Wests Tigers are sweating on the fitness of forward leader Aaron Woods ahead of their clash with the monster Canterbury pack on Friday.
Woods was limping and in a knee brace at a Tigers recovery session on Monday.
The Tigers prop is scheduled to have scans on his right leg on Monday afternoon after jarring his knee in the side’s 20-6 loss to South Sydney on Sunday.
Woods told reporters he would be right to face the Bulldogs but spent the recovery session receiving treatment from a Tigers physiotherapist away from the main playing group.
Woods has run for over 200 metres in all three of the Tigers’ three games this season and his go-forward would be badly missed against the formidable Bulldogs pack at ANZ Stadium.
“(Woods) has been a massive part of our go-forward and if we lose him then it will be a massive loss,” Tigers five-eighth Mitchell Moses said.
“It’s going to be a big test this week, it was a massive test yesterday with their big pack and I thought we handled (Souths) not too bad but they probably got over the top of us towards the end and held the ball.”