Quote: Cheshire Tiger "You hear this at every club when things go wrong. There is nothing wrong with it. In fact some australian sides consider it vital to being a team and struggle when a player doesnt join in. I once spoke to Chris Anderson who said the best thing to do when a team is struggling is get on it for a day. The NRL has much bigger booze issues than us and it doesnt prevent them producing quality RL.
I dont 100% agree, but that has no bearing on the performances. I live in Warrington and they are always out in Stockton Heath where I live, my mates in Widnes, St Helens, Wigan and back home all report the same about their players.
The game has a booze culture. Nothing like it was pre super league, but its there alright. But I for one prefer that to the footballers in a hotel culture in the round ball game!!'"
In australia the clubs let them out but not in the run up to games,and given the bad publicity over there in drink related incidents are starting to clamp down on it. Plus their training regimes,strength & conditioning and diet plans they have in aus it probably doesn't effect performances. Not sure it applies to our players though.
