Injury times are tough

The season is now start to gather momentum now, teams are starting to get to grips with whats working for them and more importantly whats not! Teams have a few weeks of footage to analyse and I am sure many coaches will be analysing this looking for trends and common flaws in their own teams play and also the oppositions. I suppose Leeds have stepped out the blocks very well and will go into the world club challenge full of confidence, they face Melbourne Storm a team full of pace and guided by the guile and smarts of Cooper Cronk(great Aussie name). Melbourne and Leeds are two sides blessed with pace in abundance and I am sure it will be an amazing game and lets hope Leeds can follow our victory over the Brisbane broncos last year!
I have been missing recently from the saints team due to injury, in the season opener i damaged my medial ligaments in my knee and I am 3 weeks into a rehab programme that will get me back playing I am hoping this will be sooner rather than later.It is funny I have not played in the 2nd game of the Super league season for 3 years now I am jinxed!!
I have started running again though and Matt Viljoen our physio is working me very hard to ensure i am right when I return, I suppose being a physio is a tough job you only really interact with the players when they have received bad news, they must get on the wrong side of a few bad tempered and bottom lip dragging players. Fortunately Matt also has a very melancholy demeanour and suits working under the influence of sadness!!!
Its often the case when your injured you end up training harder than the boys who are playing! I am becoming very close friends with the perimeter of our training pitch and I have started talking to the dumbells in the gym(that's when a few of the boys are not using them to sculpt their arms-Fozz) I will be happy to get back on the field whenever that is, its a much more fun!
Its always nice when you receive a blow like an injury that all the team and people who support you help out in anyway possible,I would like to thank Simon at James Edwards land rover Chester as he gave me an automatic vehicle for the first week or so! it enabled me to get around and keep my spirits up. Thanks so much to them for that!
I thought i would take this opportunity to tell you that superstitions still exist in our game, some people this weekend will be getting changed in a specific place and in a specific order around the Super league grounds, some players will have edited a play list of favourite songs to inspire them but at StHelens we have unearthed the oddest of all superstitions, one young player steals labels from luxury clothing, keeping several down his sock during training and games, he often removes them and fondles the silky labels and rubs them under his nose to comfort himself.....I think its brilliant....obviously this must remain a secret due to the nature of the superstition, dont worry. I myself dont really have any apart from when we play at home I always write the older members of staffs names on the strapping list in the physio room, Stan Wahl our Kit man is due to have his knees, hips and shoulders strapped but it is yet to happen!!
It Wakefield for us and a massive challenge as they will be wounded following a defeat to harlequins! they are a big side and will threaten us, so we must continue to improve as the weeks go on! good luck chaps