Jack Gosiewski just can’t take a trick.
After being forced from the field with a shoulder injury in the Round 24 win over the Dolphins, the luckless Brisbane forward with the ‘Mal Meninga’ armguards is likely to miss the remainder of the NRL season, having undergone surgery for a broken collarbone.
It is the latest setback in an injury-plagued career which has restricted Gosiewski to just 87 matches across 11 NRL seasons.
The powerful 31-year-old has featured 19 times since joining the Broncos from the Cowboys in 2024 but, sadly, is no stranger to hospital wards and x-ray departments.
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After playing the first six games of 2025 for Michael Maguire, Gosiewski then missed nine weeks following surgery to repair a broken arm suffered at Broncos training back in April—his second arm fracture in just ten months.
Yet as disrupted as Gosiewski’s 2025 season has been, it’s nothing he hasn’t experienced before.
After making his NRL debut for South Sydney back in 2016, Gosiewski suffered nerve damage in his neck, a broken collarbone and then a torn patella tendon in 2017 that saw him miss four months and never return to first grade for the Rabbitohs.
He switched to Manly for the 2018 season, only to break his hand in an early-season match against Newcastle.
Barely two months later, Gosiewski suffered a serious arm fracture against the Cowboys which required surgery and then led to a serious staph infection.
Injuries restricted Gosiewski to just 46 appearances across four seasons with the Sea Eagles—yet it remains his most consistent playing output.
Gosiewski remains uncontracted for 2026.