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London Broncos 28

Warrington Wolves 24

WARRINGTON Wolves will be without the services of forward Paul Wood when they play their first home game of Super League X against Leigh Centurions on Sunday.

Wood was stretchered off the Griffin Park pitch with ankle ligament damage only 22 minutes into Wolves' 28-24 defeat by London Broncos on Sunday.

He had been on the field as a substitute for only five minutes when he collided with his own teammate Logan Swann while tackling London Broncos full back Zebastian Luisi.

It was first feared that Wood, who played through much of last season with a busted shoulder, had broken his leg but on Monday X-rays revealed ligament damage and he will be sidelined for three to four weeks.

Wolves head coach Paul Cullen decided not to select Paul Noone at the weekend so that the loose forward had an extra week's recovery from the nasty eye injury which he sustained against Widnes Vikings on December 28.

Jon Clarke was handed the job at the rear of the scrum, Mark Gleeson started at hooker and 18th man Graham Appo was drafted on to the bench.

Wolves had the worst possible start in the capital when a deflected long kick produced a 42 seconds try for Broncos' Australian debut stand off Luke Dorn.

The recovery was swift as tries by prop Mark Hilton, scrum half Nathan Wood and substitute forward Ben Westwood handed Wolves a 16-6 advantage.

Paul Sykes' touch down shortly before half-time put Broncos back in the hunt and Solomon Haumono's score four minutes into the second half left Wolves 22-20 behind and on the back foot.

Centre Martin Gleeson, on his senior Wolves debut, kept his team's fuse burning after the break but London had replies from captain Mark McLinden and loose forward Rob Purdham to keep their noses in front.