Quote: BrisbaneRhino "Ward's missed less games this season than Garbutt, one more than Delaney (who's gone off injured in a fair few he's played in) and 2 more than Ferres and JJB. The difference with him and Garbutt is at least when they are on the field they make a big difference as opposed to the rest who don't add much even when they are fit.
I don't disagree with re-evaluating the way Ward plays, but it would be a lot easier to cover for him if we didn't have a bunch of older players who are injury prone due to ageing as much as anything else.
Whilst I think our injury list would be better almost immediately if our forwards were younger, we need to also look at conditioning. Far too often we've had seemingly half fit players take the field, only to go off with injuries during the game. That's worse than them missing the game completely as we lose a sub, and its happened too often for it just to be bad luck.'"
JJB has had one serious injury this year (knee) taking him out for almost 3 months. Ward has had several different injuries the most worrying of which is recurring concussion. Maybe he could solve our centre problem where he would be more effective and less at risk to head injuries and our defence out wide will improve.