Nice one Juddrman ... A young lad taken off as a precaution, (after having a good game ) that sounds right to me ... looking forward to seeing our youth develop into seasoned pro`s and taking super league by storm in the new stadium

You have a lot of good youngsters at Saints, almost as many as we have at Wigan

and if you can keep them together(and injury free) then your future is bright...one player you have that i really rate but never seems to get the plaudits is Matty Ashurst.

I concur that I don't think the little niggles are anything to worry about at this stage. Maybe if its still going on in a year we should start to worry. His body should toughen up to first team knocks.

Someone mentioned paul anderson, didn't he have an ilness as opposed to an injury when he was younger? I seem to remember him breaking his leg in a tackle from Apollo, but I may be mistaken.

Leave the lad alone. He's just having a bit of bad luck. It can happen to anyone.

As far as injuries go we're often talking about seconds or split-seconds in the decision-making process which are the difference between i.e. being tackled, hitting the earth and then playing the ball or catching your studs in the turf, going over awkwardly and rupturing your cruciate.

The gap between being in the right place at the right time and being in the wrong place at the wrong time is fractional and every second you're on the pitch you're gambling with your health.

Wheeler has had a few rolls of the dice go against him lately. His luck will change. Tommy Martyn went through the same problems earlier in his career and then blossomed when his luck returned.

Moving sports, Steven Gerrard was [iperpetually[/i injured during his early twenties. Never a week went by when he wasn't being treated for something or another. His luck changed - just as Wheeler's (and Lomax's) will.

You're a hero.

Grade II hamstring injury... 3/4 weeks on the sidelines for young Gary

Gerrard's wasn't anything to do with luck. His groin problems stemmed from his body not being able to cope with his sudden growth spurt as he broke into the Liverpool first team.

Wouldn't you say that was unlucky?

Jeez, I remeber that feeling.

I would say that Gerrard had a specific injury that could be nailed down with treatment. Once that was rectified he pretty much ever present for the next few years for Liverpool. Wheeler seems to get injured in different areas on a regular basis. Maybe using the word luck to describe them was wrong but I was getting at the fact that the OP was wrong to use Gerrard as a yardstick for Wheeler. Had he used Darren Anderton he would have been a hell of a lot closer.