Injured Lawrence to miss Dragons clash

[Geo]

Injured Lawrence to miss Dragons clash

Dan Talintyre (Twitter: @dantalintyre)

Fri 4th September, 12:00PM
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Wests Tigers NRL Coach Jason Taylor has confirmed Chris Lawrence will miss Saturday's final round clash against the St. George-Illawarra Dragons due to injury.

After he picked up a pec injury in the Club's Round 25 win over the New Zealand Warriors, Taylor confirmed that the centre-turned-forward wasn't worth risking this week against the Dragons, having not trained all week following the 50-16 victory on Sunday.

"Chris Lawrence hasn't made it for this weekend," Taylor said on Friday morning.

"He's not going to take his place in the team [as] he has a pec injury from last weekend.

"If he played and tore his pec for a game that, given where the season is at for us, it'd be a really poor decision as coaches to push him out there on the day."

Taylor confirmed that young hooker Manaia Cherrington — who was originally named as 18th man — would come into the side on the interchange bench as his replacement.

"Manaia will come into the 17, and will get some time at hooker," he said.

http://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2015/09/04/injured_lawrence_to_.html

 

[foreveratiger]

What's new ?

 

[marzie]

Lovett

 

[Guest]

At least we have managed our injuries well this year.

 

[sheer64]

Unfortunate for Chris he has been in good form.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

Shift Farah to lock when Cherrington comes on to help cover for Lawrence's absence.

 

[WhiTe Tiger]

Shift Farah to lock when Cherrington comes on to help cover for Lawrence's absence.

I was thinking the same. Bring Cherrington on at the backend of the half and give them both the freedom to run the ball from dummy half.

 

[fairdinkum]

What's new ?

Simona and Rowdy must have been the worst centre combo in Nrl history for being injury prone.

Serioulsy though, good player that should have been a great player but injury killed his Rep career. 2007-2010 (4yrs) played 100 games. 2011-2015 (5yrs) played 70 games. Thats an average of half a season each year for the last 5 years sitting on the sidelines. Money well spent.

 

[foreveratiger]

What's new ?

Simona and Rowdy must have been the worst centre combo in Nrl history for being injury prone.

Serioulsy though, good player that should have been a great player but injury killed his Rep career. 2007-2010 (4yrs) played 100 games. 2011-2015 (5yrs) played 70 games. Thats an average of half a season each year for the last 5 years sitting on the sidelines. Money well spent.

And some want him as Captain next year :roll

 

[Tigerdave]

bugger, well, it's probably the only thing that has gone really well for us this year, far less injuries compared to previous years

 

[innsaneink]

What's new ?

This is very new….unchanged line ups week to week are the norm now, injuries are minimal....havent you been following? :brick:

Bad luck for Rowdy I was looking forward again to watching him after the terrific presser this week

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Shame. Will give him a head start on the off season. Looking forward to seeing him go round next yr. Our new captain hopefully.

 

[Knuckles]

I want to give the Lawrence of Leumeah banner one last run :frowning:

 

[greatodensraven]

Shift Farah to lock when Cherrington comes on to help cover for Lawrence's absence.

I was thinking the same. Bring Cherrington on at the backend of the half and give them both the freedom to run the ball from dummy half.

x 3

 

[sideline_eye]

Pectoral injuries can be very serious and he needs to be kept in cotton wool or he might miss the start of next season.

 

[Geo]

What's new ?

Simona and Rowdy must have been the worst centre combo in Nrl history for being injury prone.

Serioulsy though, good player that should have been a great player but injury killed his Rep career. 2007-2010 (4yrs) played 100 games. 2011-2015 (5yrs) played 70 games. Thats an average of half a season each year for the last 5 years sitting on the sidelines. Money well spent.

And some want him as Captain next year :roll

He's played more games than Robbie Farah this year…

 

[fairdinkum]

What's new ?

Simona and Rowdy must have been the worst centre combo in Nrl history for being injury prone.

Serioulsy though, good player that should have been a great player but injury killed his Rep career. 2007-2010 (4yrs) played 100 games. 2011-2015 (5yrs) played 70 games. Thats an average of half a season each year for the last 5 years sitting on the sidelines. Money well spent.

And some want him as Captain next year :roll

He's played more games than Robbie Farah this year…

rowdy 19/24 games
faz 17/21 games (3 taken out for SOO)

Rowdy went off twice with injury, 1 game after just a couple of minutes, played off the bench in a couple, Robbie missed most of a second half of a game when he broke his hand.
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All toted probably played less minutes then Robbie.