Seems to be an injury occurring with increasing frequency across the sport

All the best to Crofty getting back from it

Could be but I feel that's more fatigue I can't see where it would contribute to an early-season injury crisis, poor old Crofty was only playing lower Championship in only his second game.

Not just bad luck IMO Vasty, unfortunately there are a few clubs out there that deliberately apply tackle techniques that result in these sort of injuries that could of been avoided. Not saying that`s what's happened here by the way.

But it is because those teams don't just do it to us, like it or not there is always attrition to these incidents at all clubs, we just seem to get more injuries due to dirty play than most.

It's like TJ's injury, it was a bit dirty but you wouldn't have expected it to put him out for 8 chuffing weeks. He's copped far worse in his career and he's been fine.

Not condoning dirty play but considering what Tanginoa did a few weeks back we are not without malice, it happens, we are no more victimized than anyone else, as I say, just unlucky.

Sorry

That`s what I`m getting at, it`s not a contributing factor from within, but there's more too it than just bad luck imo in some cases.

I know, what I'm saying is that for some reason we get far more unlucky results than other teams.

Many years ago my brother and I took a beating from some s and they were s, a case of mistaken identity it turned out.

My brother lost his front teeth, had a broken rib, was heavily bruised with loads of cuts, and was heavily concussed. I was shaken but barely had a mark on me. We both took the same brutal kicking but I can't explain the difference in the results, I do know they didn't take it easy on me compared to my brother. He was just unlucky and I was lucky, logically it should have been the same result for both of us. Luck, life is just luck, without it you're stuffed.

Sorry for the boring story and no I don't feel guilty that I got away with it, I was always far more beautiful than him