Re: Leeds : Mon May 09, 2016 4:52 pm  

Agree with the last 2 posts, we had a horrendous injury list for the first 5/6 games, not to mention the retirement of Robinson and Ferres leaving us short on numbers, but we just got on with it, ad competed very well against a Wigan team with 10 internationals in it.
Every team has injuries, it's part of the game, to constantly go on about it is just looking for excuses IMO.

Re: Leeds : Tue May 10, 2016 1:16 pm  

meast wrote: Agree with the last 2 posts, we had a horrendous injury list for the first 5/6 games, not to mention the retirement of Robinson and Ferres leaving us short on numbers, but we just got on with it, ad competed very well against a Wigan team with 10 internationals in it. Every team has injuries, it's part of the game, to constantly go on about it is just looking for excuses IMO. Definitely. Paul Anderson never mentioned it. 5th Feb http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... l-10850217 “We were without several players before the game and now that injury list is stacking up further." 29th Feb http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... l-10962957 “Three-quarters of our salary cap have watched today’s game from the stands,” 1st Mar http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... n-10970673 “I said the other week when we lost our opening game at St Helens that I’d never experienced an injury situation quite like this” 25th Mar http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... n-11091213 “There are obviously reasons why we’ve suffered a start like this. I’ve never known an injury situation quite like it." That's from only half of the first page of Google results for "Paul Anderson Huddersfield Injuries"

meast wrote: Agree with the last 2 posts, we had a horrendous injury list for the first 5/6 games, not to mention the retirement of Robinson and Ferres leaving us short on numbers, but we just got on with it, ad competed very well against a Wigan team with 10 internationals in it. Every team has injuries, it's part of the game, to constantly go on about it is just looking for excuses IMO. Definitely. Paul Anderson never mentioned it. 5th Feb http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... l-10850217 “We were without several players before the game and now that injury list is stacking up further." 29th Feb http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... l-10962957 “Three-quarters of our salary cap have watched today’s game from the stands,” 1st Mar http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... n-10970673 “I said the other week when we lost our opening game at St Helens that I’d never experienced an injury situation quite like this” 25th Mar http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... n-11091213 “There are obviously reasons why we’ve suffered a start like this. I’ve never known an injury situation quite like it." That's from only half of the first page of Google results for "Paul Anderson Huddersfield Injuries"

Re: Leeds : Tue May 10, 2016 5:23 pm  

Fair enough, but McDermott and Wane mention it every week regardless of the result.

Re: Leeds : Tue May 10, 2016 8:23 pm  

Haha

Re: Leeds : Tue May 10, 2016 10:47 pm  

meast wrote:

Fair enough, but McDermott and Wane mention it every week regardless of the result.

Hahaaha

Re: Leeds : Wed May 11, 2016 12:53 am  

Injuries don't and can't excuse regular dire performances over the course of half a season.

Re: Leeds : Wed May 11, 2016 8:00 am  

BrisbaneRhino wrote:

Injuries don't and can't excuse regular dire performances over the course of half a season.

Certainly can't blame injuries for Watkins' form (among others, clearly)

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Leeds : Wed May 11, 2016 8:56 am  

LeedsDave wrote:

Certainly can't blame injuries for Watkins' form (among others, clearly)

top handling errors in the league currently.

Re: Leeds : Wed May 11, 2016 3:10 pm  

I thought the dip would come sooner.
They had a period of the perfect mix of great young and old players and kept it going for a good few years. It was never going to last forever.
Same thing happened to saints. Luckily never quite as extreme, but with the troops back and nothing to lose leeds could win a lot of the remaining games.

Generally I think the quality of super league is going down. No increase in salary cap and dire marketing rugby league in the UK cannot be very attractive to young sportsmen with any ambition.

Re: Leeds : Wed May 11, 2016 3:15 pm  

"Form" over the last five games. The order of the teams is the same order the table would be in right now if the season started five games ago (and there'd been no points deductions).