Re: Enough is Enough : Sun May 15, 2011 12:20 am  

McClennan wrote:

I understand that but we don't know anything about the injuries so why point the finger in the direction of something we know nothing about? For all we know the physios may be the best in the game and it's just a bad run of injuries. Stuff like that happens and there's nothing we can do about it. You're looking for blame when there might well be no blame there and what purpose does that serve?

So apparantly its a sort of "s*it happens - doh" according to you?

Problem is why is s*it happening to us a great deal more than to other SL teams?
Its worth looking for the answer rather than taking your fatalistic attitude.

Re: Enough is Enough : Sun May 15, 2011 1:33 am  

saint at wire wrote:

So apparantly its a sort of "s*it happens - doh" according to you?

Problem is why is s*it happening to us a great deal more than to other SL teams?

How do you know that it is a problem with the physio?

Re: Enough is Enough : Sun May 15, 2011 6:44 am  

I remember last year before the challenge cup final Tony smith said his players were conditioned to collisions similar to 50mph car crashes as that is the intensity of the challenge cup final. Maybe that is why you don't see them and some other teams take so Many contact injuries

Re: Enough is Enough : Sun May 15, 2011 7:19 am  

Hay up Saddened ....Dont start moaning about injuries deal with it..

Re: Enough is Enough : Sun May 15, 2011 7:53 am  

McClennan wrote:

I understand that but we don't know anything about the injuries so why point the finger in the direction of something we know nothing about? For all we know the physios may be the best in the game and it's just a bad run of injuries. Stuff like that happens and there's nothing we can do about it. You're looking for blame when there might well be no blame there and what purpose does that serve?

The physios are the only constant - last 2 years we were blaming MP and the fact that the players were over weight and unfit, now under Royce there is no doubt they are "fitter" but suffering more and more with injuries.

This isn't just a bad run.

Re: Enough is Enough : Sun May 15, 2011 8:45 am  

steve wrote:

The physios are the only constant - last 2 years we were blaming MP and the fact that the players were over weight and unfit, now under Royce there is no doubt they are "fitter" but suffering more and more with injuries.

This isn't just a bad run.

It's really pi$$ed me off when everyone was bagging potter for the injury situation over his two years! And here we are half way thru royces first season and they are worse than ever.

Has any thought, it might not be the coach?

It's pretty obvious it's nothing either coach did wrong.

Re: Enough is Enough : Sun May 15, 2011 8:46 am  

we are all saying wait till we have most of the players back, but will this happen. so we get 3 players back then low and behold 2/3 players get injured in same game so back to square one. i dont think we have gone a game without us losing players every game. getting fed up of going to every game knowing more players are going to be injured and none returning.

Re: Enough is Enough : Sun May 15, 2011 8:56 am  

knickers wrote:

we are all saying wait till we have most of the players back, but will this happen. so we get 3 players back then low and behold 2/3 players get injured in same game so back to square one. i dont think we have gone a game without us losing players every game. getting fed up of going to every game knowing more players are going to be injured and none returning.

The key thing is to get the so called better players playing and the halfbacks.

I'm sure yesterday would have been a different game if two of lomax, Pryce or eastmond, Gaskell or wheeler was fit to play 6 and 7.

Re: Enough is Enough : Sun May 15, 2011 8:59 am  

St pete wrote:

It's really pi$$ed me off when everyone was bagging potter for the injury situation over his two years! And here we are half way thru royces first season and they are worse than ever.

You're missing the point. Royce cannot pinpoint a trend - he identified that himself, saying if it was quads, hamstrings or something then they could change what they are doing. Last season WAS quads! It was our trendy injury, do you not remember? There was a pattern to our injuries last season: they tended to be muscular. In Royce's book, that would mean something needed to change. This year, though, they are not all muscular. Only a very few are: three groins (though Perry is over his) and one hamstring. All the rest are contact injuries.

We remind me of Hull a few seasons ago. They were decimated by injuries and plummeted down the table. We could go the same way unlesss things change very, very quickly.

Re: Enough is Enough : Sun May 15, 2011 9:06 am  

Saddened! wrote:

The injuries are, IMO, the result of our recruitment policy. Rather than recruit senior pros we have replaced senior players and legends with kids.

Part of the problem with this is the new Stadium.
As we at the All Stars know, for the season preceding and a few years after the stadium does affect the balance sheet. Which leaves less for recruitment. Its a pain worth bearing because once the stadium is up and running you will reap the benefits for decades to come.