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Korbin Sims played with broken arm against Newcastle

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St George Illawarra will nervously wait for scans on forward Korbin Sims after he played through a suspected broken arm in the Dragons’ NRL win over Newcastle.

Sims appeared to have suffered the injury on a routine carry not long after coming on midway through the first half at McDonald Jones Stadium on Sunday. 

The 27-year-old bravely played through the pain for the rest of the first half before club doctors ruled him out of action at halftime. 

The injury comes in just his second game for the club after completing a two-game suspension incurred while playing for Brisbane last year. 

“We’re not having too much luck there. It looks like he’s broken his arm,” Dragons coach Paul McGregor said of Sims’ injury. 

McGregor admitted doctors were initially unaware of the severity of the injury despite Sims clearly relying on his right arm to attempt tackles. 

He also turned the ball over on a simple carry. 

“Certainly Korbin was displaying to the medical staff that he’d like to stay there and try and work through it,” McGregor said. 

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“Then at halftime the doctor had a look at it, and then the choice was made that he’s not to return to the field. 

“We still don’t know if it’s broken by the way. It could be a bad cork, but he’s broke one in the past so he had that strapped obviously before the game.” 

Sims isn’t the only injury concern for the Dragons, with second-rower Jacob Host also failing to finish the match after aggravating an ankle issue. 

He came off with about half an hour to go and didn’t return. 

Losing either or both players for any length of time will be a gut punch for a side already missing star Jack de Belin due to the NRL’s no-fault stand-down policy. 

“He rolled it leading into round one, didn’t do much training that week, and it’s a recurrence of that,” McGregor said of Host’s injury. 

“I’m not a doctor or a physio but he came off because he couldn’t continue. We’ll just have to look at that during the week.”

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