Warrington had this many players fit and available for selection this late on in the season?. Chris Bridge could have played at Wembley but TS has decided to keep him for the play offs. The only absentee being Simon Grix with pneumonia. I think this is a great testament to the coaching, fitness and medical staff at Warrington. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 938067.stm

Warrington had this many players fit and available for selection this late on in the season?. Chris Bridge could have played at Wembley but TS has decided to keep him for the play offs. The only absentee being Simon Grix with pneumonia. I think this is a great testament to the coaching, fitness and medical staff at Warrington. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 938067.stm

i cant ever remember going through a season with so little injury before.

shows that the new conditioning regime is delivering.

Its looking good.

Also has a lot to do with luck. If you don't believe in luck then it must be devine intervention.

Perhaps Smith is god after all. With the power over all the living.

Having two physios might also have something to do with it.

Definitely luck. You can have the absolute best conditioning, fitness and training regimes and the best possible medical staff. But if a 20 stone man falls on your ankle it breaks, if he traps your knee under his body it ruptures tendons.

Or in St Helens' case, if a 20 stone man disturbs a lock of the scrum-half's hair, that's another 3 weeks on the fitness table.

Luck is playing its part but the new conditioning is playing more part than luck

SInce I don't believe in luck, I'll go for the divine intervention option.

If only Luke burgess and Jamie Peacock had better conditioning would they be playing at wembley?

Conditioning can decreases the chances of some injuries and decreases recovery times but luck remains a huge factor in a collision sport like League.

Grix is back in the gym as well, looked like he has lost a bit of weight though.

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

That could be correct.

Dare I say it.....but players make quicker come backs when the team are doing well and are in finals. I wonder how many Bradford, Wakefield and Quins players are 'injured' atm, who may be wouldn't be if there was a final at place.

People who have played any team sport will know where I'm coming from.

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.