Re: Good news : Sat Aug 17, 2019 4:06 pm  

DizzyHeights wrote:

Definitely not in a boot anymore so where you’ve got this information I don’t know?

Unless it was a trendy sneaker he had on earlier this morning in the Village hotel, it was certainly a protective boot.

Maybe, just maybe he’s been advised to put it back on....

The team were using the pool and business hub this morning, at the village.

Re: Good news : Sat Aug 17, 2019 4:48 pm  

karetaker wrote:

I’d rather none of them played, if we have ambitions of winning the Grand Final I would want them all fit to aim for that.

I think we have had a personality transplant because I can’t see us getting near the GF let alone winning it. At some point to win games you have to be able to score tries and we look less able to do that by the week, whatever the hallucinogenically enhaced Duck might think.

Re: Good news : Sat Aug 17, 2019 5:41 pm  

He's definitely walking around without a boot. Drove past him in Stockton heath on Wednesday. He was limping heavily though so not convinced he'll make Wembley.

Re: Good news : Sun Aug 18, 2019 3:47 pm  

Jack Napier wrote:

I never doubted that he'd play, but that's not really the issue for me.

If he's playing on one leg then he's not going to be very effective.

The question for me if whether he'll play because he's fit or play because we're desperate.

We'll only find out next Saturday.

Feels like that time Leeds played Hull in the CC at Cardiff. The chat all week was would Senior make it, would Leeds do everything they could to get him out there.

They did, Senior was unfit and a liability, Hull beat them and TS copped a lot of criticism for pushing him out there unfit.

Could be a similar narrative for us if we lose on Saturday - "why didn't we give someone else a chance rather than push Austin out there to go through the motions so he could have his day out at Wembley".

Re: Good news : Sun Aug 18, 2019 3:55 pm  

WazzaWire wrote:

He's definitely walking around without a boot. Drove past him in Stockton heath on Wednesday. He was limping heavily though so not convinced he'll make Wembley.

Going around saying "phew, my leg hurts" wouldn't even fool Baldrick!

Re: Good news : Sun Aug 18, 2019 5:15 pm  

Leave him out and get him ready for the grand Final with Charnley, If he's not 100% fit don't risk him.

Re: Good news : Sun Aug 18, 2019 6:42 pm  

Been told today that the chances of Austin playing is 'unlikely'.

Re: Good news : Sun Aug 18, 2019 6:42 pm  

Been told today that the chances of Austin playing is 'unlikely'.

Re: Good news : Sun Aug 18, 2019 6:43 pm  

Or thane wrote:

Leave him out and get him ready for the grand Final with Charnley, If he's not 100% fit don't risk him.

Ah but, which Grand Final are you talking about? 2020? 2021? It sre as hell ain't gonna be 2019.

Re: Good news : Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:29 pm  

wigginswarrior wrote:

Ah but, which Grand Final are you talking about? 2020? 2021? It sre as hell ain't gonna be 2019.

All it takes is two or three freakishly good performances in September. Highly unlikely, but just because you're breathing down our necks doesn't mean we're a total write-off.

But like I say... highly unlikely!