RHINO-MARK wrote:
Cuthbertson & Garbutt still picked up injuries ,given Galloways age & type of injury there's nothing to suggest he'll come back 100% either & IF he does albeit a workhorse he's hardly a world beater at Prop.
Ferres was still injured & selected Delaney is in pieces yet gets selected Jjb is injured on a regular basis & i'll bet he & BD are 1 heavy knock from retirement.
Ablett is picking up regular injuries & they are becoming more long term Wards issues are well known so id say our injury prone pack is exactly that & still lacks a quality line breaker.
Yes Garbutt, Cuthbertson & Ferres missed some games through injury but it wasn't many at all and must've featured in around 80% of our games.......hardly injury prone, forwards are going to miss the odd few can't expect your whole pack to stay fit week in week out, no club will.
JJB came back in Round 5 and didn't miss a game after that so he wasn't injured on a regular basis last year.
Ablett didn't pick up regular injuries, it was the reoccurring one with his ankle that we didn't let properly heal before bringing him back.
Galloway might not be a world beater but neither is the opposition we'll be facing. After a slow start he was a decent performer most weeks and whilst Garbutt is the big metre maker, Cuthbertson the offloading ball playing forward and Singleton the energy in the props, Galloway rounds off a good quartet of props with his solid if unspectacular showings. As a quartet it's arguably better than the previous one of Peacock, Leuluai, Bailey & Kirke because it's more of a shared workload compared to the one that relied so heavily on Peacock.
Delaney is truely the only one who picks up various injuries that keep him out for noticeable periods and he's now looking like a squad player with a potential starting backrow of Ablett, Ward & Ferres (and even JJB ahead of Delaney) then it's not like we'll be trying to get the same usage out of him.
