I think what happens when you go through an injury crisis is that when you are in the early stages of it players dig in and a bit of a backs to the wall mentality kicks in, you win games that you don't expect to given the players you have missing. Then when you get to a stage when a couple of players come back into the side, expectations are high and you have a bit of a slump. This is all the more frustrating because the fans think that 'if we can beat X-Y-Z with all those players missing we should be winning now with bodies back' this makes it harder to swallow when you lose a few.

Whatever the reason for the slump when players are back (wear and tear on the non injured players/players rushing back to early) it's a pattern you see repeated.

I think we're in our post injury crisis slump, need to get ourselves out of it quickly before we get dragged into the dog fight and pressure starts to build from the teams below and around us.

Fifita is the only one who looks able to manage the reduced interchanges, and is pretty much carrying the pack. No wonder he's injured

that deference will be gone next week when we get smashed by Warrington - very very worrying times..

We probably need to write off the Warrington game but we still have to field a match day squad.

A pasting due at Wire. We seem busted in every sense. No backs to the wall mentality visible or desire to defend.
Randal constantly injured, not value for money.
Pauli is a big lazy lump. England looks shot etc etc...
Lads clearly playing busted. Got away with it last 2 years so the focus dropped from the fitness regime but it seems to me the structure on the field is wrong.
Up the Trin.

Maybe Randell's op should have been sorted in the close season, if he was playing with it during the latter part of last season.

In all due fairness, since he came, he damaged ankle ligaments, right at the back end of 2017, and didn't really miss too many games.

He then came back and suffered severe knee ligament damage in the Boxing Day friendly.

At the end of the day, ligament damage happens to the best of them.

Wouldn't say he's always injured, and use him just yet as the scapegoat.

I do agree though, regarding Pauli, and just think Englands best days are behind him, and if we do keep him, purely as a back up prop