Injury curse? bad luck? Or a club desperately needing a.....

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Written by Peter Dickinson from TigerNation on BlogSport
Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Injury curse? bad luck? Or a club desperately needing a training upgrade….....
Wests Tigers yesterday revealed that promising second rower Curtis Sironen's foot injury was worse than first hoped with Sironen slated to miss 12 weeks. Initially it was hoped Sironen would only miss perhaps 6 weeks but scans revealed further damage to the injury suffered during the Auckland Nines.

Sironen's injury is the second lengthy blow for the Tigers in as many weeks. A week earlier Dene Halatau suffered a nasty ankle injury which will also see him out for 12 weeks. Halatau and Sironen's injuries come on top of Tim Moltzen's (knee cap) December injury which ruled him out for anywhere up to 6 months.

The question on most Wests Tigers fans mind now is surely - "How is this happening again?" After 2013's horrific injury toll, fans have every right to be feeling a little uneasy right now. Tim Simona, Keith Galloway, Jack Buchanan, Liam Fulton, Sauaso Sue, Aaron Woods, Ben Murdoch-Masila, Luke Brooks and Mitchell Moses have all spent time in the rehab ward this pre-season due to injuries which required treatment or surgery.

They also face the prospect of a limited preparation for the new season. Something that only adds to any potential further injury risks. So how IS this happening again??? It's hard to know whether it's bad luck? Or whether there is something in the training? I know the club have been keen to improve training facilities and further modernise that side of things, Sports science being a good example. Linking the two together shouldn't be as easy as putting the two together. Sport science though is a key area. This takes time though and it's something we may not see genuine results in for another 12 months possibly.

Back on field though and one thing is certain. Wests Tigers are due for some real luck in relation to the injury gods. Let's hope this is as bad as it gets for 2014\. We can't afford to think otherwise. Touch wood our boys survive the weekend trial!

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I suppose it is a bit like a car, you have more chance of being killed in a old rust bucket in a collision than you do in brand new car with all the safety features.

In saying that most injuries are just plain bad luck and all clubs get them and go through a rough trot. Maybe with state of the art training and sports medicine facilities things would improve but IMO it would only be marginal. Their are always going to be the freak injury, like Moltzen knee cap and their are always going to be the contact injuries due to the nature of the sport.

Lets hope things settle down for the rest of the season
 
these ones seem like bad luck to be honest. Fractured knee cap? dislocated foot? and a similar injury for sironen, gettting caught up in a tackle. These are just really bad luck scenarios.

The rest are all very minor injuries. Although the quantity of them does draw a bit of attention. I'm sure that the facilities/training methods at the club need a revamp (as Mayer has said) and that willl help limit these soft muscle injuries. However, all the soft muscle ones have been manageable so far and the players involved should be back round 1/2\. Lets hope it stays that way.
 
The worst thing about injuries is listening to the ''woah is us'' crap every time a player goes down. All clubs get injuries, not just us.
 
Moltzen jumped in the air to catch a ball, landed and his knee cap just cracked in half. Freak injury as there was nothing to suggest otherwise…Halatau had a forward fall on the back of his leg which will generally cause some sort of injury given players are moving at speed and opposite forces etc...Sirro, well if he took an injury into the game, then that could be asking for trouble. In this case it appears to be so.

In any event, while we need updated training facilities, I don't think the current ones are to blame for the injuries.
 
@willow said:
Moltzen jumped in the air to catch a ball, landed and his knee cap just cracked in half. Freak injury as there was nothing to suggest otherwise…Halatau had a forward fall on the back of his leg which will generally cause some sort of injury given players are moving at speed and opposite forces etc...Sirro, well if he took an injury into the game, then that could be asking for trouble. In this case it appears to be so.

In any event, while we need updated training facilities, I don't think the current ones are to blame for the injuries.
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Surely sironen playing with a needled up pre existing injury after his shoulder was a dumb decision? Whether its potter or sirro's fault, without him on the field for say 10 games, we will lose a few I think by not having him there. Sure it's chance injury but that decision could mean the top 8 or worst hand us the Wooden spoon in context. Sirro should be treated as marque IMO.

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We need to have a playing group that can man up with every side in the competition man on man

The reason we get injuries and usually a few mid season is the fact these guys have to play above themselves week in week out and something finally has to give

Look at many of our seasons , we get off to reasonable start look like possible Top 8 side and end up with Danny Galea playing prop because we don't have the fire power
 
@happy tiger said:
We need to have a playing group that can man up with every side in the competition man on man

**The reason we get injuries and usually a few mid season is the fact these guys have to play above themselves week in week out and something finally has to give**

Look at many of our seasons , we get off to reasonable start look like possible Top 8 side and end up with Danny Galea playing prop because we don't have the fire power
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really?
 
@innsaneink said:
Storms Matt Duffie out for the season…ruptured ACL at training
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thats a shame. out of curiosity, how many here have done their acl? and have they always been as prevalent an injury as they seem to have been in the last 20 years or so?

i did mine when i was 21 and it was because i was a typical young guy who did lots of upper body weights whilst maintaining my massive (not!) chicken leg muscles. i played afl at the time and did it simply pulling up after chasing the ball over the boundary line.

it was pretty funny actually, as my lower leg turned inwards whilst the upper leg went straight down and as it happened i let out the loudest expletive ever heard right in front of a very empty grandstand (early in a reserves game) so it reverberated for miles im sure!

after that i had the trainers strap it up, completed an extremely intense fitness test of running in a straight line for 20m and then went back on. every time i tried to run in anything not close to resembling a straight line i fell over!!

as i was coming off the ground a teammate passed it to me and i marked it. no one ran past for a handpass, so my last (non amateur) act in aussie rules was a kick that travelled all of 3m back to the guy standing the mark!!!! :roll
 
The Football gods look like they have taken the focus off us. I have been reading in the news of a lot of injuries to other clubs players.

Hopefully Sironen will be the last serious injury we hear about for 2014.
 
Yeh hes had a few serious injuries the last few years, knee and shoulder.

He did it yesterday apparently doing a ballwork session.

Hopefully Sironen will be the last serious injury we hear about for 2014.

That wont be happening
 
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