Seen a report on twitter that Tom has been stood down for 4 weeks due to repeated head injury/concussion.

While not great from a fan perspective it’s good to see the club looking after Toms welfare.

must be frustrating for Tom, second that

We certainly don't want a repeat of the poor young lad from Leeds ???, sorry forgot his name. I know a player recently had to retire due to continued head trauma, though I think Tom has just been unlucky, fingers crossed.

I believe it’s now an RFL directive that a player has to stand down for 4 weeks after two failed HIA’s in a short period of time. It’s good to see them finally taking it seriously, Stevie Ward is a perfect example of why it has to be done. I also imagine the legal action that 40 former players are taking against the RFL may gave focussed a few minds.

Perhaps if he wasn't doing more than his fair share of running the ball out of defence, he wouldn't get battered and injured so often.

Agreed he does but not the reason for the two HAI's he's had.

Anybody know if Liam Kay is injured or just out of favor, he is a player who always gives 100 %, scores tries for fun, is the best defender of all our wingers and if fit I am gob smacked Senior gets in the side ahead of him.

Meanwhile Willie Isa plays tonight against Leeds

Amazing how you seem to see a different player to almost everyone else. Kay has always been known as a poor defender and very poor under the bomb, you're right on the rest. Watch his first game for us against Catalan last year, he wasn't alone but his defending is non-existant.

He was injured last year but I think he's had a lot of Covid relayed lay offs hence he's not been available to train.

We just seem to be doomed when it comes to injuries with Tom , feels just like Nigel Wright .

It's good that Tom's health comes first.

Stevie ward who to be fair was like tom great player with huge potential too but never seemed to get a break with injuries

Gutted for tommy for him firstly with it been world cup year and of course the team qe dont have another winger any where near as good has him

To be fair Lee Kershaw is probably more suited to what we primarily ask our wingers to do.

At least one of those weeks is a CC weekend.

Agreed, sadly he is, Kershaw will run it up all day long and happily relieve the forwards of their duty. Seriously though, yeah he probably is.

Totally agree with this one. I would have used him last weekend too as we knew Catalans would mince us in the forwards. I think once Tupou is back we might have to look at Kershaw/Tupou/Arundel/Lyne as our back four for more games especially when we are light in the pack and coming up against a stronger set of forwards. I know Kershaw and Tupou have their weaknesses on the wing and Tupou is preferred at Centre but at least they could help our Full Back and forwards out on exit sets. They are less likely to be pushed back over their own line too meaning no repeat sets when we have ball in hand.

All what has been said on & about Tom, but, ask your self apart from an ugly my injury & injuries are a part of a rugby players life
When playing, so the but question is, how come an equal player & position at saints who keeps Tom out of internationals when both are fit, does the saints player never get head injuries like Tom but runs the ball in harder than Tom ?
My answer is Tom is more marked out for bad treatment & teams/players get away with their actions on Tom, Tom is not a dirty player
Yet, opposition players make sure by book of crook he will not take part, referees, do not protect him by applying the rules when needed !
So , my awful prediction is, Tom will not play a meaningful full season, he will continue to be attacked making injuries look like bad luck !

There was a time when Jonny Lomax was off the field more times than he was on it for Saints. Look at him now.

Perhaps Johnstone should start grabbing some balls.

Not disagreeing at all but it was a hospital pass from Tupou that ended his game v Catalans.

Hoping he will be ok and a quick speedy recovery. (Cas fan in peace)

Can Tom make an amendment to his contract to the effect of him being excused from games against either Wigan or Catalans?

Hope Tom is back soon there isn't many players now i would go out of my way to watch but whenever Wakefield are on Sky I love to watch Tom Johnstone a fantastic player bags of skill his finishing is absolutely top class. get fit soon Tom

It was but not by much. Tupou lost his bearings, had he been a yard closer to the line TJ would almost certainly have got the try.

I suppose it's a testament to the faith players have in TJ's ability that he let it go, just didn't work this time sadly.

On the subject of HIA’s how did the Hull KR number 4 stay on the field. I thought it was to avoid further damage that is a player shows sign of concussion they must leave the field to be accessed.
I wonder if KR will be fined like we were when we didn’t take Kirmond off quick enough.