paul stridgeon

overseen by Tony Smith director of coaching and rugby where the buck stops let's not get pedantic.

bad luck mainly, nothing to do with conditioning apart from possibly Bridge's, in regards to King's injury i'm surprised that more players are not injured by this sort of tackling. Something just irks me about a defending player tackling low around the legs (so the legs can't move) then another player tackles the upper body and drives the player backwards, if the player around the legs has a firm grip of the legs then the only outcome is for the leg to buckle and bend either one way or another.



In fact thinking about it, is it down to bad luck or suspicious methods of tackling by the opposition? I mean to get one of two serious/non serious injuries in one game is back luck but 5? Really????

Tony Smith is no mug, he will have his team (medical, conditioning and coaching etc) exactly how he wants them. I think Wire were just unlucky and hopefully you get the lads fit asap, I'm not like a certain minority of fans wishing injuries on others.

At the end of the day these next few days will be telling, once the initial reports have been looked at the medical team can look at it on Monday morning everything will be clearer (positive hopefully)

I was talking about this after the game..And i'm not pointing fingers at any particular team's players, but on occasions when a player is held round the legs and goes to his knees, there seems to be an eagerness creeping into some players to come in and hit them hard to the upper body and when they can't protect themselves, usually in way that the knee or ankle bends awkwardly...

Its not illegal but makes me wince everytime....

There is only Chris Bridge's injury that could possibly be down to conditioning.



Matt King - Ligament, that is caused by a jarring, twisting or pulling motion.

Lee Briers - Concussion, Impact to the head

Simon Grix - Dead Leg, Impact injury

Cooper - Dislocated shoulder, again impact and could happen at any time to any rugby league player given a bad angle.

Chris Bridge - Hamstring, could be done by conditioning, could be unlucky.



Judging off your lack of injuries from last year I would say your conditioners and fitness staff are excellent. So i wouldn't read too much into it if I was you, it's just awfully bad luck.

Just to round things off it sounds like Ben Evans could have picked-up a bad injury as well from the u20 report on the club website.

And so it begins

Saints Fan in peace and would like to say, after watching every game of the "magic" weekend it certainly wasn't magic for you. Having said that though didn't deserve to win your game, as you were for the most part of the game, flat, you didn't deserve the bad luck with the injuries sustained in your opening game of the season. I would like to hope that we will be playing your strongest available squad on Feb 25th and that it has the same drama as the game at the Halliwell Jones last August.

Bad luck is the main answer to this question. But ... and I have never seen any stats about ... do you get more injuries when you are losing? My gut feeling is when you are struggling in a game you pick up more injuries. When you are on top you get less. Has anyone any evidence to support this??



pete

It's just 99% luck. You can be the best conditioned, fittest players in the history of the world. Your ligaments can still be ruptured by you walking or getting out of bed, never mind wrestling with other 20 stone athletes like they do.



Warrington were very lucky with injuries last season. This year might not be your year for it. You could have a run like Hull did and have 9 or 10 players out at a time. It happens in the sport.

Let's not kid ourselves here..... yes, there were injuries, however before this our ball retention and discipline were poor. Huddersfield were the better team and beat us fair and square.



Early days and our title credentials will be questioned over the next few weeks. I'm sure we'll rise to the challenge