Sea Eagles copy Latrell move after star's injury

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Manly fullback Tom Trbojevic volition caput to the USA to person attraction connected his troublesome hamstring, pursuing successful the footsteps of Rabbitohs counterpart Latrell Mitchell.

Trbojevic suffered a hamstring strain during a grooming session earlier this month, and has battled akin issues successful the past.

Mitchell headed to Philadelphia successful the mediate of past play to sojourn specializer Bill Knowles, and returned to signifier successful emphatic manner successful the 2nd fractional of the 2022 campaign.

While Trbojevic's wounded past is somewhat much chequered than Mitchell's, the Sea Eagles are assured that the travel volition wage dividends.

"I'm precise grateful," Trbojevic said.

"You evidently saw what Latrell did connected the backmost of it truthful I deliberation it's a truly bully accidental for maine to spell implicit determination and look astatine a fewer caller ideas, and prime immoderate things retired that I tin instrumentality backmost present and hopefully person a truly bully 2023."

There's nary doubting Trbojevic's unthinkable talent, but his inability to enactment connected the tract has been a immense contented for the Sea Eagles.

It's the 4th clip successful 4 years that the 2021 Dally M victor has been shelved by hamstring issues, successful summation to different pec, enarthrosis and genu ailments.

Aside from that stellar 2021 campaign, helium has racked up conscionable 26 appearances crossed 2019, 2020, and 2022.

"Bill's worked with Latrell Mitchell successful the past, amongst different athletes - truthful it's a great accidental for Tom to spell implicit determination and walk 2 weeks, 20 sessions, moving connected re-conditioning his body, and specifically his hamstring," caput manager Anthony Seibold said.

"We thought arsenic a club, we wanted to supply the champion services to Tom, and we thought that Bill Knowles was the idiosyncratic we would crook to."

Sea Eagles CEO Tony Mestrov described the determination arsenic a "no brainer".

"Everyone wants to spot him connected the tract successful rugby league," Mestrov said.

As the Rabbitohs did with Mitchell, Manly volition nonstop a video squad implicit with their prima subordinate to chronicle his rehab.

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