Origin star's season over in Dolphins blow

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Dolphins weapon Tom Gilbert has declared helium volition person "no excuses" heading into 2024, arsenic helium heads into what he's declared arsenic a six-month pre-season.

Gilbert connected Tuesday confirmed his play is implicit and volition acquisition country connected the enarthrosis wounded from Origin I

In a video released by the Dolphins, Gilbert revealed a bony fragment was breached disconnected erstwhile helium dislocated his enarthrosis portion trying to tackle Brian To'o. He said the breached fragment is excessively unstable to heal unassisted.

Gilbert explained To'o "wrong footed" him, and helium initially thought he'd suffered a "frozen shoulder".

Tom Gilbert was forced from the tract mid-way done the archetypal fractional of Origin I. (Getty)

"It went acold and numb. I tried to determination it around, and it benignant of rolled and clunked backmost in," helium said.

"At that constituent I knew I'd dislocated it having done that before. I knew it astir apt wasn't going to beryllium the champion news.

"In my caput I wanted to effort to play on, but I couldn't get immoderate spot oregon question backmost into it and that was my nighttime done."

Despite the setback, Gilbert remained pragmatic. He said helium would usage the interruption to enactment connected his intelligence health, and would besides wage a person oculus to coaching unit with an oculus beyond the extremity of his career.

"The biggest connotation that comes with wounded is the negatives of being connected the sidelines; time by yourself, agelong days of rehab, doing things you don't privation to do," helium said.

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"I cognize that doesn't enactment for maine (but) I'm affirmative astir the accidental I get. I get to get different parts of my assemblage right, I get to enactment connected this enarthrosis and near enarthrosis arsenic well.

"I'm inactive 22 truthful hopefully to person immoderate clip disconnected from footy without the collisions and without the changeless week-in-week-out grind, it volition hopefully prolong my career.

"I get the accidental to get stuck into immoderate intelligence worldly arsenic good … freshen up, alteration a fewer things, find immoderate caller habits.

"That's a affirmative attribution you get erstwhile it comes to rehab. You don't truly get six months disconnected from footy usually, and you don't privation it but erstwhile it does happen, what you tin power is what you walk that six months doing."

The Dolphins question to Manly to instrumentality connected the Sea Eagles connected Friday night.

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