Jason Smith wasn't injured, hth

I remember 2003 where we had a player break a leg every game for 3 weeks. I think Scott Logan was the only one to manage to carry on his career, but it took over a year and he had left us by then. Great prop!

Richard fletcher - one of the best prospects we produced in that same era. Jason smith rated him really high, but couldn't stop getting injured and his career was lost. Terrible luck. To bring us back to now, every year whiting gets a season ending injury too.

wasn't Fitz retiring anyways?

so was Galea, and we talked him out of it....f'k knows why!

if in doubt blame Galea

In fairness, just about everyone has been blamed at some point in the last couple of days.

The joke is on us, worst signing by anyone in SL even KR didn't want the .

Maybe not the worst KR did sign Caro

Who has scored more than Tom Briscoe

And the same number as Galea.

Martin Gleesons Stress/Slimfast related injury

And not to forget, weve all had a bad side for the past 6 years

Also James Webster and his visa issues . Crocker the same .

When was the season we had 3 out with broken jaws?

Am I missing something as I seem to remember Feildon sticking his knee in Smith's chest and putting him out for weeks which, in my book, means he's injured!

I don't believe in superstitions/curses and you can easily point the finger of blame at the club for many of the players listed in this thread.

Dykes famously wasn't given a medical, despite being old and already having a dubious fitness record.

We knew that Head coulden't train much during the week due to his fitness problems when we signed him (though saying that he's probably the most consistent No7 we've had since Brough!)

Sing, Fitzgibbon, Martin, Long, Blacklock & Domic were all the wrong side of 30 and had played hundreds of games for club and country when we signed them, they all had a lot of 'miles on the clock'

And how many of the list did we risk further injuries by playing the player under painkilling injections?

yes we've had a few examples of bad luck (Ellis trapping a ball and damaging his foot being one example) but in others you have to again look at the quality of our recruitment over the years.

No - you're not missing anything at all.

Poor recruitment the root of much of it

Dont think hes been that bad tbh , dont see what peoples problem is with him

He isnt Manu

Fielden got a two match ban and warned about lifting his knee into a tackling player's chest.

Jason Smith missed around four months with a shattered sternum, IIRC. The Doctor who examined the injury at the time said it was the worse of it's type he'd ever seen.

That's why I used the phrase "cheap shot merchant". Thuggish play from a player who would never take one anyone his own size.

Rubbish. He took on Willie Mason

Richard Swain? One of the games true iron men yet a career ending injury at Hull.