But you have some players who with play at the risk of their own health, Delaney clearly has come back from injury before ready on more than one occasion and now can't string 2 games together. Mario French (former NRL player) played through so many concussions in his career he is now loosing his memory.

Exactly Jjb is another & there are many more across the sport.

I'm not sure how you decide a player is ready to play again after injury.If they are passed as being medically fit to return,how can you judge they are not ready? The only way to test injury is to put it into practise,usually requires playing.

Absolute rubbish the fact he got stick on here/at games was a very small part of the point being made about the overall situation wrt his selection whilst jabbed up & still in rehab.
As for "having a soft spot clouding my view" absolute BS Delaney is another one used the same way.
Yes i rate Sutty but knowing the "whole situation" helps form my opinion not cloud it & what other Coaches do is A.Irrellevant & B.This happened in regular games where no trophy was at stake nor relegation a factor.
Yes players play hurt but they also need protecting from themselves & imo this wasn't a risk worth taking & even the Coach himself has admitted picking players he shouldn't wrt fitness.
As for yer last paragraph where can you find an example of my hypocrisy wrt selecting injured players?
The ONLY time id even consider selecting a jabbed up player is a Final/relegation decider & even then id expect at least a certain level of fitness not a first game back after months out & very little re-hab.

You only have to watch some of ours warm up to see they aren't ready.

Players do carry injuries,fact of life..Most are minor and controllable in some form..If not,they wont play.

Not always true. Sometimes risks are taken that simply wouldn't in other games with other players - particular WRT big name players in big games. Most of the time we don't really hear about it, but sometimes we do and it can backfire spectacularly (Senior in the CC final springs to mid).

The moral high ground of not picking players or players putting their hand up to play if they need a jab sounds all well and good AND easy when it's not your job and you aren't judge don't based on results so anybody saying they've wouldn't do it I take with a pinch of salt. Very easy to forget that 3rd game in was the WCC and if he wanted to play him in that big game they might've felt he'd be better having some SL action before.

To players this is a job - nothing more, fans expecting greater desire because they play for your club is clouded thinking.

If you weren't feeling on top of your game would you go work - of course you wouldn't - especially if what ever was stopping you going to work could get worse and cause a longer lay off.

All players in all sports have pulls and strains that they play with - playing with an injury that impairs your ability to contribute fully to the team is unfair on your team mates and supporters

To the majority, yes. The likes of McGuire, JJB, Hall etc.. lads who have supported and grown up through the system i would say that it is a bit more than a job. JJB for example, would run through a brick wall for the Leeds cause. That is one big benefit of bringing local talent through your system.

Like Biff said, for some that is true but to paint all players with that brush is clearly wrong and we've had enough examples in our squad in recent times who prove that.

The major consequence of playing Senior was that it made the injury worse and we lost him for the rest of the season. We should still have won that game, bt Hull decided to play really well (how dare they!) and Calderwood made that last minute fumble. Had he dropped on, what was a very poor kick, it was game over. But he fumbled. Senior had nothing to do with that or with Bai's c**k up earlier in the match.

Big difference between playing hurt players, and playing players who are at risk of permanently damaging their bodies. Sutcliffe clearly was medically fit to play so the question is more on the lines of should the coach protect a younger player more and not throw him in before he is ready.

However there have been far too many examples of Mac playing players when there is a risk, McGuire this season being the most recent example. He should protect his players more.

DHM - my point was the injury itself. Senior was crocked for the rest of the year. Had it been Willie Poching for example, the risk wouldn't have been taken at all.

Niggly injuries are the concern,sprains and pulls go away.Somewhere along the lines you have to decide,can we nurse the player to close season (operation to fix),or write his season off now...

You decide...