What injury? The guy has basically had serious injury after serious injury at the rate of about one a year throughout his entire career.
Why suddenly this year are his errors unacceptable when they weren't last year or the year before? I'm certainly not denying the errors. He's always made them. He has terrible hands. Some people just do.
There have definitely been times in the past when he has come back from injury and clearly still been hampered and unable to stretch out, but right now isn't one of them. He looks in good physical shape atm and is moving well. This much should have been obvious in recent weeks when he ran down the likes of Inglis and Ferguson. When he's below par we get situations like last year where even Blake Ayshford made him look slow.
He's playing nothing like he was, though. Errors were unacceptable before because for a start there weren't that many of them, relatively speaking, and for a second he'd run tries in for fun even in a below par team with no attacking potency.
When Manu went down last year a lot of Warriors fans were signaling the season over, and not all of them were joking. His impact was seen as that crucial and significant at the time, and with reason.
If Manu went down today most people wouldn't bat an eyelid. He's been nowhere near as good. Nothing of the sort.
People are changing their opinions because he's no longer the most damaging left winger in the game, he's not even in contention
