NRL: Price injury adds to the Warriors' woes

Steven Price will miss this weekend's game against the Rabbitohs at Mt Smart. Photo / Getty Images

A throat injury has ruled out Warriors captain Steve Price from Sunday's game against South Sydney at Mt Smart Stadium.

Price's throat remains swollen 10 days after he received an accidental blow while making a tackle on Sea Eagles forward Jason King during the NRL win over Manly.

After visiting a specialist yesterday, Price was advised to miss at least one game. His condition will be reassessed next week. He and others on a casualty list that stretches to nine names are hopeful of returning for the trip to Newcastle in round five.

Wing Manu Vatuvei and bench utility Lance Hohaia, both with knee problems, plus second rower Ben Matulino and prop Mataupu Poching, who have ankle injuries, were ruled out this week but are all a chance to play the Knights.

Prop Leeson Ah Mau, out with a shoulder injury, should not be far behind them. There is still no definite prognosis for 2008 regular and Kiwis prop Evarn Tuimavave over his neck problem, while centre Brent Tate will have surgery next week on the anterior cruciate ligament he tore against Brisbane and will then get an idea of his recovery time.

Epalahame Lauaki continues to train with the squad but his new club, Hull, has asked the Warriors not to play him while he awaits an English work permit.

Sam Rapira and Russell Packer are the starting props against South Sydney. New signing Lewis Brown, 22, a hooker-back rower, and the Warriors under-20s captain from 2008, Daniel O'Regan, a lock/five-eighth, join a five-man bench.

The game is to be a celebration of the life of Warrior Sonny Fai, who was swept out to sea at Bethells Beach in January, with performances by Tiki Taane, Lapi Mariner and Rosita Vai as well cultural groups from Fai's school De La Salle College and the Otahuhu Samoan Methodist Church.

* Canberra bad-boy Todd Carney has hit the headlines in Australia again after a woman who took her mobile telephone to Telstra to be serviced found photographs of the tattooed halfback in the nude stored in the memory of the temporary replacement she was given.

Carney, who is banned from the NRL and was denied entry to Britain to play in Super League, is playing for the Atherton Roosters north of Cairns. He said he took the pictures himself to send to a girl with whom he was exchanging messages over the social network Facebook.

The Bulldogs have stood down Lee Te Maari, Ben Barba and Jamal Idris after the trio had a scuffle at a Wentworthville hotel.