Everyone accepts the intensity in SL is nowhere near what it is in the NRL. We don't have anything that compares to Origin - even in its current dumbed-down state. Virtually every player who plays Origin on a Wednesday plays in the NRL at the weekend so they are playing two games a week three times in the year. Our players have an issue with doing this once at Easter and the standard/intensity of the final game shows how much the players struggle physically

And how much of this difference do you think is attributable to having two less interchanges, as opposed to the player pool, the national attitude to sport, the training facilities etc? The NRL is a superior competition which happens to have two less interchanges per game, not because of it.

I never suggested the extra fitness was down to 2 less interchanges - what I said was if we reduced the number of interchanges then it may impact positively on the overall standards of fitness of our players.

Maybe we could have less interchanges say 8 per game but more bench options say 6 players.

To clarify, Amor cannot be recalled to Leeds at any point in 2012, but they have until July 2012 to decide if they want him for the 2013 and 2014 seasons.

Not sure if this is what you are getting at or not

rlhttps://www.therhinos.co.uk/news/17643.phprl

I can't quite work out whether you're saying that Melbourne only had 2 players in their squad, or that Leeds had 48? Both seem unlikely to me.

Seems a crazy arrangement

It was, thanks for clarifying.

At 1st grade level in 2011 - All of them.

For Leeds - 36 (27 - Regular Rounds, 4 - Play-Offs, 5 - Challenge Cup)

For England - 6 (2 - Australia, 1 - New Zealand, France, Wales, Exiles)

(I don't keep any player records away from Leeds so I'll stand to be corrected on the England element but IIRC not only did he play in every available 1st grade game open to him in 2011 he also scored points in all of them also.)

I wonder how often that's been done. It actually requires quite a strange performance by the team to reach both finals and play in every single round of play-off fixtures doesn't it?

Plus the 4N final

I think that was covered as one of the 2 v Australia.....

For the second time in his career IIRC, having done it before in 2005?

Like I said I don't keep any meaningful player records outside of Leeds games so I was only taking a mental note on the International aspect of the season. Each England game I recall noting Sinfield's selection and whether he contributed to the scoresheet as he was clearly on a run of doing so for Leeds at the time and I felt it could prove to be a significant milestone if he remained 100%.



In 2005 Sinfield suffered a dislocated thumb in the opening ten minutes of a MOTM performance at home to Bradford on the 1st July. He missed the following five matches including the CC semi final V Toulouse at the McAlpine. Other than for those five games he were an ever scoring present though.

Sinfield's ever-present Leeds 1st grade seasons - 2001, 2003, 2007, 2011

Sinfield's ever-present + scoring Leeds 1st grade seasons - 2007, 2011