Maybe the players, during their rehab, look down at their winning medals and think it was all worth it.

For sure as I say injuries are to be expected as it's a contact sport but every clubs inabilitys to staff accordingly due to the cap is now hilighting the lack of depth in squads.

Im not a fan of some of the new trends of the third or fourth man in when the attacker is virtually tackled smashing into them happening too often and it's only real perpous is to cause harm which is unsporting imo the deliberate twisting and isolating joints again no reason to do it other than to cause injurie

Completely agree. Ratchford was very upset in the Widnes game when he thought his leg and knee were being twisted in the tackle. Don't often see him riled like that.

Injuries seem to be increasing in both codes. I think this is partly to do with the changes to tackling techniques. Defence is much more aggressive than it was back in the day. I was coached to let my body fall with the player I tackled, now the idea is to send them back from where they started, and to slow down the attack by tackling the upper body initially, and then legs.

Doing away with the magic sponge hasn't helped. That used to cure two broken legs!