A serious injury to Castleford's rising star Joe Westerman held up the Tigers' engage Super League encounter with St Helens for 12 minutes this afternoon.

The 19-year-old loose forward appeared to go into spasms after colliding with a Saints player in the first half at The Jungle.

He was eventually carried off on a stretcher after lengthy and careful treatment by at least eight medical or training staff.

Saints were leading 32-0 when the incident occurred after 29 minutes.

Just read this on teletext i hope Joe is alright and recovers soon, he is a real talent.

Hope he is alright and has a speedy recovery

It didn't sound good. Hope he's OK.

Hope he is ok.

Hope he is ok soon

Said on radio he has fully recovered and is fine, came from his parents.

Sound like good news hope he is fine

Joe Westerman, get well soon kid

Sorry to hear about Westerman, hope he makes a speedy recovery.

Glad to hear Joe's ok.

still cannot get the image of joe fitting on the field out of my head,lets hope and pray its not has serious has it looked at the time.

lol i want to play rugby league too and i here bout these injuries and poor tradgec (scuse spelling) deaths , r.i.p Leon Walker , and it puts me off but then Celtic Crusaders play awful it motivates me to play >.<

Good news.

Well i shall start by saying i expected us to lose 2day but was just looking forward to a good game and great weather which i got so not bitter at all. But i was disgusted by a comment from a saints fan stood behind me. When Westerman was announced as the man of match the saints fan came out with 'well thats how good they played'. I am a member of WYP so i managed to keep myself calm, but had i not been i would have cracked the guy. I felt sick as a pig, especially with the latest incidents in RL.