By Luke Myring, Coventry Telegraph. January 11 2012
UNFORTUNATELY we started 2012 as we ended 2011 – losing! That makes it four on the bounce and a little more than a blip. On Saturday against what was on the day a poor Sedgley Park side we should have never left the door open for them to come back into the game.
At 14-0 in front we should have put the nail in the coffin and ruthlessly gone for the jugular. Instead we switched off and as I have said on many occasions before this season, if you do that in this league you will leak points very quickly and be punished.
We can only apologise to the fans and promise that we are doing everything to put things back together.
No one plays badly or wants to lose on purpose, the squad are giving everything and we are all in this together, both when we win and – more importantly – when we lose and so please remain positive and stay behind the team.
On Saturday we picked up what looks to be another bad injury to Benjamin Dechartres as injuries are slowly taking their toll on the squad. Injuries happen in rugby and to every team but the amount we have had recently – and to key players such as Nash, Benji, Pricey and Miller and myself to name a few – is just pure bad luck.
Full-time teams plan sessions daily for players to do prehab (injury prevention training) and when guys do have an injury they have all day every day to do physio, rehab and all sorts of training to get back not just fit but fitter and stronger than before.
In the past when I have had bad injuries I have been able to dedicate 8-10 hours a day to the injury to get back as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately in our league there isn’t the budget or resource for the boys to be able to do this and – more importantly – a lot of the boys work in the day and just don’t have the time and so any injury has more of an effect on the squad.
This is a tough league, every week is a physical battle and injuries will happen. That’s the nature of our sport, let’s just hope we have now had our share for this season and for a speedy recovery for Benji and all of the injured guys.
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