nine successful 2020, and has since made 46 appearances.

Fermor was a changeless successful the Titans battalion done 2022, playing each crippled and scoring 11 tries.

Hello and invited to Wide World of Sports' LIVE sum of the archetypal lucifer of the 2023 NRL play betwixt the Eels and the Storm from CommBank Stadium.

The Eels made it to the large creation past season, but their battalion hardly resembles that of the 1 that ran onto ANZ Stadium against the Panthers.

Meanwhile, their rivals from southbound of the borderline person besides mislaid immoderate large names.

Craig Bellamy has gone 21 years without losing successful circular one, but they've mislaid their past 4 consecutive to the Eels.

Parramatta heartland connected a Thursday night. How bully is it.

League is back!