http://m.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/6802
Doesn't say how long he's out for, just says short period of time due to knee injury and he'll be assessed by medical staff.
http://m.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/6802
Doesn't say how long he's out for, just says short period of time due to knee injury and he'll be assessed by medical staff.
Originally Posted by Despondent Dave
Well we've 4 games over the next two weeks so their is a fair chance he'll miss all of those.
Maybe a good opportunity to introduce Cunningham junior onto the bench..
I heard good things about him towards the end of last year.
Must admit I don't know how it's ever going to work with Dad coaching and son playing.
Tommy Lee is very experienced player, and he will help lead our young squad for honours this season.
Re hookers & injuries.......who was the first choice hooker before KC ?
If I recall the first choice Hooker was injured so we promoted the reserve Hooker who I think was called Harrison, he got injured after a couple of games so KC got his chance and the rest is history.
I just can't recall who the first choice Hooker was, I keep thinking Paul Groves but I'm sure someone came after him.
Enormous blow and typical of our luck. We've just got Smith back and now we lose another one of our most influential players in a key position on the field over Easter. Couldn't write it.
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Another excuse, for a few weeks ,for Cunningham to blame poor performance and numerous defeats on.
That means Kez will throw him in at stand off then.
However, when we played the friendlies. Jonah looked far more comfortable playing with grown men than Smith did. Smith kind of disappeared a bit.
Neither are anywhere, anywhere near good enough yet and neither will play a second for the first team this year.
This topic is winding me up tbh. The only ones who should be considered for selection in that group are Ashworth, Wellington, Fleming and Richardson. Spedding maybe. How anyone can suggest Smith or Cunningham should be and then call Cunningham for his selections need to have a good think.
Again though, this all goes back to the depth issue. We lose a half, we change our structure completely. We lose a 9 and we're talking about spelling Lee with a back row or whoever else, who has equally poor acceleration. We've got about 20 players we can realistically pick from in the squad because of recruitment and the fact that we don't use the loan system effectively. How are we expecting to go through a full season, with effectively two Easters, with that depth in the squad? We're constantly one or two injuries away from disaster every time. Going to be totally knackered by the end of the month.
Last edited by Tez the Saint; 6th April 2017 at 01:15.
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The main issue is that the likes of Wellington, Grace and Richardson should be on loan playing against men. Look at Wigan with Williams, he even had 3 games in South Wales. Prior to that, they drip fed him into the team, 20 mins here and there, a bit at hooker, a bit at loose forward.
We should have been doing that with Richardson. Instead we throw him in and ask him to lead us around the park when Smith is injured and then when he's not pulling up trees after 3 games, KC publicly throws him under a bus.
For an under 19s side to go unbeaten in a season is remarkable. It's practically unheard of in a team sport.
The fact that not one of those players from last season has properly broken through or even look likely to tells you all there is to know about Cunningham. They go backwards under his coaching.
Can anyone remember the circumstances behind Roby's move into the pack? Was it an injury to Higham or Cunningham? Im struggling to recall the details behind it.
I think it might be an idea to give Richardson a go, i think his distribution off the floor could be better than Lee's who contracts our atrack even more than usual
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Last edited by Buddy; 6th April 2017 at 09:38.
Have you seen the size of Richardson, though? I don't want to go all 'boys in the gym', but if he played in any position other than the halves he'd get his head stuffed up his backside. I actually don't think there's been any need to play Richardson in another position, though; if it's a choice between him or Wilkin in the halves, he should play every time.
From what I recall KC played the first 20/25 mind at 9 then Roby came on for him at 9 and on the 50/55 minute mark KC came back on at 9 with Roby seeing the game out at 13 that went on for years... I think that's part of what you're asking? Forgive me if I'm wrong.
A injury to Higham is what first got Roby interchanging with KC but Higham did exactly what Roby did before hand,until then Roby just filled in where needed at 7 or even wing similar to Wello when he came through I suppose .
Once Higham realised he was behind Roby he was off, shame really as we could have done with him when KC packed up.