I suspect Potter is going to regret that statement, but must have got the figure from somewhere. are they doing 30% more stamina training, or cardiovascular training, or have they managed to increase their maximum heart rate level by 30%? whichever, as the above comment, does that mean they were unfit last season? At the end of the day its what we see on the pitch, and from the sound of it they do have a bit more endurance. To increase fitness by that amount would require really intense workouts, so is there another consequence of this 30%, that it has resulted in a lot of hamstring pulls etc that mean we are not seeing players on the pitch?

Maybe they where only 30% fit last season, now they are 60% fit down 3 NRL players comming in?

What a clown - I refer you all to my criticism of this mans performance and teams fitness levels last year, I'm not being clever either our weaknesses are so obvious, and as for our sports science genius this is a pretty indictment of what he's not been doing!

Its going to be a poor season guys and Potter's contract doesn't want renewing.......

I'm going until next year now, no point being on here stating the bleeding obvious all the time

But wouldn't that be 100% fitter than last season?

As someone said, most of Bradfdord's problems seem to be mental; whether that is lack of confidence or a lack of awareness of their & the oppositions game plan.

Good point. You could see the Catalan forwards run the ball in aggressively and in contact they dominated the collision, often enough to wrestle their arms free to get an offload or to make a quick play the ball. We seemed unable to do this anywhere near as well. In defence Catalans got three men into the tackle very often and slowed our PTB down so much our attack was nullified totally. When we tried this we got dominated in the collision and that led to us being caught around the ruck by Henderson.

IMO the cause for this is a lack of aggression, size and game awareness, and of course the fitness and endurance to keep up a decent level of intensity for 80mins. Most of those things we can address apart from the size and the aggression. Hopefully Manoakafoa and Elima will be back soon as we need some power up front. The likes of Hargreaves, Donaldson, Scruton and Sibbit are honest toilers but unless they're playing alongside some rough tough buggers they're going to get bullied.

Your right it is, clever clogs lol

It was late, but I think you got the gist of it!

Confidence, all McNamara's fault I tell yer!

fitter has nothing to do with talent. If you do not know how to position yourself to tackle it does not matter how fit you are. 30% fitter just means you can get behind the sticks quicker when the opposition are ready to take a conversion

What happened to the Us when Nobby was in charge, aggression and wouldn't be bullied thats my question?!! Bunch of puff's now lol no fight or aggression not saying knock the opp out obviously but a bit more urgency and passion would be nice!!!

the 30% he mentioned was in reference to the fitness tests we've been doing. as a team we're doing 30% better than we were before. whether or not that actually means 30% fitter or not is anyone's guess.

Encouraging news. Perhaps he means the new signing guys are ripped fitness freaks, compared to the players who have just left? That Ah Van didn't look the sort to spend too long in a gym, just look at his facial hair. Although someone seems to have put a rocket up him at Widnes.

Did you really just call our players puff's? The ignorance some of our fans show is disgusting

Well, he's right.

Puffs is a little harsh more like fairies.

Think you may have misheard. It's easy to mistake a 'sh' sound for a 'f' sound, so what actually appeared to be 30% fitter, was in fact....