Have we got a full list yet?

[The Big I]

So the question we need to ask what are the training staff doing to minimise the injury holocaust we suffered last season. Because as with all pro sports you can't win anything without your "1st" string starters on the field all season.

[travelling_gerry]

S&C Coach gawnnn.

New S&C coach in his place.

[GIGS20]

Yep, it might not be effective, but there has been action.......I don't think this year will be a good indication of whether the loss of Haydn Masters has helped. If last year was as a result of the S&C program, there won't be enough gains made in the short preseason to be effective. Player management could be better, but a lot of injury management is in the preparation.

Perhaps it wasn't the S&C coach. I could imagine that Mitch would be pretty good at convincing assistants to play players against their better judgement!

perhaps it was just good, old-fashioned bad luck

[eleypinkbit]

Maybe they need to perform some kind of cleansing ceremony at the ground to get rid of all the injury bad luck then!

[James]

perhaps it was just good, old-fashioned bad luck

Yeah that'd be my bet. You can strength and condition all you like but in a high collision sport you aren't going to be able to control how people land on the ground or which part of the body is hit during a tackle. We just had really bad luck and arguably a poor choice was made to take on Pretorius (easy to say in hindsight ).

If the Force ran out into the first game and were out-muscled and out-ran then alarm bells would ring but we lost that first game because the two 10s we had been banking on came up injured and Sam Harris just wasn't the goods with slow running, average passing and far too many kicks going straight into touch. Given the way the Brumbies played a competent 10 would've nailed them to the wall.