I am my friend. The weather isn't looking in our favour for staying dry. Hopefully my straw hat with shelter me from the down pour. I've heard one of your fellow fans has sent a signed Tomkins shirt to be auctioned off after the game. I applaud that, as I will show my gratitude for each donation I recieve.

I've caught the bug a little with this charity walk. If, touch wood it never does, any of your cherry & whites is in need of some support, I will be more than help happy out.

I'm sure the club will seek legal advise on the matter. Can't think of any previous incidents, where a player has seeked compensation, against the individual who caused it. Hopefully it won't come to that. It's a contact sport, we want tackles to be legal of course, but we'd hate our players to refrain from big hits, to avoid the risk of potential court action.

....on another note........any standing water on the pitch yet

ps will be in the seated stand waiting for the bucket collection for Tangi so i can do my bit

Dunno about the pitch, but lots of standing water on the playing field and green in Ackworth, 1 1/2 miles away.

Re: getting a no win no fee solicitor in.

I'm just finishing my law degree now so I can maybe give a bit more information on this.

Proving a tort of offences against the person in a professional sporting context is notoriously difficult. Lawyers and academics have been arguing for years over whether or not injuries like this constitute a normal and acceptable risk through playing the game (which has normally been seen as the threshold).

A friend of mine is currently writing a dissertation on the subject (with a particular focus on rugby) and there's a really large amount of confusion over it. Its worth going to seek advice but the standard set will be hard to reach particularly due to the fact rugby is a physical game and injuries like this might been as an acceptable risk which does not give rise to liability.

A good financial adviser would have recommended something like rlthisrl.