Harmon in the clear after neck injury
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Your support makes all the difference.The Leeds captain, Neil Harmon, has been cleared of any serious damage after being carried off in a neck-brace on Monday, writes Dave Hadfield.
Harmon collapsed after making a tackle in the defeat by St Helens at Headingley and was taken to hospital for scans on his neck and back, which had gone into spasm. He has now been given a clean bill of health and could be ready for Leeds' next game, at Oldham on Saturday.
The former Wigan and England player, Barrie-Jon Mather, who was carried off playing for the Western Reds in Perth at the weekend, has also been cleared of any spinal injury. However, a broken jaw will deny Paris St-Germain the services of the Australian stand-off, Todd Brown, for at least six weeks.
London Broncos feel they are being singled out for unfair treatment from referees and they are asking the Rugby Football League to review the tapes of their first three Super League games. The Broncos' football manager, Robbie Moore, is concerned about the penalty count. "We're asking Greg McCallum, the referees' supervisor, to look at the videos of those games and tell us where we are going wrong," he said. "It's something that requires the League's urgent attention, otherwise our players - not to mention our fans - will start to become disillusioned."
The Oceania Cup, designed to bring Fiji, Tonga, Western Samoa and the Cook Islands into regular international competition after their successes in the Centenary World Cup, has been called off for this season.The tournament has been scrapped because Super League's appeal is to be heard in court in Australia in May.
The Oceania tour of the British Isles, including matches in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, in October, should be unaffected.
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