hull kingston rovers‘ prop mose masoe is showing "signs of improvement" after sustaining a serious spinal pre—season friendly against wakefield trinity yesterday. the samoa international is "awake and alert" after having surgery overnight. rob burrow made an emotional 5 minute appearance for leeds rhinos yesterday. it was a sell—out at headingly for the match against bradford, a fundraiser for motor neurone disease research. burrowwas dignosed with the condition last year. he spoke to my colleague sally nugent a little earlier. the sport isn't the biggest but when something like this happens, rugby league, they all rally round and show support. absolutely unbelievable day i will remember forever. looking at these pictures, this must have been incredibly tough for you to do. it was. it was tough but it was great. my daughter and i took my son one last time whilst. took my son one last time you but it was great. my daughter and i took my son one last time you see you are in the early stages, how do you are in the early stages, how do you feel? my voice makes me looked really poorly but i fe

most of them have been to see mose masoe and they all feel better for that because mose masoe is so specialorld. it is also for his children and his children‘s future. we are not to know how long this is going to take. it is going to ta ke this is going to take. it is going to take time. we are all hopeful it is going to be a speedy recovery. but what the recovery means, we are not sure. he has got young children and a young one on the way. he is going to need support and we are not sure about where he is going to get his income. all those things we are trying to make it as comfortable for his family and mose masoe‘s future, not only has immediate future. we wish him all of the best and a recovery and tony, thank you very much forjoining us. it is an incredible story and it is one of those things that touches a lot of people because anyone who plays sport of know someone who plays sport, it was such an innocuous tackle, and it is that feeling of it can happen to anyone. a games outside our studio right now is that it is very beautiful outside. —— a glimpse outside our studio. a moment of ti