Should we be concerned with the amount of injuries in the NRL? – SEN THE CAPTAIN’S RUN

Denan Kemp and Cameron Smith discuss the incredible injury list from Round 3 of the NRL

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Now let’s get to uh some injury news okay so I want to read out to you this is over the last week just the last week alone and I might actually even be missing some of the you know The fringer Fringe players but the last week alone

Mitch Moses foot fracture up to eight weeks R Welsh face fracture 4 to 6 weeks Nathan clear hamstring 2 to 4 Lindsey Collins hamstring 2 to four Scott sson knee 3 to four Bryce cartright who has been named this week uh but it’s says he

Could be out for up to 6 to 8 weeks I mean if he’s broken his ribs I don’t know why he’d be playing this that’d be Insanity um Toby Rudolph foot four weeks D fukan concussion a week uh t a piki concussion a week Tino ACL done season

Cotter ankle one to two weeks cam Murray has limped off training Brendan P cot limped off training and will not play this weekend sandon Smith elbow 3 to six weeks that is in one week of rugby league H what do is there a concern here

Smiy is there is this just a really bad you know unlucky week what do you reckon yeah I I think um on the most part like if you look at some of those a lot of them uh so like you know face fracture um head knocks um foot fracture for Mitch Moses

That’s they’re a little bit unlucky um but when you look at the soft tissue stuff like the hamstrings um even ACL with big Tino you’re that’s they the concerning ones um for me anyway and this has been a recurring thing with with Nathan clear if you remember it was

Last year wasn’t he did his hamstring just about six weeks so um I don’t know I like is it is it because of the current game and the way it’s played um I don’t know just this weekend it just seems like there there’s just Carnage for all the players playing out there

And um I guess that that’ll be a discussion that would be going around the clubs at the moment is is are we is the game and the form in which it’s played at the moment is it looking after the players um as far as injuries concerned

Or are we just seeing more and more soft tissue injuries because there’s no doubt there’s there is no doubt about it um the game has never been faster um than it is right now in which the way it’s played with particularly with new rules that have been introduced kmy um and

Also adding to that I don’t think the ball in play time which is you know the amount of time that you see the actual the players actually playing so not not including when the ball’s kicked in a touch or it goes dead or you’re waiting for a Dropout or a kickoff the actual

Ball in play time has never been as high and there’s been rules changed uh to make it that way I think that’s the NRL were concerned about how much dead time there was that’s why the scrum was removed um and now that there’s it’s a quick change over where the ball goes

Into touch and the the the opposing team just brings it infield and plays the ball so there’s no doubt there’s more stress on the players bodies and they’re playing enormous amounts of games as well mate this is you know I understand sometimes when the RPA and the NRL Clash

Uh last year I think it was and it’s very hard for a fan because you’re sitting there you’re going I love this game come on boys like I wish I could play rugby league and you a winging about amount of games you play and

You’re on a big Wicket so I get it I understand where the fans are coming from with that but this is why the rlpa in my opinion dug their heels in so much about the NRL being able to add on more games without having to ask him I think

It was two that the NRL was saying each year they could add two or something along those lines um look I would I’m happy to see the stats and compare it year on year and also you know maybe even decade decade on decade and maybe just because we’re more focused on

Injuries these days but it definitely does feel like there’s been an increase in injuries and logically it seems like okay if we’re going to increase the muscle mass increase the weight the fitness the power the speed everything plus we’re going to increase the amount of uh repetitions of a game so the

Amount of games we do each week plus the training is going to be harder plus all like the in no areas of the game are we reducing the load or stresses on the body we we’ve only increased it and so I would love for there because the problem

Is is that this isn’t from a position of like oh poor rugby league players and and that you know being soft this is from a position of if you want the best product every week you need to protect the players from injuries yeah um because if you want the best product

Every week mate you need you need the players out there right exactly they are the product at the end of the day they are the product absolutely and and the reason I say that is like we’re all guilty of it when origin comes around how excited are you for Club footy

Honestly sorry is is it on exactly exactly and that’s and that’s coming from a fringy I’m a fringy so like I’m the guy that got the start you know um and so I do think that they may I hope they are looking into this and and really I understand more

Games equals more Revenue but more games that less quality does that equal more Revenue I’m not sure whether it does or it doesn’t love to hear your thoughts in the uh text guys 0457 736 736 um it’s it’s a conundrum because I get it it’s a product and when you you

Take that product you want to have the the most quantity of that product to people that are buyers which are the networks which are the you know punting all that kind of stuff uh do you am I off the mark smiy what what are your thoughts man I I think overall um it’s

Hard to know right without seeing um black and white numbers on because I’d like to think that the rlpa and the NRL I know the I’d like to think the clubs would at least have some sort of figures or stats um on how many injury injuries

That they that has been sustained in the NRL over the past couple of years I I think they do run numbers and and make sure that they stay on top of that um as a business if if you’re if you’re not doing that then it’s not an overly professional business right yeah um

Because you’re not you’re not taking care of the welfare of your employees but um yeah I don’t know like it’s hard to say is this a worse year than than we’ve seen in previous years and is it because of the games I I just think that

I just wanted to state that you know from from a players point of view the game has never been faster and and they’re playing more game time than they have in I think the last 15 years 20 years even yeah um you know with with the amount of time that the ball’s

Actually in play and and you’re right how you mentioned too that the body shape has changed so much like they are so big and strong these days massive like you look across the lineups of an NRL team like if if you ever get an opportunity live at a game and and

You’re sitting down almost on the ground level just have a look across like the 17 when they line up they are giant men giant well you there’s an argument most Wingers or a lot of the Wingers today would be front rowers 20 years ago genuinely yeah um with their size and

Their strength now I understand the front rowers if they got the same Sport Science that these players got would be bigger I get that but if you just took a a Winger like a few of the Wingers like your civo your toos your Blake Fergusons your you

Know d y all these these boys are big big boys and could play in the middle of you know 20 years ago or so um now yeah would love to hear your thoughts guys you know as I said it may be just because it’s the big name so we’re going

Whoa oh that’s a lot and maybe if we went back through the numbers there’s no difference and if there is no difference that that we would obviously sit here and say oh hey by the way guys we’ve got the numbers in there isn’t no difference

We just seem to be more focused on it uh because maybe the landscape has changed but we’re going to head to a break after the break we got plenty more rugby league to talk about plus your Tech