Apparently souths are willing to let Tom burgess go. It's a no brainer to get him over if it's all true cuthbo wants to leave to go back to nrl.

Ah, the Kirke effect strikes again.

The conditioning isn't a problem. We look knackered more in games because we aren't dominating them like we did last year.

Unable to win collisions in defence and having to defend constant quick PTB's, handling errors in our own half gifting teams easy ball near our line, poor last tackle options meaning we either produced a poor kick or didn't get a kick away at all meaning we weren't making teams go 80/90m against us.....all reasons why you end up looking more knackered in games.

We've started winning collisions, whilst still not great our last tackle plays/kicks have been a bit better and low and behold we've had the energy to win games late on in the last few weeks.

I agree that the bigger issue is likely to be the fact we're winning collisions and play the balls and have a hooker who helps in that regard.

We probably can't entirely discount an issue with the conditioning but we don't really know either way.

However my point was that if the conditioning this year is wrong, then last year it must've been right. So it would seem a knee-jerk reaction to get rid of a highly valued member of the team at Headingley, based solely on this season.

Let the ball do the work. Obviously not in defence but the more possession you have, the harder the opposition has to work to shut down plays and the more points you score the fitter everyone looks.
Hit it one up all the time in easily anticipated runs, drop it a lot and kick poorly and you end up very tired.

Yep