Injury Curse Continues for Code-Jumping Tourists

As high-profile National Rugby League players head north to France and across the rugby code barrier for big rugby union money, they seem to be having bad luck with injuries. Last year, Craig Gower left the Penrith Panthers and off-the-field scandals for Bayonne, but had some injury troubles in his new setting.

Then, high-profile convert Sonny Bill Williams skipped town on the Canterbury Bulldogs to star briefly for Toulon before breaking his leg.

Now, Mark Gasnier, who stunned St. George-Illawara by leaving for exquisitely-kitted Stade Francais, has succumbed to an ankle injury.

Given the strange trend, all we can say is that we hope that Luke Rooney, another Penrith player bound for France this year, is going to be careful!

At least Gasnier got to dot this debut try down before he came up hurt: