Played against him through all the junior years up here in cumbria. Fantastic player who ripped these youth leagues apart and when he signed for bulls i was expecting big things from him but when you get x2 ACL injuries you carnt help but feel sorry for the guy thats probably his time at bradford over now

I don't think he'll be better equipped. Sportsmen like rugby players and footballers are prime candidates for knee ligament injury simply due to the extreme stresses and pivoting movements they regularly undergo. It doesn't much matter though, because now that he has had an ACL go in both knees, the problem for him is that once injured, there are quite high risks of re-occurrence and other problems, especially in the medium term. It's a misconception that an ACL injury is just like snapping a piece of string, but usually other tissue is involved. (Most have injuries to the meniscus and bruising to the bone as well)

While modern medical and surgical techniques are fantastic, I think an athlete who chooses to play on after an ACL reconstruction is both brave and (understandably) often looking mainly at the short term , just wanting to get back to what they know despite the risks of storing up future problems. It would be reasonable to expect that a leg with all these injured and repaired bits and pieces must be more prone to future injury than an intact leg, and such studies as there have been of ACL in sportsmen suggest that their playing career is often significantly shortened.

His knees may, and hopefully will, get back to something like and he will hopefully go on to be something like his best, but he should have our extreme admiration, as first it takes some doing to rehab after such an injury, and second he will know the risks and what future problems he may be storing up, yet will choose to play rugby for us despite all that.

This is the biggest danger, IMO. Having gone through it, you seem to pick up muscular injuries when attempting to come back. Everyone puts a 6 month turnaround on this injury, but in reality it's more like 9 months as almost everyone has set backs in their rehab.

Once an individual has gone through this surgery, you don't often hear of them needing the same knee done (Gasnier comes to mind). Look at Donno, its the other knee which has given way, meaning he may have had poor/weak ligaments for the job he has to carry out.

Lets hope the lad has some good fortune over the next few years. Then again 'Luck' and 'Bulls' is never something you see in the same sentence! lol

Bulls? Luck? Bull? Lucks? Something is on the tip of my tongue but i can't quite get it.

Choose to play for us? What planet are you on F.A, the only people they do it for are themselves, to earn a wage and for their own enjoyment.

Certainley not for us.