I hear Dane Manning has broken his jaw.

Big blow for you guys, he has to be the number 1 second row in the Championship for me.

Best by some distance in my opinion.

I hope not he has been Mr Consitency and our best player for me, if he is out we aint gonna win the play offs.

My thoughts exactly fax4life, if Manning is out we can kiss good by to the play offs, he is a tackling machine and without him nulling the threat of Kain in the nrc I doubt we would have won that game. With Divorty, Robinson and Morrison already out that would be our complete back row injured.

Gutted.
We seem to have had some major injuries throughout this season and to lose, in my opinion, our player of the season, at such a critical stage just makes me wonder if its not our turn for the play offs this year?
If we do get there it will have been a hell of an achievement.As was winning the Northerrn Rail, ticking the Super League application box,being in the top 2 for most of the season-all in our first season with a new coach and team.
Whatever happens boys well done.

I hope thats no right, Danes a cracking lad and a superb player.

Nobody likes to see a team lose key players or any players through injury , but its part and parcel of the game , we at Leigh have lost Rob Parker , for the season , and against Fax we have now lost Sam Hopkins our stand out forward this season , for the rest of the year , it happens .

Is that your number 13? He went off injured late on against us and was very impressive?
We now have Nanyn;Morrison;Divorty;Robinson and Manning on long term injury list by the look of it. Roll on next season -will be like having new players for 3 of these.

Sam Hopkins was no.13 against you. We have lost Bibey this season, as he was forced to retire. We have now lost the equally experienced prop, Rob Parker for the year. Jimmy Taylor has hardly played all year for us and we have now lost Hopkins for the season. In addition, Duffy has missed lots of games through injury. You could have got a very good side out of all the Leigh players missing last night, that I saw in the crowd. It is just part and parcel of the game really and we all just have to get on with it I suppose.

No word from the club, no mention in the courier?
Could you have heard wrong?

if owt in courier u wont see it for another week,

I had a corperate place at the CC Final yesterday and when walking up Wembly Way there was a group of a few Fax fans with connections to the club.

The direct question was asked to one of the group.
Has Dane Manning broken his jaw.

The answer was a straight "Yes".
No further details or comment about the injury just a yes.

Did you expect her to evade the question ?

I didn't expect anything because I didn't ask the question but I heard the reply.

I was simply answering halifaxjohn who wondered with having no official statement from the club whether the original poster had heard wrong.
I used the term "being close to the club" as opposed to "---" to avoid any problems for someone if it was not supposed to be released at this time.

The emphasis on the "yes" because it was the truth without putting words in someones mouth and merely to show that there was no comment on such things as.

How it happned.
How serious it was.
Estimated time out etc.

Is that okay and clear enough?

I hit him
It was a serious altercation
3 months for him (12 years for me).

Sorry I have dented our GF hopes.

Many thank's for clearing it up.
Bad news indeed.

My sides are splitting

Good to read you Tony. I thought you'd died.

No.

I wouldn't think that a physiotherapist could possibly give a timescale for a broken jaw to recover somehow


If i'd been in that group of people i'd have told you all a few porkies to see if it made it onto the messageboards ( not for the 1st time )

There you go. Bad news. m.halifaxcourier.co.uk/sport/hal ... -1-4870482

There you go. Bad news. m.halifaxcourier.co.uk/sport/hal ... -1-4870482

Timescales in a sporting context are measured in how it affects the rest of the campaign or carreer and not in days, weeks, months etc and anyone close to the club would have known that information.

The how,why how long etc is a natural piece of info that others would like to know about.
That's why KH has included it in his statement.

How would it look if he said well we don't know how it happened, how bad it is or how long he will be out for.

As I said I did not ask the question, did not know the question was going to be asked or who was being asked untill after the event and was not concerned with the answer either way, it was either true or not true and because of the "porky factor" that you have mentioned.

That's why I was carefull with what I posted.
If the boards were only to be used for 100% nailed on factual truth then there would be about 2 posts every decade and no one would be on them.

Who cares anyway things always come out eventually.
In this case the original rumour was correct and the club has verified the circumstances and the implications.

The lad has broken his jaw and I wish him all the best he's been a stand out all season and will be missed but we will have to go with what we have.

I heard he got blind~sided whilst out in Batley on Saturday night.

HE HE HE the plot thickens, surely you mean the saturday prior to the Wembley match and not after it

Well done for dropping a .............. in the dog doo. To be fair, you needn't have said ............, you could have just said 'one of the group'.

I don't see why this would be such a massive secret. It's harfly a re-run on the Ostick incident.

Half of the loverugbyleague.com Stadium by half time of our game against York.