Leeds Rhinos have been dealt another injury blow after Harry Newman suffered an injury setback.
The centre, who is closing in on a return to fitness after a horrific double leg break, will remain on the sidelines for at least another six weeks after his latest scan.
Richard Agar had hoped Newman would return for the game against St Helens on June 11th, however, scans have shown that he will now have to spend at least six further weeks on the sidelines before being able to return.
"He had a scan this week and he's still got some more healing to do," Agar confirmed.
"We were all systems go, it's such an injury that if it's not healed properly and it goes again, we've got major problems, not like it wasn't a major problem, but I'm talking major problems that could put a question mark on his career.
"He's suchacceptlliant talent, he's working so hard, he's so young with so much of his career in front of him. But the speeding of the healing hasn't just gone as it did early doors. It healed really well, really quickly, and it's just tapered off.
"It's not that there are any complications, it's just the speed in which the bone is healing and knitting together. It's not healing as much as the early parts. The next scan is in six weeks time so we'll have to wait another six weeks. We accpet that, it's such a big, traumatic injury."
In better news, both Tom Holroyd and Cameron Smith are due to return in the next fortnight.
