Comments on: Wallabies call up two players to World Cup squad

By: Pete Cresswell

Pete Cresswell — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:00:50 +0000

Wales’ injury list is certainly high. Other countries have lost 1 or 2 each, which doesn’t feel too different.

One wonders about the Welsh build up – they put in a lot of work that seems to have made them the fittest NH team (though they’re probably still a ways off NZ, Aus and SA). Did they cram in to much too fast, to the detriment of their injury rate?

By: Matt B

Matt B — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 09:56:16 +0000

I was wondering the same thing about the number of injuries so far. I know World Cups bring a fair amount of injuries but we’re two games in (plus 3 or 4 warms ups) and the number of injuries ruling players out seems high, but maybe it isn’t compared to past WC’s?

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 09:17:49 +0000

Muscles get bigger tendons don’t therefore lots of ligaments style injuries and dislocations as players grow

By: brighty

brighty — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:48:54 +0000

General chatter amongst Aus fans is that this seems to be no big loss – Palu is too old and Skelton too young. Feel sorry for the guys themselves but doesn’t seem to be a considerable effect on the team – many feel the call ups are better players.

I was also wondering that Blub. Cory Allan got me thinking – trained hard, plays 50 mins of rugby and tears his hamstring. This doesn’t happen to us enthusiastic amateurs so it must be some result of the conditioning?

By: Blub

Blub — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:32:34 +0000

is it just me, or does it seem that there are far more injuries in this WC than ever before?

Are players over-conditioned and more fragile?

Or – are players just bigger, more powerful – and therefore causing too many injuries in contact?