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Player Dallin Watene-Zelezniak

Date of Birth
Aug 17, 1995
Birth Location
Hamilton, New Zealand
Nationality
  1. 🇳🇿 New Zealand
  2. 🇹🇴 Tonga
Height (cm)
186 cm
Weight (kg)
97 kg
Position/s
  1. Fullback
  2. Winger
Warrior #
262
NRL Debut Date
Apr 5, 2014
NRL Debut Details
NRL 2014, Round 5, Penrith Panthers Vs Canberra Raiders
Warriors Debut Date
Mar 12, 2022
Warriors Debut Details
NRL 2022, Round 1, St George Illawarra
Warriors Years Active
  1. 2022
  2. 2023
  3. 2024
  4. 2025
Signed From
Canterbury Bulldogs
Junior Club/s
College Old Boys (Hamilton, NZ), St Clair Comets (Sydney, NSW)
Previous Club/s
Penrith Panthers, Canterbury Bulldogs
Current Club
New Zealand Warriors
Rep Honours
  1. NZ
  2. NZ māori
Awards/Honours
  1. Dally M (Positional Award)
Status
Active
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallin_Watene-Zelezniak
Rugby League Project
https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/dallin-watene-zelezniak/summary.html

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WARRIORS STAR TO MISS HALF OF 2025

Warriors star Dallin Watene-Zelezniak will be sidelined for up to 12 weeks — possibly more — after fracturing and dislocating his left wrist, the club confirmed.

Watene-Zelezniak, 29, was injured in the Warriors’ first pre-season trial against Cronulla and had surgery last week.

His best-case scenario is a return between rounds 10 and 14, the club said in a statement.

That gives him an earliest return of May 10, against the Dragons in Wollongong.

The gun winger will be an unlucky absentee from New Zealand’s season-opener in Las Vegas, also against the Raiders on Sunday, March 2 (AEDT).

 
WARRIORS STAR TO MISS HALF OF 2025

Warriors star Dallin Watene-Zelezniak will be sidelined for up to 12 weeks — possibly more — after fracturing and dislocating his left wrist, the club confirmed.

Watene-Zelezniak, 29, was injured in the Warriors’ first pre-season trial against Cronulla and had surgery last week.

His best-case scenario is a return between rounds 10 and 14, the club said in a statement.

That gives him an earliest return of May 10, against the Dragons in Wollongong.

The gun winger will be an unlucky absentee from New Zealand’s season-opener in Las Vegas, also against the Raiders on Sunday, March 2 (AEDT).

Wow, that's nearly half the season! No doubt we will be signing an outside back.
 

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WARRIORS STAR TO MISS HALF OF 2025

Warriors star Dallin Watene-Zelezniak will be sidelined for up to 12 weeks — possibly more — after fracturing and dislocating his left wrist, the club confirmed.

Watene-Zelezniak, 29, was injured in the Warriors’ first pre-season trial against Cronulla and had surgery last week.

His best-case scenario is a return between rounds 10 and 14, the club said in a statement.

That gives him an earliest return of May 10, against the Dragons in Wollongong.

The gun winger will be an unlucky absentee from New Zealand’s season-opener in Las Vegas, also against the Raiders on Sunday, March 2 (AEDT).


Ok so they scanned then opened up the wrist and found it was a bad as it gets as far as repair goes.

Unfortunate fact of biomechanics eh, you take your wrists for granted. Bits that can move in lots of directions tend to be shithouse to heal after repair because they are delicate miracles of evolution.

Still, New Zealand is pretty good with hand clinic medicine.
 
WARRIORS STAR TO MISS HALF OF 2025

Warriors star Dallin Watene-Zelezniak will be sidelined for up to 12 weeks — possibly more — after fracturing and dislocating his left wrist, the club confirmed.

Watene-Zelezniak, 29, was injured in the Warriors’ first pre-season trial against Cronulla and had surgery last week.

His best-case scenario is a return between rounds 10 and 14, the club said in a statement.

That gives him an earliest return of May 10, against the Dragons in Wollongong.

The gun winger will be an unlucky absentee from New Zealand’s season-opener in Las Vegas, also against the Raiders on Sunday, March 2 (AEDT).

Didn’t look like much in it at the time, pushed out over the sideline and rewatching just seemed to land on his back. Freak sort of thing to dislocate it.

Harsh start to the season and hope he recovers fast.
 

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Hi
An update based on the injury report

DWZs surgery on injured wrist was successful
He will be back between round 10 to round 14
Plenty of time for Roger to get his defensive reads right.

Get well soon Dwizz
 
Forget criticisms of his defence (these are mostly wrong, this has been covered by SJ, Fonzie, Wahs Up and others). DWZ does look off his best by quite a long way. His meters and carry numbers are very low. I've re watched the game and I've noticed him running sideways a lot on kick returns, and often passing to someone before he is tackled. It looks to me like he's either a bit busted, or the injury knocked his confidence. Having said that, as with CNK, Metcalf and everyone else who has copped criticism, I think Webby will (and should) back him to come good.
 

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Forget criticisms of his defence (these are mostly wrong, this has been covered by SJ, Fonzie, Wahs Up and others).

Yeah, this really talked me off a ledge with him. Other teams are also doing the same defensive setup, we just have a cracked out FB who can cover like no other.

DWZ does look off his best by quite a long way.

I agree. However, I feel like his value is in that try he scored form the bomb. How he jumped that high is mind boggling.
 

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