Victory marred by Wood injury

WARRINGTON’S 38-18 victory over Catalan Dragons was overshadowed by another shoulder injury to Prop Paul Wood.
Wood, aged 26 was returning from a career threatening injury but suffered a recurrence of the same injury as his shoulder popped out following his first impact and was taken to hospital.
“The shoulder came out,” revealed Warrington coach Paul Cullen.
“He had it put back and has been sent to hospital. It doesn’t look good. We are all gutted for Paul.”
Meanwhile Cullen was also subdued when assessing Warrington’s third win in four Super League fixtures which took the club to third in the table. Although the Wolves ran in seven tries he was less than impressed with some of the performance.
“We worked hard for a 10-0 lead but unfortunately the lack of pace in the game frustrated us and it got scruffy at times,” he added.
“I was impressed with Martin Gleeson’s defence and Chris Hicks is deceptively strong.”
Catalans Dragons had three players sin binned during the defeat, but coach Mick Potter refused to blame the officials. Michael Monaghan, Vinnie Anderson and Chris Hicks all touched down for the hosts in the first half, but Les Catalans kept the deficit to just four points at 16-12 thanks to converted tries from Clint Greenshields and Sebastien Raguin.
It was one-way traffic after the break as Wolves quartet John Clarke, Paul Johnson, Hicks and Andy Bracek all got across the whitewash.
The Dragons’ hopes of a surprise result were dashed by an indisciplined display in which Jason Croker, John Wilson and Remi Casty were all shown yellow cards.