Staying Home | Billy Smith Extends

[King Salvo]

Proudly born and raised in the Eastern Suburbs, Billy Smith announces he's not going anywhere.

https://www.roosters.com.au/news/202...smith-extends/

[roosterchook]

Questionable signing when his injury prone record is considered. Let’s hope he’s not getting paid to sit on the sideline.

[Carlos Parra]

Questionable signing when his injury prone record is considered. Let’s hope he’s not getting paid to sit on the sideline.

I wince every time he gets tackled. I do the same with Walker.

Fingers are crossed he has an injury free run in 2024.

[Bates]

Questionable signing when his injury prone record is considered. Let’s hope he’s not getting paid to sit on the sideline.

If you role a 1 three consecutive times, it doesn't mean you're any more or less likely to role another 1.Same applies with injuries. Billy was unlucky!

[The Lip]

If you role a 1 three consecutive times, it doesn't mean you're any more or less likely to role another 1.Same applies with injuries. Billy was unlucky!

True for the dice - not for the injury I'm afraid. However that aside I'm very pleased Billy has extended.

[zac]

great news. as always with the salary cap the question is how much he's on but he really looked good last year and with manu going he'll have a role to play

[Bates]

True for the dice - not for the injury I'm afraid. However that aside I'm very pleased Billy has extended.

Hi Lip, I'd be curious to know if that's just your opinion or is there a sports science based case that backs up your theory.

[ism22]

True for the dice - not for the injury I'm afraid. However that aside I'm very pleased Billy has extended.

It all depends. For example guys like Teddy started off being injury prone and then found a way forward. Can't remember the last time he sustained a serious injury?

My experience as the world's greatest runner (ask Andy) is that all injuries have a mechanism. A lot of runners (a relevant sport because it's often the running rather than the contact that cripples NRL players.... think ACL/achilles versus broken bones/muscle tears) are constantly injured because of flaws in their training

Yes some people are just built stronger. However as somebody who many would place in that category (I'm also apparently 'naturally slim' and all such things according to those who don't )... I don't buy that everything's just luck.

IMO you make your own luck. On running forums there's people trying to run the same marathon times as me with roughly 1/2 the workload (including minimal base training... which annoys me because it's so slow but I spent ~30 months JUST doing long, slow stuff in order to build-up my base fitness. Lotsa people refuse and are doing super fast stuff over shorter distances during that period. No surprises when they suffer injuries / burn-out and lack the requisite base fitness when the going gets tough).

If Billy's done his rehab + has a couple of full NRL pre-seasons under his belt then I see no reason why he should be inherently prone to injuries. He survived just fine last season and is looking fitter than ever! I'm backing him to have a great season and doubt we woulda signed him long-term if club doctors were saying 'this guy's a lemon'. He's had what... shoulders, knees and a jaw? All unrelated and fixable. His body's looking fitter than ever so IMO his injury-plagued days are over. He's matured, gotten fitter and is hitting his prime years!!

[zac]

you'd figure his injury history would be factored into how much we paid him. doubt he'd be on a huge amount. if he spends the next four years on the sidelines we've lost a small bet; if he stays fit - the sky's the limit. not crazy to say that if he strings a couple of injury free seasons together he'd be knocking on the door of origin

[The Lip]

Hi Lip, I'd be curious to know if that's just your opinion or is there a sports science based case that backs up your theory.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art...ured%20athlete.

here's one article specifically about ACL injuries but I dont proclaim that this article is anymore correct than another that may say different - you can find articles on the net that proclaim Hitler was a good guy!

I'm more just going off experience - if an athlete experiences hammy tears or calf tears they invariably come back again don't they? The tear that is. Injuries have a habit of repeating in these athletes in high intensity sports like NRL. I hope the kid stays injury free as I like the way he plays and love seeing him have success after having such an awful time of it early in his career with injury. I love the way he loves the club and wants to repay the faith they had in him and I respect his tenacity in sticking with it.

[roosterchook]

If you role a 1 three consecutive times, it doesn't mean you're any more or less likely to role another 1.Same applies with injuries. Billy was unlucky!

Let’s hope so. Some players just keep getting injured don’t know why and they seem to be the same ones.