Joe Batchelor has joined the growing injury list at St Helens ahead of Friday’s Super League fixture against Leeds Rhinos with the forward facing four weeks out with a calf tear.<\/b><\/p>\n
Head coach Paul Wellens confirmed a scan on the forward had delivered the bad news following Batchelor’s exit from the field against Salford Red Devils.<\/p>\n
“On the physio’s first look we were expecting it to be worse so we will take a little bit of comfort in that, but he could be out for four weeks,” Wellens said.<\/p>\n
Saints are also sweating on the fitness of fellow forward Curtis Sironen, who left the field against Salford after suffering back spasms.<\/p>\n
Wellens will give Sironen until the “11th hour” to prove his fitness but admitted that the “signs are not looking good”.<\/p>\n
Saints are also without half-back and kicker George Whitby after he failed a head injury assessment in Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n
“He is recovering well and ticking the boxes. Once he is back fit and firing he can be a very important player for us,” Wellens added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Batchelor has joined the growing injury list at St Helens ahead of Friday’s Super League fixture against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-196604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114708956360412038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}