I read a interview with Sam Burgess about last season at South Sydney, basically he shouldnt have played most of the season but ended up playing 22 out of 28 games!!
[urlhttp://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/south-sydney-prop-sam-burgess-goes-to-extreme-measures-to-keep-himself-on-the-park/story-e6frep5x-1226589478926[/url

be very careful if you have the audacity to make a criticism of a phil townsend post you will looking down the barrel of a ban

we deffo missed him when he went off, even tho it wasn't vintage tim but when he went off injured boy we looked hudderless which is quite worrying tbh

Don't claim to understand this Twitter mularky but looked at Phil's Tweet and I cannot see a smiley, on the contrary there is a #trouble. Could it be when it was "copied and pasted" as I'm sure Phil does not find it in the least bit amusing.

Think people are reading far too much into a smiley!

I would say that Tim was injured from about the 3rd minute onwards, because as soon as we scored our 1st try he came right over to the left wing limping, and stayed out of the way for the return kick off.

Not good news that Tim's injured he could be out for the next game. But i hope they don't put Tim back on too soon, might only make it worse for us in the long run. But who is there to take his place???

I think smith was injured before game with the amount of tape he had I before and the way he was taped up suggest it was his hamstring. Might have been worth leaving him out of this game.

Smith's pass that put us over was superb, he will be missed but with him out and Sykes not being able to kick I think we should be giving Bobbie Goulding a go! Get him called back and lets see what he can do!

Cant understand why we didnt bring young Goulding back for this one if any doubt about Smith why risk him.

It can only help Bobbie getting in there whenever he can to keep him hungry and helping to upskill. And also for Sykes to realise that his position isn't safe. Think he might of taken his foot of the pedal a bit with I. John been gone.

With Tim was it the same leg that he had trouble with during the pre season?

i thought during the game that we needed to get tim smith off the field. he was obviously carrying an injury and we were giving him the ball and he could not do much with it as he couldn't run, he was just catching and passing. this was hampering us as it was easy to read.

should have had him off a bit earlier with wood at scrum half. we would have to work harder (a seperate issue) to score, but we could have scored.

we need a fully fit tim smith