Yes, would have liked to see him get another run out but it looks like Hull have allowed the Academy lads to represent Yorkshire which is fair enough I guess.

Aftet watching him for the academy, Balmforth needs a good off season working on his fitness, think he will be ready next season if he does.

Mau another Hamstring setback,Tuimavave the same problem a couple of times.
They are trying to bring players back from Hamstring injuries too early and setting back the original injury several more weeks.
it would be nice to see Connor back but give him another week on the sidelines.
I dont know who our Physios are but it seems to me this area of the club needs to be overhauled by adding some more experienced sports injury personnel

Nothing has been announced yet and he's not exactly been ripping up trees lately. Plus if we need him off cap then he'll go to whoever will have him.

It's probably impossible to compare if we are worse than other clubs with injuries but if that can be established it may just be we have more injury prone players rather than inadequate treatment?

It does seem to happen every season and needs to be investigated.

Hull as far as am aware have top physios. Also I imagine they would take outside advice from top medical people. It's not like Hodgson will say to Connor how is it. The bloke at Asda said you looked ok so your playing Fri.

You have no idea if that's true. Why would they anyway?



You don't know who they are but you know that they're under experienced? And what are "sports injury personnel"?

Our lead physio is Chris John who has worked at top clubs in football, rugby union and rugby league.

He also launched his own company dealing with rehab and recovery from sports injuries.

I think he knows his stuff.

Nah, Bonaire says he should be binned, but if we go down that route, half the team and the coach would be gone. I really don’t understand why Pearson bothers.

To be fair I’m no medical expert but we do seem to have a regular issue with long term injuries and have done for years so certainly think it’s valid to question or look at the medical staff and how we prepare players. Whilst other clubs also suffer it does seem we seem to suffer year in year we can’t just purely be more unlucky.

I did read something a while back which was a study by a leading sports injury doctor who’d noticed an increase in lower leg, foot and ankle injuries. Following his study he’d concluded that whilst some where just unfortunate he believed that many were caused or due to the type of boot worn. He noted that a number of the new lightweight boots worn by players today offered little or no support which put the lower leg at a greater risk of injury. The worst offending boot were the blade type which he noted was the boot worn by almost all players that suffered knee and ankle injuries. Wish I could remember where I’d read it but it was a very interesting read especially as in regards to the subtle differences in stresses between football and rugby in the lower leg yet most of the boots worn today all had similar characteristics almost a one boot fits all.

So there’s a lot of different aspects that can be a cause or increase the risk. Maybe we just have a higher ratio of these things which culminate in more lower leg injuries compared to the law of averages?