{"id":488831,"date":"2026-03-22T06:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488831\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T06:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:14:12","slug":"leigh-leopards-boss-loan-admission-as-grim-injury-update-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488831\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh Leopards boss&#8217; loan admission as grim injury update issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leigh appear to have come through Friday night\u2019s defeat at Wakefield unscathed, but Leopards boss Adrian Lam has admitted they will have to dip into the loan market if that doesn\u2019t prove to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of an early season injury crisis, Lam was only able to name an initial 20-man squad for the trip to Wakefield, which ended in an 18-14 defeat.<\/p>\n<p>That was Leigh\u2019s fourth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/super-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super League<\/a> loss on the spin, with Aaron Pene and youngster Oliver Polec the two to drop out from the initial 20 come matchday.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Pene nor young off-season recruit Polec have played a minute of competitive action so far this year, with the latter never featuring at senior level in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow young gun Will Brough was the Leopards\u2019 unused 18th man at Belle Vue, and he too hasn\u2019t played for Leigh\u2019s first-team yet.<\/p>\n<p>Want more Love Rugby League? Add us as a <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=loverugbyleague.com\" target=\"_blank\">preferred source on Google<\/a> and ensure you never miss our exclusives and breaking news!<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019ve got through tonight, hopefully, without anyone having to miss next week\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Without a glut of their star players, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/tag\/leigh-leopards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leigh<\/a> have struggled in the early stage of the 2026 campaign, and the situation doesn\u2019t look like it will improve anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking post-match, head coach Lam explained: \u201cNot much is going to change over the next seven days, I can\u2019t see anyone coming back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had 11 players train this week, we\u2019re doing our best and we\u2019ve just got to find a win along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was one or two illnesses in the camp as well, but the majority (of those missing in training) were down to injury. That\u2019s just the situation, we\u2019ve got to deal with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re aware of everything and we know where we need to be, we\u2019ll work hard on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Positively, it would appear no further casualties have come from the defeat at Wakefield \u2013 with Gareth O\u2019Brien passing a HIA during the second half.<\/p>\n<p>But the situation is bleak enough that Lam admits any further absentees would force him into the loan market ahead of next Saturday\u2019s home game against Super League new boys Toulouse Olympique.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201c(Robbie) Mulhern picked up a forearm injury, and we thought he\u2019d broken it at one stage, but it\u2019s good news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Owen) Trout rolled his ankle, but I think that looks like it\u2019s going to be good news as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got through tonight, hopefully, without anyone having to miss next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we do get any injuries from tonight though, we will probably have to (dip into the loan market).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leigh appear to have come through Friday night\u2019s defeat at Wakefield unscathed, but Leopards boss Adrian Lam has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-488831","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\/488831","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=488831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}