Workington Comets suffered further injury troubles on Saturday night as popular Australian heat leader Mick Powell cras🍷hed out, possibly for the season, with a broken femur and assorted other injuries in the home victory over Arena E♛ssex.

As a heat leader, Powell can be replaced by a guest, but that will be little comfort for the Comets. And, if the decision is taken to sign a replacement, that will still leave the team with a very difficult job, as Powell joins Barry Campbell and Darren Groves on Workingt🤡on's long term injured list.

The proble▨ms did not stop the Comets travelling down to Newport on Sunday afternoon, however, and the Cumbrian team was duly rewarded with a two point victory which sends them to the top of the Pre♒mier League.

In a separate incident on Saturday night, Stoke's Jaꦛn Staechmann collected a broken collarbone in their narrow victory over Sw🎶indon.