RUGBY LEAGUE players are well-known for their toughness on the field.
They will run through brick walls for their peers next to them and often do so with knocks and bruises of their own.
For former Wigan Warriors star John Bateman, the weekend was particularly painful with the now Wests Tigers forward suffering a rib cartilage injury in the 2Already a subscriber? Log in here
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