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These injuries and little niggles are becoming abit of an irritation. It's not that the squad can't cope really but alot of players seem as though they're going to be going into the season abit rusty without much of a pre season under their belts and in the long term that could catch up with us.

Unlike Leeds last year though we'll just crack on and you won't hear a word from within the club about the injuries we've got.

FB 19 Roberts
RW 2 Goulding
RC 25 Charnley
LC 4 Carmont
LW 24 Marsh
SO 1 Sam
SH 6 Deacon
P 14 Prescott
H 7 Leuluai
P 15 Lima
SR 21 Mossop
SR 12 Joel
LF 13 O'Loughlin

S 3 Gleeson
S 9 McIllorum
S 10 Coley
S 16 Hoffman
S 22 Farrell
S 23 Tuson
S 29 Crosby

18th man: 30 Powell
19th man: 28 Walker

bring Gleeson on for Sam, that way they only have to play half a game each, minimises the risk while giving them a bit of game time. If one is too injured to play 40 mins give Powell his big break, Walker too if both are ruled out.

To be fair to them it was not the Leeds club that kept bringing up their injuries.

It was the media that kept making constant and unnecessary reference to it and refused to give credit when teams such as Crusaders beat Leeds. Harry Gration probably being the worst culprit (even when Sinfield refused to blame injuries for loss of form and defeats on the Super League Show).

The media(well Eddie and Stevo) never stopped banging on about it but it wasn't all just the media. I remember McLennan coming out in the press and blaming the sides injuries for their poor preformences and he said he hoped other clubs would start to suffer the same problems.

All class that bloke.

Is the pre season becoming to intense?? Finch injured in training and now Tomkins and Gleeson who had no problems at the back end of the season with injury.

If there are any players with niggling injuries then don't play them on Sunday. We need them more in two weeks than for a friendly, another two weeks rest will probably do them more good, there's a l-o-o-o-o-n-g season ahead.

I heard that Tomkins was injured during the Five Nations. Not sure about the others.

Not been straying to the dark side during the off season have we?

You know what I mean.

Didnt Davies do his jaw in training as well. Must be fairly goin for it!

Spot on. As much as the practice might help, it's lunacy to risk someone with a slight injury in a testimonial.

I was thinking the same, and Hansen & Davies can be added to the list.

To me it sounds lunacy to have such a hard pre season if there getting injuries

Isn't Finch's injury the same as what kept him out of his last couple of Melbournes games?

and yet our league victory was widely attributed to flogging the lads during the last pre-season. In 2010 it led to us winning four in a row in our opening games, our best start to a season since 1998, co-incidence? I doubt it. If you want to win the league you have got to hit the ground running. Perhaps the balance needs to be re-addressed but I'd hardly call a hard pre-season lunacy when the rewards are so obvious.

I agree with Grimmy.



Time to lie down in a dark room.

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.

He did nothing of the sort, he maintained throughout that yes we did have injuries, it was clear to see, but at no point did he say it was the reason for our poor form. He was far from perfect but he always gave credit to the better side and didn't blame this on injuries.

Spot on.

For all we know, the injuries picked up in training could be simply a case of bad luck.

Hansen and Davies are the only players to get their injurys during training, Fielden & Sams was from the 4nations, Finch's is a reoccurance from last season & Pats was obviously from the Grand Final. As for Gleeson, well lets not go there again..

And considering Davies has a broken jaw, it's not exactly an endurance issue.

Pm?

Injury fears eased here slightly - looks likely that Tomkins, Gleeson, Fielden and Hansen may be OK for the 1st game of the season.

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Looks like Gleeson and Sam won't be fit for the Warrington game, from what Madge says here. wiganwarriors.com/WContent.aspx? ... &type=news

Looks like Gleeson and Sam won't be fit for the Warrington game, from what Madge says here. wiganwarriors.com/WContent.aspx? ... &type=news