I see in the wail that green has ruptured his achilles and will need surgery meaning he likely won't be available for the start of 2019 which leaves us a senior prop short already for next season.

Sneyd has a different knee problem now and they are assessing it but doubt we'll see him again this year meaning we have abdul and harris for the last 5 games. Hopefully he doesn't need to go under the knife which could also see him doubtful for the start of next season.

connor, bowden, kelly, minichello and westerman all gone for the season.

Anyone know the situation with matongo, fash and hadley?

Taylor playing busted along with a few others no doubt.

radford alluded to something about us not being as resilient as other teams? Anyone know what he means? Surely if there are ways of making your players more resilient to injuries we should be doing them as a matter of course? We do seem to have really suffered with knee and lower leg injuries this year so maybe something in that?

Worst season for injuries since 2004 and maybe even worse than that year when we were flying high before the injury curse struck us

I for one would be more than happy to just write the season off and get everyone with injury's that need treatment off the field and under the knife if needed.

We need to start thinking about next year now.

I thought Bowden also would miss the start of next season? Even with Bowden and Green fit our pack lacks a prop of Watts' quality. And with Taylor potentially retaining his international place and Hadley, Fash, Matongoin the PNG tour train on squad and therefore without a rest/full pre season, it's hard to imagine a season where our forwards get off to a flying start. Chuck in the doubts over Kelly's head injury and it could be a long old off season.

In 2016 we had the same backroom staff and
Physios etc
Barely anyone missed a match

[quote="Jake the Peg"]I see in the wail that green has ruptured his achilles and will need surgery meaning he likely won't be available for the start of 2019 which leaves us a senior prop short already for next season.

Sneyd has a different knee problem now and they are assessing it but doubt we'll see him again this year meaning we have abdul and harris for the last 5 games. Hopefully he doesn't need to go under the knife which could also see him doubtful for the start of next season.

connor, bowden, kelly, minichello and westerman all gone for the season.

Anyone know the situation with matongo, fash and hadley?

Taylor playing busted along with a few others no doubt.

radford alluded to something about us not being as resilient as other teams? Anyone know what he means? Surely if there are ways of making your players more resilient to injuries we should be doing them as a matter of course? We do seem to have really suffered with knee and lower leg injuries this year so maybe something in that?

Worst season for injuries since 2004 and maybe even worse than that year when we were flying high before the injury curse struck us[/qu

I would also be checking the stud patterns on the boots to see if they are different to previous seasons

Designer boots certainly seem to have become the fashion recently.

I know players who have been told to stop wearing sock boots because their medical teams told them they contributed to their lower limb injuries. Plenty of players still wearing them though so I'm not sure there is specific evidence.

Green is 28 not pushed on for me don't think he will get another deal at the club unfortunately for him, we need another big prop to help Taylor out.