Chris71:




To be fair losing Cust and Cartwright didn’t help us. Considering Watts hadn’t played a SL game until Friday night he did a job. When you take both Ese ese & Knight off we are naturally going to lose a little go forward. Think we are also missing the work rate of Aydin. 

The good thing is we have a coach in Cartwright were anything that is not good enough is not lost on him and will be worked on as we have seen since game 1. 





Cas is another test on our journey in that we now face a team that was ranked as a struggler like ourselves at the season start, but we have put some performances together and surprised a fair few. We’ve not gone in as favourites to any game as yet but against Cas we will be seen as favourites. 


We’ve managed to get a result at Wakey after the emotions of beating Wigan in the CC, now the test is not taking Cas lightly and doing the job there.
How many times have we seen games we should have won then put in a shocking performance. 


Hopefully complacency will not be an issue at all. 




its also the fact that even with the most hardened professional the thought of what's coming the following will perhaps weigh heavy on their minds. 

bonaire:



We had a disussion a few days ago about players wearing coverings or some kind of thermal pants to cover their hamstrings.
Notice Tom johnstone the Wakefield wing was wearing them last week.
I think all players who are susceptible to Hamstring injuries especially in the winter months should wear them
Hi 

We did have that discussion and I get your point of view but there are reasons why they don’t all wear hamstring or calf supports. I’m going to try to dig out the research before the year is out may also look for the headgear thing as well. Sometimes things are counterintuitive hence we have to trust medical/strength & fitness staff. Perhaps we should all be less critical of such things  without full knowledge. Not saying ur criticising  as I get ur 

Jake the Peg:

I was hoping the injury situation would I prove this year with better fitness and conditioning but seemingly not

TnT:



This is because you will always get a level of injuries in rl inspire of the best conditioning. Multi factorial I think- age, fatigue, fitness, hormonal - men too, prev injury, rehab. Etc etc. All clubs have injuries. strength in depth is what coaches aspire to but there’s salary cap issues. See HDM article re Rovers lack of academy prospects. It suggests their success may be short term. Hardakers situation if a muscle strain maybe similar to Jed Cartwrights. But we don’t know the nature of problem 

Jake the Peg:



You'll always get a level but we seem worse than most, certainly lying the Dobbins are faring better than us and will likely to be able to field a team nearer full strength than us for the Derby unless they suddenly get a stack of injuries this weekend