: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:37 pm  

Wigan Bull wrote:

The "Edwards" season

Coupled with a shedload of injuries, many of which were never made public at the time for obvious reasons.

Mind you, you only had to see the hatred that Leon was showing to Harris - when the latter was trying to tell the former where to position himself behind the sticks at Fev in the cup in 2005 - to see the Edwards effect was not wholly confined to 1998.

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:38 pm  

Adeybull wrote:

Coupled with a shedload of injuries,

More bad luck?

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:42 pm  

tigertot wrote:

More bad luck?

Nah, the bad luck was getting the Scumster for the play-off at KR end of that season. We went there with (I think it was ) nine first-teamers out through injury, yet were STILL winning till the Scumster send Penguin off for nothing. (Ruled "no case to answer afterwards). Then did not penalise Aitcheson for tripping Robbie on his way to the line. THAT was bad luck!

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:46 pm  

This thread has made interesting reading. I think the main lesson it has to offer, which we may all take forward into our daily lives, is that a faulty washing machine is a poor analogue for a rugby league team.

Amen.

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:48 pm  

El Diablo wrote:

This thread has made interesting reading. I think the main lesson it has to offer, which we may all take forward into our daily lives, is that a faulty washing machine is a poor analogue for a rugby league team.

Amen.

Indeed.

The faulty washing machine won't belt you back when you bray hell out of it with a club hammer...

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:50 pm  

tigertot wrote:

More bad luck?

We had 3 or 4 knee reconstruction injuries that year. Wasn't Anderson or Fielden injured in a pre-season friendly. The injuries crippled our season literally that year.

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:52 pm  

bullfan away wrote:

We had 3 or 4 knee reconstruction injuries that year. Wasn't Anderson or Fielden injured in a pre-season friendly. The injuries crippled our season literally that year.

Anderson Jowett and Peacock all did cruciates that year.

Fielden came in to beef up the front row when we went even more down on numbers by the time we played Leeds at Headingley in April (was it)?

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:07 pm  

bullfan away wrote:

We had 3 or 4 knee reconstruction injuries that year. Wasn't Anderson or Fielden injured in a pre-season friendly. The injuries crippled our season literally that year.

Speaking of which: Did you know that the elephant is the only animal with four knees. It would therefore be possible for an elephant to have 3 or 4 knee reconstructions at the same time.

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:14 pm  

rugbyreddog wrote:

Speaking of which: Did you know that the elephant is the only animal with four knees. It would therefore be possible for an elephant to have 3 or 4 knee reconstructions at the same time.

Elephants have two knee joints and two elbow joints, like any other 4-limbed tetrapod. Their elbow is higher on the limb and the joint you see them bending isn't even the elbow, but is actually the carpal articulation, the equivalent of our wrists.

So there.

Very few of them can fix a faulty washing machine either.

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:33 pm  

Adeybull wrote:

Coupled with a shedload of injuries, many of which were never made public at the time for obvious reasons.

Mind you, you only had to see the hatred that Leon was showing to Harris - when the latter was trying to tell the former where to position himself behind the sticks at Fev in the cup in 2005 - to see the Edwards effect was not wholly confined to 1998.

Not obvious to me. Obviously.