That's not what it says on Saints website.

Really?
"Centre/second rower Josh has signed from Blackbrook but previously played for Leyland Warriors and Chorley Panthers. He has been a scholar for four years, attended all Regional Camps and captained at England under 15s. He is currently in the RFL’s national training program in preparation for this year’s England selection."
nowt about playing 6 there

Copied and pasted direct from the Saints website:


That has been taken from the first team information, where he has just had a profile placed under the number 30.

ahhh, mine was copied from the u20's info

Wellens was on crutches today so it doesn't look like he'll be playing on Monday!

Great! Not. Another long termer.

Our team cannot handle the pace of our own team. Groins, ankles, hamstrings ... we should stop trying to run so fast!

Being serious, what is the problem?

For two years we've had massive injury problems and just can't keep our players fit.

Is it they just not tough enough? Is it our training methods? Is it just pure bad luck?

I have a theory.

I know from what Flannery said in the press that Potter demanded (his word) that his players put on weight. Putting on weight will put pressure on certain parts of the body. Potter also liked us to barge forward. That may be why we had a predominance of muscle injuries over the last two seasons. Simmons stated in the press when he first came over here that he left the conditioning side to the conditioner. The conditioner asked him what plan he wanted but he handed the job back to the conditioner. Simmons has speeded us up good style. Our injuries are now largely athletic ones: ankles, hamstrings, groins. The only upper body injuries have been direct results of tackles (Clough and Wheeler; Clough has a complication to his of course).

So my theory is that the type of injuries suffered are as a direct result of the style of play adopted by the coach AND the conditioning regime.

Good theory, eh?

Awesome theory

According to a poster on Redvee, the 19 man squad will be much different from the team playing tomorrow and the injury situation is worse than anticipated.

Buggeration. So why release a smoke and daggers 19 man squad?

Are we doing a Millward?

I've been told that Sia, wheeler, wello, lomax are all doubts from the squad but not sure how true.