Is he confirmed to be a Saints fan? Jesus christ I wish he'd shut up about St's injuries.

I know what you mean, he must mention it pretty much every 5 mins.

Can we email in and inform him we understand now and he doesnt need to go on about it anymore.

Was just about to post the same. Really irritating.

But Saints are the ONLY team to have had an injury crisis...

Ever.

Loves Sts HATES!!! Wakefield!!!

All clubs have injuries

Having quite so many at one time isn't normal though. We should know - as Barrie Mac reminded Hemmings, FC went through the same crisis two seasons on the bounce.

Only so long you can get away with playing the young kids week in and week out. Looks to have caught up with Saints tonight.

ten out apparently, Eddie just said so.

Let's see who they DID have:

Wellens
Gardner
Shenton
Meli
Roby
Graham
LMS
Perry
Soliola
Foster
Wilkin

Hardly a reserve team.

Just got back. Did he mention we had disruption before game?

Did he mention the 6 first choice players that the Giants have out injured.

when barrie mentioned that Hull FC would know what it was like with all these injuries, he screamed no-one has every had this many injuries

Indeed we went to Huddersfield in March without Sam Tomkins, Joel Tomkins, Martin Gleeson, Pat Richards, Brett Finch, Paul Deacon and Stuart Fielden and still won and in pretty good fashion as well.

Bottom line is Saints have a poor squad compared to the rest!

Saints must have been poor tonight if a player like Eorl Craptree can get a deuce.

I don't remember much sympathy for Leigh in 2005 when we had to use 38 players in the season due to injury , it's all part of RL

my mighty vikings also had a similair if not worse situation last season. but i too was getting very fed up with hemmings banging on about saints. obviously what we dont realise is ITS DIFFERENT when it happens to saints

While I agree that Eddie overkilled the injury situation, the number of injured players isn't the issue - it's where they've occurred. All of our halfbacks are out. Our top 6 halfbacks. That's not a poor squad, it's a freak occurence.

Start of the season, Pryce and Eastmond first choice.

Probably Lomax as back up.

Moore (hooker) or Wheeler (centre) could be used if essential, but it would leave us with gaps elsewhere.

Gaskell could be drafted in from the ressies in a dire emergency.

Instead, we lined up today with a second rower and an injured bloke no-one had heard of until a fortnight ago.
Now Ashe has seemingly been injured also, we're looking at Wilkin and maybe Wellens or Roby - none of whom are halfbacks and all of whom leave significant gaps in their true positions.

Not complaining, though - they are doing themselves proud and it will pay dividends in the long run.

Correct, it's hardly a reserve side but only having 17 fit each week prevents players from getting any rest and forces players to play longer mins than they should. Sia, Graham and roby have been putting in big mins as we not got anyone on the bench to replace them.

Also I'd say players are playing with knocks so unable to Gibraltar them healing time as were down to our barebones.

Eddie quoted ten out, I'm not sure that's true and pretty obvious all ten wouldn't have played.

IMO from our starting 17 we had wheeler, lomax, Pryce, Tony puletua, clough, Moore, flannery and maybe eastmond. So it's more like were missing 7 first teamers.

The lads have been going well but a heavy defeat has been on the cards for a while. Players out, playing with knocks, no resting players and a disrupted training can't be ideal.

On positive side and with little bit better luck we will hit the business end of the year with a very fresh and healthy squad and I'm pretty sure we will take some stopping.

Don't forget it's sky, eddie and the media making issue of our injuries and the the St Helens club.

It did get annoying and I'm a Saints fan.

But those above saying we didn't have many out and just have a bad squad need to look at the league table. 2 points off top spot with no half backs. We would be top

The mans a nob.

Phil Clarke?

The standard of commentary is poor and needs a complete overhaul. Phil Clarke is very knowledgeable on the game, but is very biased towards Wigan. Eddie is clueless and chats about inane things with Stevo and does seem to have bias towards St.Helens. Stevo for me can on occasions talk some sense, but he's now like an old record. He churns out the same lines (see Stevo bingo thread) and if he makes a point once - he makes it over and over again. Jon Wells' bit is the only piece I find very interesting.

Who is the thread about ?

Leeds had a fair few injuries at the start of the season too.

I actually turned the volume down as it was boardering on the absurb listening to him. He does think that ONLY St. Helens have had injuries. Don't get me wrong it's not nice having that many injuries but every other team suffers at some point.

EDDIE!! STFU!!!

It really doesn't matter what the game is,the commentary is always the same.Every kick from inside the 40,is an attempted 40/20,even if it lands next to the posts,every kick is a great kick,until it runs dead.Why on earth do they need four people in the commentary box,each trying to justify their presence.One of them should be restricted to the studio/presenter role and one should be the analyst - obviously not Stevo.Lets hope that if there is a new Sky RL contact,then they revamp the presentation.