No we didn't.

Again, a conditioner, not physio.

simon pope=physio, and hes a very good one.

Ben cooper=conditioner who took over from billy mallo

Yep sorry, physio's on the brain after the OP. Even so,the principle is the same, our injury crisis coincides with his appointment so surely his position needs seriously looking at.

On the subject of our physio, the board need to be having a serious look at his performance aswell. Injury troubles like we are having do not continue for two seasons due to 'bad luck' someone is responsible, at least to a degree.

Are you sure?

there was someone between them wasn't there?

no im not the previous one took over from mallo,cant remember his name

Paul Hatton.

I dont think Huddersfield had the same amount of injuries as we have had whilst Ben Cooper was their conditioner.
We had a long list of injuries under Paul Hatton, I would think that conditioners share their skills and knowledge between themselves pretty much as coaches do, it's called enhancing their knowledge for the good of the game.
Billy Mallinson took the brunt of the blame for being 'under cooked'.
I cannot understand people blaming conditioners for our injuries, it's the nature of the beast in a violent contact sport, schitt happens.

So you think two years of massive injury crisis are completely down to luck? I'm not saying it's all one persons fault and I'm sure misfortune does play a part, I'm just saying that if the club aren't trying to identify contributing factors to this problem and resolve them then they aren't doing their jobs properly.

Or maye it was the Physios fault

That could all well be down to the application of the players involved, how many times do players pull up during a game with muscle strains etc, when they have all had the same warm up session pre-game.
Broken bones you cannot account for ask Brisco/Radford/King/Whiting and many more.
It's not all down to the conditioner.
And didn't Jason Smith criticize our Physio on his return to Oz thinking that he was all washed up as a player due to his injuries.

We actually had one absolutely horrendous year with injuries when Billy Mallinson was conditioner - under McRae 2003 I think. We probably had half a dozen loan players in at one stage and Raynor even made a guest appearance while still at Rugby Union!

I remember at the time people (like Bighead!) saying it must be because we've appointed Mallinson as conditioner.

Of course Mallinson is now at Rovers who hardly have any injuries at all!

calm down and read back,i corrected myself.