krisleeds wrote:
Lets not forget these are PROFESSIONAL sportsmen who are PAID MONEY to play the game.
These are not people who work full time in an office and train twice a week.
Its NO excuse for poor fitness nor playing too many games meaning they are crap.
This is NOT soccer.
PS - Roosters put 40 on Skints. Roosters are 2nd bottom of the NRL - go figure.
No working full time in an office and training twice a week is far, far easier.
Soccer has exactly the same problems as RL. Poor amateur and youth coaching and too many games in too short a time period.
Very very few RL players aren't fit enough. We're talking less than 0.5%.
They might not be conditioned in the right way. They might be too big, or not big enough. But there's a tiny proportion who aren't fit enough.
These fellas are taking massive impacts that are far in excess of anything that happens on an amateur pitch and they're taking far, far more of them. It doesn't matter how well prepared you are for that there is a limit as to how quickly you can recover from it. We've all felt a bit sore the next morning after an amateur game. These lads are struggling to get down stairs and to walk the next morning and the effects last until about the Tuesday or Wednesday after a Friday night game.
No, these definitely aren't people who work in an office and train twice a week.
