Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:03 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

He looks such an athlete Havard that you half wonder if he'd be less at risk if he let himself go a bit! If this is on the other hamstring from the injury at the end of 2023, hopefully it might sort it all once and for all.

Can anyone remember how long he was out with the last hamstring injury?

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:15 pm  

Fujiman wrote:

Can anyone remember how long he was out with the last hamstring injury?

Grand Final through to mid April I think.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:16 pm  

Fujiman wrote:

Can anyone remember how long he was out with the last hamstring injury?

Hw got the injury in October 2023 Grand Final v Catalan and returned in late April 2024, so that's about six months.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:26 pm  

Fujiman wrote:

Can anyone remember how long he was out with the last hamstring injury?

His return was at HKR on 26th April from what I can see, so he missed about 6 months and 2 weeks. Fingers crossed it's not as severe as that one but the indications seem to suggest it may be.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Feb 12, 2025 5:28 pm  

Not sure on time scale as the one he got in GF was on top of an operation he had been returning to early from with hindsight. If it’s the same one as Bevan and Jai suffered it will be some time though. I seem to think Jai was injured first game and was back playing towards the later end of Summer from memory.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Feb 12, 2025 5:41 pm  

That Mon wrote:

Not sure on time scale as the one he got in GF was on top of an operation he had been returning to early from with hindsight. If it’s the same one as Bevan and Jai suffered it will be some time though. I seem to think Jai was injured first game and was back playing towards the later end of Summer from memory.

Barely. I think he played about a game and a half and looked completely shot. He needed another pre season to get back to full fitness.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Feb 12, 2025 6:36 pm  

From a glass half full point of view, if you were looking at the squad and had to pick a position where we had to pick up a knock then it would be prop.

It’s obviously not ideal, but another positive spin is we get a player back who will be very fresh for the second half of the season.

It’s got to be gutting for the lad though and obviously a blow for the start of the season.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:25 pm  

jonh wrote:

From a glass half full point of view, if you were looking at the squad and had to pick a position where we had to pick up a knock then it would be prop.

It’s obviously not ideal, but another positive spin is we get a player back who will be very fresh for the second half of the season.

It’s got to be gutting for the lad though and obviously a blow for the start of the season.

We should be ok. After all, we are buying Matty Lee's out of his 1 year Saints option so he can probably fill in

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Feb 12, 2025 11:55 pm  

[Gareth] wrote:

We should be ok. After all, we are buying Matty Lee's out of his 1 year Saints option so he can probably fill in

Somebody on RedVee said they'd want £2m to let him go a year early

Imagine shelling out a fee that is nearly five times the British transfer record, simply to get Matty Lees a year early He's a good superleague player Lees but I get the feeling a couple of clubs (and his agent) are driving up what Saints will need to pay to keep him (which I'm sure they will). Lees could really come up trumps financially from Knowles expected exit.