To be fair what else was he going to say at the start of a season, "I fully expect the players I've signed to play at 11 and 12 to be injured for a lot of the season and I doubt we'll see them play together very much at all".

I was looking at the appearances chart in the Castleford programme at the weekend and to be fair to Williamson (and Mac) he was almost ever-present apart from one lengthy spell on the sidelines early in the season. More worrying though was the pattern of Robinson's appearances - assuming he was never dropped it appears there were five separate instances of him missing at least one game through injury. He started only three of the last twelve games, including the one win during this period.

Robinson was definitely the more worrying, in for one, out for two. Haggerty and Heckenberg have paid the ultimate price (well not the ultimate price) for their injury record. Just hope that for Quins and the players sake the Aussie 11 and 12 occupy those starting jerseys a little more often and consistently.

I blame going to warm weather training. It clearly is just a booze cruise. They're not prepared for the English winter and they're all on a paid jolly. Disgraceful.


Oh hold on. We fininshed the season poorly this time when it started to get warmer.

Quote: Prince of Denmark "I thought we don't do warm weather training any more? Isn't it Army assault courses on the South Downs during the middle of winter instead?'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRFb_m_p ... re=channel

Quote: Prince of Denmark "I thought we don't do warm weather training any more? Isn't it Army assault courses on the South Downs during the middle of winter instead?'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRFb_m_p ... re=channel