vastman wrote:
Trojan Horse wrote:
That’s the first thing I thought. How can one club be so very unlucky consistently over 2 seasons with injuries I don’t know.
I also have him down as the most obvious replacement for Tupou. Lad shows a lot of promise. I hope this doesn’t hinder his progress but players luckily can come back just as strong these days.
Maybe because we were so lucky with injuries in 2016/17/18, but yeah it seems we are paying an overly heavy cost.
On the plus side as a club, we must be experts in treating and rehabilitating ACL injuries!
I honestly can’t understand it. All talk the weeks running up to round 1 we had a clean bill of health and over the course of 6 games we’ve had to do without 10+ players and had to play players out of position and even bring in loan players. There must be some contributory factors.
Some of it I feel lies in the new rules and the fact more stress is put on players bodies with less recovery time between sets/ in matches.
Luckily though as you say, we have become experts in ACL management with a Tupou, Arona, Arundel last few years. Armed with information you have to be positive the lad can push through this.
