Hi la familiars,
I am seeing a lot of talk about our so called injury crisis and how we are "doing so well" to have scraped together four wins under such "adversity". In reality we have been extremely lucky this year. If things hadn't gone our way we would easily be 1 and 8 right now.
Way too much is made of our injuries. Injuries are a part of rugby league and we have been extremely fortunate not to suffer them to players in key positions. It is a first grade rugby league side's responsibility to create squad depth so injuries to spare part players like forwards and outside backs can be easily covered. Take 10 first graders out of Melbourne's side and they won't skip a beat. So long as they have the bulk of their spine players, they'll be all good.
Melbourne did happen to be missing 50 percent of their spine when we played them and that is the only reason we were able to beat them. Likewise, we limped to victory against a very ordinary Cowboys side which was missing a lot of personnel, including Drinkwater, who is absolutely essential to everything they do.
Moving on to last weekend's game - we had a freebie game against a disinterested, lower tier team who were on a four day turnaround, with their best player eyeing the exit door, no l and we only just managed to limp to victory. If we had drawn the Dragons on a regular turnaround, they'd have torn us to pieces.
So I don't want to hear any more of this boo-hoo we have injuwies rubbish. The reality is the footy gods have been smiling down on us all season and if our luck takes a turn for the worse, we might well still be wooden spoon candidates.