Quote: Rastrick Rhino "I think I understand what you are saying but I don't agree. To say a Pro RL player only works for 80 mins a week is both unfair and naïve.
They train most days of the week and play a very tough physical sport at great speed, some of the collisions are like car accidents.
I'll be willing to bet that you feel quite a lot better the day after work then an RL player does.
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If you ask any of the full time lads that have moved up from part time status I'm sure they will tell you how good it is compared to digging a trench at the side of the road all week. The conditioning staff at Headingley want shooting if Singo is tired after having played his last game a week before. Training and rehab will be tapered to deliver optimum performance on match day, and a week to prepare should mean no player is physically tired come matchday. He may still have a nagging injury that he is struggling to shake off, and he may well ache a few days after a tough game, but to me tiredness is something a tennis player gets at Wimbledon when he has played 3 matches in 3 days in 90 degree heat on centre court, or an athlete who runs in the 10k one day and then goes out and competes in the 5k the following day. We are only a third of the way through the season, tired is something that a player playing parts of an 80 minute game should never be at this stage.