CRAIG WING'S comeback season with South Sydney may have lasted just eight minutes after the former international was forced from the field following an ugly tackle by his former Roosters teammates that Rabbitohs coach Jason Taylor claimed was a "cheap shot".

Wing was assisted to the sideline with a dislocated shoulder that will keep him out of action for at least six weeks - and maybe the season. While Roosters coach Brad Fittler and his players insisted they had not set out to deliberately target Wing, the NRL's match-review committee will study the incident on Monday to determine whether any charges should be laid against utility Riley Brown or any of his teammates.

Running the ball for the first time in the match, Wing was held up in a tackle by Braith Anasta and Anthony Tupou before Brown, who also failed to finish the match and said his recollection of the earlier incident was sketchy, came racing in and dropped his shoulder into the Rabbitohs playmaker's back.

As Wing slumped to the ground, some Roosters players appeared to clap. Taylor, however, said he did not believe the Roosters had specifically picked out Wing for special attention but maintained it was a "cheap shot".

"Absolutely," he said. "They deliberately held him up so the other player could come in and hit him with his shoulder in the back. If you look at it closely - and I don't know who it was - you can see the eyes light up, saying to the other bloke, 'I've got him. I'm holding him up. Get him'. There's a lot being talked about about cleaning up the game with grapple tackles and that sort of thing. Wayne Bennett talked long and hard at the coach's meeting in November how he hates the way we coach players to hold up other players so someone can come in and whack 'em and drive 'em back.

"In the rules of the game, he didn't do anything wrong. He came in with his shoulder in the back but it's about fair play and sportsmanship. In 1980, that was done every tackle. But we're trying to clean the game up and go forward. It was a cheap shot."

However, Wing said he doubted the act was premeditated.

"We started it at the Roosters. It's an interesting tactic and it worked I guess but I think that's more to try and drive a player back than put a cheap shot on him," Wing said. "If you can hold someone up and get a third man in and drive them back, it's a good tackle. I'm sure that they probably wanted to put a little extra into each tackle I was in … If I was in the same position I probably would have done the same thing. It's just unlucky on my behalf."

Wing will go for scans today to determine the seriousness of the injury and Rabbitohs athletic performance director Errol Alcott said if the injury wasn't too severe he may be able to treat it with physiotherapy and rest for six weeks but there was the chance of season-ending surgery.

A "devastated" Wing revealed medical staff had not been able to pop the shoulder back in place until he had returned to the dressing room. "I heard it pop and I knew I had done my shoulder then," said Wing, whose left arm was in a sling. "To say I'm gutted would be an understatement."

Fittler said he felt sorry for Wing but was confident none of his players had done anything wrong. "It might sound cruel … but that's rugby league," Fittler said.