i've had several running based foot injuries to the tissues etc but these typically tend to manifest themselves the day after, especially when putting the foot down first thing in the morning

Only us.

Hope its not as bad as it seemed.

No. it can happen to anyone from any team. your not a special case. this is rugby league, its unfortunate but you have to deal with it.

Cheers for that. However, despite your concern, I know our injury woes have been particularly unlucky in the past 4-5 years. The biggest signing in the league, returning to his old club as our captain, seemed typical of our injury curse!

Anyway, hope he's ok but I fear the worst. Gentle said their was a possibility they could have jabbed him up but chose not too.

Tbf there is clearly a strong correlation between age of signings and frequency of injuries.
It's not all down to bad luck.

confirmed in post match interview metatl ( spelling ?)

Maybe true. Ellis has a good injury record, but this could be a reoccurrence of his foot injury last season.

Good record? He played 11 games last year.

Before that? As I said, this could be a reoccurrence of that injury, which, as far as I know, is his only major injury whilst in the NRL?

EDIT: Had ankle injury in 2011, but still played 18 games. Hardly injury prone.

same injury same foot as last year for Ellis

He's an ageing injury prone wreck that we should have never signed.

so why are gleeson,welham and eden missing kr's 1st game,they are not old its just bad luck and you know it.

So you don't think older players are more likely to get injured?