They were missing Tomkins, Smith, Cotric, Whitehead and Pangai Jr this week, but does anyone know if they were just rested and will be back for our game ??


It looks like we could be missing Smith and Nikotemo but not sure about Rodwell, and Atoni looked to be limping too ??

Great, looks like we are almost back to double figure injuries by sounds of it again. 

Smith would be a blow but at least Hood could probably do the full 80. 


Nikotemo is easy to cover with Vagana coming straight in. 


Rodwell or Atoni we have 4 props still if one of them isn?t fit. If both aren?t then it could be Pitts or Shaw/Ellis helping prop for a short spell. 


Even if we are missing those the team still look capable of getting a result which is amazing with Trueman, Russell, Russell, Lawford, Storton, Doyle already out. 


Our depth is nothing short of impressive this season. 

Is it too much for the rugby gods to give us just a small run without any injuries being picked up? Even last year we never really had a run with our first choice 17.

Wouldn?t that be nice. We say it almost every year but it is amazing how teams at the top end tend to be healthy more often than not. 

Regardless though it?s testament to the squad as a whole we can still pick up wins with many injuries. 


I?m sure the media will focus on Catalans if they have 2/3 missing unlike almost double figures for trinity potentially. 


Let?s get over there and roll them over. They?re nothing to fear with who they?ve faced in the league so far. 

It could be worse....just look at Shudds injury list 

Yes but I have zero doubt all of them will be back for our game and they will end their unbeaten run. 

I still remember that game years ago they?d lost 12? In a row and we were going good. We rocked up and got trounced. 


I?d like to think we are beyond that these days!

Think Double figures is pushing  it a bit . It comes across as all the players that are injured would play  That is a bit of the mark will give you Russel in the halfs  ( will not pick Trueman think we signed a dud there ) Smith, Russell on the wing ,but would like to see Walmsley given a go The forward  from H K R he is a big miss .I  would love to see a team with out Griffing in, know Hall and Scott got stick against Cas but did  not help with Griffin playing in the second row next to them ,looked well passed is sell date Know he had just come back from injury, but as not impressed all season Just a old forward keep one of our young exciting young forward out of the team .

Well, we don't travel to France well our playing history shows !   For one thing we cannot cope with the hot weather, we start way too slow
& then the game has gone away from us !  Catalan usually cause injury to Tom  when playing for us !  Not sure Mike will. Play
In short I think we will loose this quite easy, hope I am wrong but we shall see.

Why wouldn?t Mike play? 

And it?s a completely different club and set of players to 2023 and previous. 


Not to mention we are on equal points despite much tougher fixtures. 


That?s incredibly pessimistic. 


It could easily go either way and we could just as easily come away with 2 points.  

And it'll be about 21 degrees. It's hardly Sahara weather.

That would mean you'd only count, say, the top 17 players as injured then. What about all their backups that make up the top 25 players? Don't they count when they're injured? And that's what's been happening to us. It's not just that we've had first 17 players missing; we've had their backup players missing over the season so far. Some have only just come back after injury, like Scott & Griffin. Others have got injured again, like Seth, then add him to Stourton, that's 2 of our backrowers out. Both Russells are out who'd be playing now, Trueman's out and even though you band around words like dud, which imo is out of order, when he's a kid who's giving his all for us but ended up with a different injury to the one that he had trouble with before he joined. A dud is someone like Proctor, imo. Trueman's also made us look good when he's played with Lino and makes us look a different side with various ways to attack because of having 2 attacking options, rather than being so forward dominant and thus making us easier to defend against. Then we've got other guys that count like Doyle, who'd be in the side and even Lawford would have been very handy right now. Then it's that knock-on effect with guys who probably haven't had much time forming any kind of partnerships ending up being on the left or the right edge and getting caught out defensively, just due to lack of knowing each other's games, that's happened a few times in the last 3 games or so.

A do not agree would have done .At the end of the day you can only have 17 players in a match .When pundits on TV  go on about who are missing, they are on about players who are in the first team all the time .,not a 30 plus squad.