Reminds me of Van Persie, who's been basically half a player for most of his career given the proportion of time spent in the treatment room, but get him fit for a full season and you can build your team around him.

Press Release:

Leeds Rhinos have been handed a boost with the news that England centre Kallum Watkins will only be out of action for four weeks after minor surgery on a knee injury suffered in the Magic Weekend win over Bradford.

Watkins had the operation on Tuesday and is expected to be sidelined for up to a month however that is much better than first feared following the game.

Head Coach Brian McDermott commented, "I am delighted for Kallum and look forward to having him back available in a month. He is a tough character who has already had a number of set backs in his young career but I am sure he will come back even stronger. Even when he was injured on Sunday he still got back into the defensive line to stop a try which says everything about him."

Cheers Jonny i just hope the kid can come through all this and stay fit when he does return.

Haven't read the previous six pages, but you can't fault the kid for bravery given the two defensive efforts he put in immediately after the injury.

And what percentage has Senior missed in the same period tvoc - just to demonstrate that statistics really can be used to show whatever you want them to?

Watkins has everything you could want from a player - except durability. I genuinely hope he is not as fragile as he seems and it has just been bad luck.

Lets not compare Senior to Watkins, as Senior was superior to Watkins in every way. True Story.

You really are obsessed ...

The word 'was' is pertinent

He's just been very unlucky. He has all the potential to be the best centre we have ever produced, IF he can stay on the field. At only 21 though he has plenty of time to rectify this and hopefully in a few years time people will forget he was ever injury prone in the same way that we have about JJB.

On another note though... I hope when he does come back, we get the ball to him more that 2 times a game. He makes easy metres every time he touches the ball and I really dislike the fact Hardaker seems to get the ball at least 5 times to Watkins 1.

I agree. Hardaker gets the good ball, and does hardly anything with it.

Every team gets the majority of it's ball to it's left hand side. Saints even did that when they had Lyon on the right.

Where we lack, if just how very little we get to the right hand side.

Well maybe we should get a better Left Centre then?

Our current left centre is better than the left centre we had for the first third of last season. FACT, as seem as you seem to like them.

I wasn't slagging Hardaker off btw and I know the left side is the prominent side, but it's just our inability to pass to the right that frustrates the hell out of me. If we could get the ball in to Watkins' hands 10 times a game then we would be a hell of a lot more dangerous.