I heard last night off someone that solomona is struggling and may not play, hope they are wrong!!

I think a lot of it is luck but some of it is to do with the abaility of Smith to manage his squad. He has had this luxury because of the way we have been playing. If we had scratchy form all season then we would not have been resting players for the odd game like we have. The slightest knock and we can rest somebody.
I suppose some of this boils down to his coaching bringing out the best of the players, who have been putting in performances that give you the confidence and ability to rest players.
I reckon the bill for buying pain killing injections will have reduced significantly over the last 2 years.

Since TS has left Leeds our injury rate has gone up massivly. Coincidence? (sp)

Has it?

This year we've had a ridiculous number of injuries but I wouldn't say we've been particularly cursed in the two years before that. Buderus is the obvious one last year but that was a broken leg...even Tony Smith can't prevent that any more than he can walk on water (he can't, can he?)

As someone mentioned above when you have a good season you can rotate the squad a bit and help avoid injuries (especially repeat injuries from rushing players back). Leeds haven't had that luxury this year whereas we did for example in 2006.

IIRC we haad some pretty bad injuries in early 2008, although I think we still won most of our matches during that time so its easy to forget .