Wigan Warriors will be without Ethan Havard for an unspecified period of time after breaking his jaw.<\/p>\n
The prop suffered the injury in the victory over Wakefield Trinity and it has required surgery, with Wigan now monitoring his recovery heading into the second half of the season.<\/p>\n
Coach Matt Peet said the timeline for his return is unclear and will be dependent on the way his jaw recovers after the procedure.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe got operated on over the weekend,\u201d Peet confirmed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of timeframe, it\u2019s going to be a case of seeing how he comes back and when he\u2019s checked up. I know he\u2019s healing and getting the metal out.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been excellent. He played big minutes as well. It\u2019s a hole we\u2019re going to have to fill.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the squad, Wigan are tracking well heading into their game with York. Peet saved special praise for Oli Partington for his excellent performances since returning to the club ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been really impressed with him. I\u2019ll equally say that I think Kaide (Ellis), off the bench, has found some really good form. He\u2019s played 60 minutes most weeks. Between them, they\u2019re nailing that role.<\/p>\n
\u201cOli\u2019s energy and physicality balance with his good decisions with the ball. When we\u2019ve got him and Kaide on, it brings that extra dimension of two middles who can carry and play. The most important thing with them both is the energy they bring in. I\u2019m made up with the impact he\u2019s made since we brought him back.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Wigan are flying and their opponents this week, York Knights, struggling for form, Peet is not willing to take them lightly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel there\u2019s a lot of optimism around York. I know Mark\u2019s a smart switched on coach and Clint\u2019s got a long-term vision for the club. Like I said, I feel like they\u2019ve troubled everyone.
They certainly troubled us when they came down to the brick earlier in the year. We were probably fortunate to get away that night with the win. They did really cause us problems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Warriors will be without Ethan Havard for an unspecified period of time after breaking his jaw. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-741213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}