Catalans Dragons forward Mike McMeeken suffers awful injury

Catalans Dragons star Mike McMeeken has suffered an awful injury in the French side’s win over Toulouse Olympique.

Catalans ran out 18-10 winners in what was the first game between two French outfits in Super League history.

However, Steve McNamara’s men have been troubled with yet another blow with McMeeken suffering a bad broken arm, Sky Sports confirmed last night.

The powerful second-rower was taken to hospital with a drip in his arm.

McNamara believed that it wasn’t a very good game with low quality from both sides.

“I thought it was a poor game. The scoreboard was reasonably close… but not great quality from either side. I’ve experienced so many local derbies and no matter where you are or what you’re doing these games can be like that – and this game was the same.

“We had to dig deep. We weren’t playing well before we went down to 12 men and Toulouse can exploit space, so that’s probably the positive from that to be able to defend that for 30 minutes with 12 men.”

Opposing boss Sylvain Houles believes his side should have won.

“I don’t think we should have lost this. When it’s 13 against 12, we lacked a little bit of composure…and it was there for us. I’m sad for us, it’s there for us and we needed those two points.”