After coming home from France and reading that Agar had said the injuries to Berrigan and Yeaman sum up our season, it got me thinking, and have we really had an injury ‘crisis?’
At some point in the season, Agar has dropped Whiting, Hall, Maloney, Houghton, Lee, Burnett and most shockingly Calderwood despite them putting in good performances, in some cases very good performance. Hall was dropped without having played in the centres and been played very much out of position to cover injuries. Yet the likes of Raynor, Yeaman, the Hornes, Berrigan (while at hooker, before his switch to scrum half), King, Tickle, Radford and Manu have all kept their places in the side despite been woeful for whatever reason. This shows to me that Agar has had a lot of scope to chop and change the side over the past season but has done so awfully.
Also, looking at the spine of the side (1, 6, 7, 9, 13), only at fullback have we not had what Agar would consider his first choice players (R.Horne, Thorman, Berrigan, and Radford) for most of the season, even then we have had our first choice fullback for half the season when Tony came back and with Tansey joining not long after Tony got injured again.
For a team to have an injury situation to be described as a ‘crisis’ it has to have a much worse injury situation in comparison to the majority of the other teams in the league. Has this really been the case? For me, the injury situation we have had this season is nothing compared to last year, and is something that the club are trying to hide behind so they don’t have to fork out again for hiring the wrong coach for the third successive time. How many agree, or despite what people may think of the coaching staff and the players at the moment, do people think that injuries have still hit us hard and affected us badly?

ssshhhhhh don't mention the emperor is wearing no clothes.

Just as a matter of interest, what do you feel [iwould [/iconstitute an injury crisis? Because if having 10 or 11 first team players out at one time (a few of them long term) doesn't I'd be really interested to know what does.

www.sporthull.co.uk/headlines/Br ... ticle.html Looks like our run of bad luck continues

www.sporthull.co.uk/headlines/Br ... ticle.html Looks like our run of bad luck continues

1) Having the spine of your team out for long periods of time
2) Not been able to chop and change throughout most of the season
3) Having to play reserve team players quite a bit
4) Having many more injuries than most other teams in the league

So.... are you disagreeing with yourself then?