Rhinos star Oledzki taken to hospital after horror injury in Saints defeat

Leeds Rhinos' Mikolaj Oledzki was taken to hospital following the 6-0 loss to St Helens at AMT Headingley.

- by Peter Smith

The prop went off late in the second half and coach Brad Arthur told his post-match press conference: "They've taken him to hospital. It doesn’t look good, he might have a fracture to his face."

He added: "We will have to wait and see; he is pretty beat up, he is on the gas and they'll get him up to hospital. They’ll get him looked at and see where to go from there. It could be surgery, who knows?"

Of how the injury happened, Arthur said: "He thinks he got a shoulder flush on his head, but we don’t want to be making rash statements until we've actually seen it. There has to be some sort of force on his head for him to have a fracture, but how it happened, I don’t know."