McAvoy injury?

[troutmaster]

Looks like young Liam is going to be out for a while,liam came off with a suspected broken ankle or ligament damage to the ankle.He will be a big loss to town, but, if it turns out to be his ankle, we hopefully can get someone from wigan until he recovers.Good luck liam,hope all go's well for you.

[DavidM]

Big big loss . Olstrum sitting in front of me , so he's there . And Stacky is all action and could easy fit in there with HORTON to come in on a flank . And Duerden to , so options for big Phil .

[Anonymouse]

very unlucky , feel for the lad as he had a big season ahead of him , hopefully its not as bad as is suspected .

[Town Army]

Massive blow but softened by the option of Olstrom, Fifita, Horton and Walker all to come in.

[Cato89]

Shame, he is , in my opinion our best forward, BUT this year, like all of you have mentioned ,we have a good squad with people to fill in for him!

McAvoy out Olstrum in.... Could you get a better replacement!

[ivans82]

gutted for the lad...big gap to fill.....time for someone to step up......hurry back liam lets hope the injury isn t too bad  .

[dkw]

Heard it's not as bad as it looked, ligament damage but should be back around 4 weeks.

[DavidM]

Really ? That's great

[Monkeydo]

Notice in the match report on the news and tat website that the reporter talked about the decision to award Wigan a scrum after Callum kicked through after collecting a knock on. That free play rule been changed for this season or something? Liam went over on his ankle just after that scrum, could've all been different if play had been brought back for a Town scrum

[Keith T]

Couldn't understand why Hewer didn't go back to the original knock-on by Wigan as there was no advantage to Town.   I don't think the rule has been changed from last season.

 

For those that didn't see it - Wigan player knocked on, Callum hacked the ball diagonally across the pitch and beat their player to the ball but as he collected it he was bundled in to touch.    Scrum given with feed to Wigan.

[DavidM]

Right keith , I was shouting for that at the time , and our players led by Stacky were telling Hewer clearly , but he wasn't having it . Callum obviously knew - it was a wrong decision I think .

[GeordieTownie]

I think he gave them the rub of the green 2nd half so they didn't get stuffed

[Guest]

Couldn't understand why Hewer didn't go back to the original knock-on by Wigan as there was no advantage to Town.   I don't think the rule has been changed from last season.

 

For those that didn't see it - Wigan player knocked on, Callum hacked the ball diagonally across the pitch and beat their player to the ball but as he collected it he was bundled in to touch.    Scrum given with feed to Wigan.

 

Original offence was on the halfway line and scrum was back on Wigan 5m line so maybe that is a reasonable advantage?

[The Voodooguru]

Original offence was on the halfway line and scrum was back on Wigan 5m line so maybe that is a reasonable advantage?

I thought that was the idea of the rule though to encourage attacking play. What's the point in it if the team that makes the error gets the ball back?

[DavidM]

I thought territory was irrelevant and the free play from an error meant you always got the ball back from the original error - as you making territory in it isn't as big an advantage of getting a full set of six

[Anonymouse]

exactly , there is no point in allowing freeplay from an error only to give the team in error the ball back .

[The Voodooguru]

Anyone know if Liam has any good news?