Hopefully he can come back to full strength but like others have said the age of him and the injury looks likely he’ll not return. A lot of daft accusation being thrown around on social media about Knowles. I refuse to believe it was intentional. Cooper was still moving and was only a few inches from the line with 3 players on him. It was a stupid judgement call from Knowles to stop him. Some saints are showing lack of class and pointing out the daft knee slide on Knowles (didn’t happen) an singletons high tackle on a falling player. However Sironens two tip tackles were not flagged. smithies get a bad name from others on his so called dirtiness but the way Knowles keep Being flagged up he’s taking over

Cooper has confirmed in the Mirror that he’s looking to play on, hopes that’s at Wigan and is confident it will be.

Regardless of what happens in the future with Cooper, losing him this year is a huge hit. Probably the best front rower we had, consistent and someone who the younger forwards can follow. Losing Ellis and to a lesser extent Singleton has left us up against it.

The club will do everything they can to make that happen as well.

Good. He’s a solid prop forward and I’m glad he won’t retire off the back of this. Hopefully he comes back in as good a form as he was when he got injured, he’ll be like a new signing when he is back and a good boost at an important part of the season.

Now sent off for a crazy head high shot with 30 seconds to go in an already won cup tie.

No excuses can be made now.