Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:18 pm  

Ward stood down indefinitely

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:30 pm  

taxi4stevesmith wrote:

Ward stood down indefinitely

Source?

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:33 pm  

LeedsLurch wrote:

Source?

Radio Leeds

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:18 pm  

What the implications of this? Why so formal as to say hes stood down indefinitely...

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:26 pm  

Trebor1 wrote:

What the implications of this? Why so formal as to say hes stood down indefinitely...

Because they have no idea when he will be ready to play. Currently every single time he tries doing any exercise he is getting blurred vision and dizziness so Club are sending him to a top specialist in London who dealt with several RU players last season, some of whom didn’t recover from their symptoms for 3 months

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:29 pm  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/rugby-l ... 2wRpN0ZdkY Ward out for a while from the looks of it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/rugby-l ... 2wRpN0ZdkY Ward out for a while from the looks of it.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:45 pm  

cheekydiddles wrote:

Because they have no idea when he will be ready to play. Currently every single time he tries doing any exercise he is getting blurred vision and dizziness so Club are sending him to a top specialist in London who dealt with several RU players last season, some of whom didn’t recover from their symptoms for 3 months

Oh dear. The lad has no luck. Great player but goodness me his body doesn't like playing RL

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:48 pm  

I really feel for Stevie, he puts 110% in every time he plays and he doesn’t catch a break from injury, maybe his body is just meant for this anymore, that’s a horrible thing to say as he is a great player. I hope they manage to sort him out and he gets better soon. Maybe he needs to be taken out of the pack and brewed as a centre.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:51 pm  

I’d imagine he will be back and fit in due course.

Some studies are showing links between playing contact sport/RL and increased risk of MND. It’s right that the sport takes brain injuries more seriously.

I suspect that we’ll see less of players on the field generally going forward. If they are better managed during their careers then maybe we’ll have a reduced number of lifelong injury conditions when they stop playing.

Flogging them until they fall apart isn’t really welfare-friendly and I suspect the sport is going to have to grasp this nettle.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Fri Feb 28, 2020 7:23 am  

sharky64 wrote:

I really feel for Stevie, he puts 110% in every time he plays and he doesn’t catch a break from injury, maybe his body is just meant for this anymore, that’s a horrible thing to say as he is a great player. I hope they manage to sort him out and he gets better soon. Maybe he needs to be taken out of the pack and brewed as a centre.

Spot on