So in summary, we could have 7 doubtful for the opening round. That must be a record season-opening injury list.

oh no, not the injuries escuse again.............

Is there any chance of you posting that again in English ?

I don't feel we have heard that much about training this year . From fc website or HDM

Maybe not, but it's usually all pre season bollox stuff anyway that Smailes could write in October - no disrespect to him BTW, just that you could have expected the following:
We need to be more ruthless - check, Willie Manu
Players coming back from operations/rehab raring to go - check, Whiting, Yeaman
Pre season camp will be great for bonding - check, Whiting
Young player(s) seeking to break into the first team - check, Pearce, Nicklas
Fitness regime will be toughest ever -check, can't remember who
New signings very impressed with set-up - check, Sharp and Westerman
Not yet published:
Where we aim to finish (to be fair, FC don't often do this, more a KR/Morgan doing the double late January article)
Fans can make the difference
Pre season camp has been the best ever and we got loads done - thinking probably Fitz/O'Meley as we've not heard much from them.
Player X targetting international selection - probably Tickle and Houghton

Once you get to know Ginge,it is in fact easy to decipher,a bit like cryptic crosswords.

If I lived in Wiggin I'd be sick of it too

Still the intensive week in Wales to go as well. Feck.

Bring on Cardiff that's all i can say. Maybe we should cancel our pre-season friendlies for recovery time!

I'm glad people find this funny, personally I find it quite concerning, for a number of reasons:

1) We're heading, apparently, into the start of the season with senior players injured, said senior players having been released by previous clubs for the same or similar issues.
2) RH still isn't fit, he's had a full off season and yet still can't get to the line (if rumours are to be believed)
3) Berrigan has gone and we've just let him walk, no fee, no compensation.

So, I can't say as things look that positive, it's all well and good having £130k and a quota spot available, but that isn't going to do us much good when other teams half backs are ripping us a new a'hle!

Like I said a bit ago Standee it's not the first season it's happened.

We know we've got injury prone players, inexperience squad members outside our first 19, no cover for key positions.

Players have moved to other clubswho could have been very good signings for us.

The most important thing in life is to not expect to not make mistakes, but learn from them, it seems we as a rugby club haven't.

Such as?

We learn from some but not others, which gets hugely frustrating.

Indeed, it seems we learn from the fairly inocuous stuff and the major howlers pass us by.

We'll see what the season brings.

There's a full list of them Paul, don't get me wrong I don't know if they'd have signed or if they turned us down but good enough players have moved clubs.

Do you blame them? Even as an avid FC supporter, I'd rather sign for saints, wigan, wire or leeds at present if the money on offer was similar

There's one or two who have signed for lesser clubs than the ones you've named.

Anyway we can just signed loads of islanders now.

Still injured? Well who'd have guessed that?

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I think you're taking people laughing about our injuries in the wrong context. It's not the injuries that are funny, it's the fact that they happen to us every year! (and it's not funny in the ha ha sense!)

Make your mind up Standee, you said in the other thread we have set a moral precident by letting him go and that we should have let him go sooner.

As someone who claims to know so much about employement law you do come up with some contradictory sweeping generalizations !

I've heard a rumour that Westerman has suffered a serious knee injury recently, anyone heard anything?