Leigh Leopards\u2019 injury woe has deepened after losing another two players.<\/p>\n
Keanan Brand is set to miss a minimum of six weeks with an ankleinjury while the news is worse on Andy Badrock, who dislocated is shoulder and could miss the rest of the season depending on the severity of the injury, which will be confirmed through scans that will be received this week.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s rotten for the Leopards, who were already down to 19 available players for their Challenge Cup win over Hull FC, and have now lost another two. Thankfully, Matty Davis is available for selection after passing prolonged concussion protocols.<\/p>\n
But there remains doubt over Owen Trout, who was withdrawn with a rib cartilage injury and has been rated as 50\/50 by coach Adrian Lam for the trip to Wakefield Trinity later this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a hard job to coach,\u201d Lam told Love Rugby League. Even when things are going really good, it\u2019s a hard job to do. But it\u2019s certainly harder when there\u2019s so many things going on at the same time. But I know that deep down I\u2019ve got to just persist and keep working through it, and we\u2019re doing that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t mean that to be negative, that\u2019s just the reality of it. But in moments like this it shows character, and it shows there\u2019s opportunity for players, there\u2019s opportunity for me to think outside of the box too. What can we do different, what have we done that we could change next time, what can we do better?<\/p>\n
\u201cBut also be excited about if we can find a win or two along the way in the next month, momentum and confidence can build whilst they come back, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re looking forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite that, Lam is not intending to dip into the loan market to reinforce his squad.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve never looked at the loan market in my time here. Well, that\u2019s not quite right, but I mean, of late. I\u2019m a big believer that we use the squad that we have here, but we\u2019re down to the bottom bare bones of that with all respect. It might be something that, I don\u2019t even want to put it out there, but we should be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Trout, Lam explained: \u201cHe came off and didn\u2019t go back on as well because it was a risky play, so I will give him up to kick off to be right for that. If he plays, it\u2019ll be great for us, and if he doesn\u2019t, I\u2019m not sure what we\u2019re going to do, but we\u2019ll sort our way through it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joe Ofahengaue is expected to return in two weeks, while David Armstrong should be available a week later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leigh Leopards\u2019 injury woe has deepened after losing another two players. Keanan Brand is set to miss a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}