Steel and paper : Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:40 pm  

simple question - who are the players at your club who hardly ever get injured, and who are never out of the treatment room?

was looking at richard horne's career stats today and apart from one serious neck injury last season his full season appearance record for hull is 26, 26, 28, 31, 30, 29, 32, 31, and of course 2 last season. not bad for a 10 year career

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:44 pm  

Think also at Hull you can put Radford, Tickle & Dowes in that bracket, especially good for the knocks forwards take.

Wasnt it Fielden or Senior who had one of the longest injury free runs ?

Paper id probably say Gaz Raynor or Kingy

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:44 pm  

Stuart Littler who's just made his 134 consecutive appearance (just short of David Watkins club record of 140!) and something like 270+ game in total since '98 and of course Malcolm Alker who's made over 300 appearances for us since his debut in '97.

: Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:09 am  

I don't think Hicks has missed a game for Warrington since he signed, but that was only a year ago. Westwoods reliable too.
On the other end we have Johnson, Bridge and reardon who never seem fit.

Funnily enough I never see Vella miss a game at KR although that could be me imagining things.

: Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:17 am  

Dico wrote:

I don't think Hicks has missed a game for Warrington since he signed, but that was only a year ago. Westwoods reliable too.
On the other end we have Johnson, Bridge and reardon who never seem fit.

Funnily enough I never see Vella miss a game at KR although that could be me imagining things.

You probably didn't until tomorrow, ligament damage last week. Quality player who overcame cancer and came back with just as much quality.

: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:17 am  

Wellens is an almost ever present for us, as for the "paper" its a tough one Cayless was out alot last year but so was scully

: Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:16 am  

r4yne wrote:

Wellens is an almost ever present for us, as for the "paper" its a tough one Cayless was out alot last year but so was scully

and the year before and the year before that

: Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:48 am  

Cayless hardly ever strings two games together like Scully. Wellens and Gardner are very rarely injured for Saints.

: Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:57 am  

Ben Fisher at Rovers played with broken fragments of bone in his leg which is quite an achievment!

: Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:01 pm  

Yeaman played the cc final with a broken foot scoreing 2 tries one of them running the length of the field