Rumours and Stuff

[I'm a loser baby...]

Oh yeah i forgot the 3 players below 100k ... so they get 75k each = 150k ... lane played all last yeah at manly ... i will bet my nuts he is top17

I reckon he probably is. He was very good for Manly this year.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I could understand that for a bunch of new recruits who had just joined the army or something but most of these guys have been here for years. They should know their character by now. And at this point it might just seem to even the best of them that they are being punished for Arthur's and the team's failure.

Well they can’t very well let the blokes they’ve already decided not to keep stay in bed while their team mates do a smash session.

 

[hindy111]

Its one f**ken morning FFS.

Thats enough to throw the mechanics right out.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

FFS, some wouId complain if we did the same training as last year, and now the coach is being questioned for trying to change things around!!

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”

At least BA is trying new things!!

 

[Gary Gutful]

Seems like a gimmick to me. Are we planning to deprive them of sleep before footy games?

Yes. They will be depriving them of sleep before every game. That’s exactly why they are doing it. In fact they will ask @El Diablo to sit on their faces @3am and rub his sweaty arse crack all over them.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

The whole "trying to offload xxxxx" is a bit of creative licence by journos .... i am sure every single players who has 1 yr to run on their deal has their manager approach their club for an extention .... if the club isnt willing to commit 12 months out, then the manager wants to negotiate a deal elsewhere and potentially go there immediately .... and i reckon often the current club will just say ok if the players isnt great - cool free up some cap room ..... this ends up, "player unwanted, being shopped around"

Its a result of the nrl rules about being able to negotiate 12 months from end of your contract

This 100%

“We’re not offering an extension” becomes “We want you gone yesterday!” because journalists sell drama, not facts.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Why wpuld they shop Evans around. He was only purchased as depth right so would be on a minimal contract and privdes good depth.
Hahaha

If he’s been told he’s free to leave with 2+ years to run he is obviously outside the top 17.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Age, injuries, fatigue and character can be consistent too.

Character is the only one of those things that might be considered consistent. And even then, poor character can be mitigated by good leadership.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Yes. They will be depriving them of sleep before every game. That’s exactly why they are doing it. In fact they will ask @El Diablo to sit on their faces @3am and rub his sweaty arse crack all over them.

Then it makes some sense.

 

[Dibs]

BA pulled a suprise 3am training session. f**k am I the only one that think he is running low on ideas with 1990s training stunts? Lol

Its good enough for the storm. Is Bellamy using ideas from the 1990s? If so maybe we should do more stuff from then

 

[Poupou Escobar]

How is age consistent? You age consistently one year at a time therefore you are getting older consistently therefore age is consistently moving forward and over time you can't do the things that you once could as a professional Footballer.

Typical pessimist death rider. Age is only a negative for the older players. Many players in an NRL squad are young enough that getting a year older improves them rather than detracting from their performances.

How do injuries never heal? Some do and others never do, to the point that you are never as good as you once were before the injury(ies).

How do you stay fatigued if you are able to rest and recover? Over time with the punishment that an NRL player has to endure, chronic fatigue can and does become an issue for a lot of players as father time and all of the above start to add up. That is why it is so, so hard for players to have a 10+ year career in the NRL playing at their best year in year out and why so many of them pull the pin in their late 20's, early thirties and head of to England or retire. I'll grant you that with modern practices the sports boffins have managed to prolong the careers of many player way past what was once possible and why we are seeing so many 300+ game players recently, but they of course are still the exception.

There are two reasons so many blokes are playing until their mid-30s.

The obvious one is sports science. The workload is managed scientifically these days to maximise performance while ensuring longevity.

The other reason is money. Even an old bloke at the bottom end of the top 30 is earning more than most people. Ten years ago he would’ve earnt more devoting that time to working on a building site.

I suspect Mau, even though he hasn't had that long a career in the NRL, is feeling all the things that I mentioned because with his smaller size and the intensity that he likes to play at, it has taken a lot out of him. My thoughts are that he at best will have one more year of high quality(more or less) baring injury and then he will fade even more noticeably.

Well that’s good because he only has a year to run on his contract.

 

[Dibs]

It is a bit of a wank. How will that help us?

Sorry but 3am sessions are useless if you can’t catch a f**king football.

You do realize preseason training this far out from the season starting is about fitness? There is plenty of things to whinge about with the eels, this is not one of them

 

[Dibs]

Seems like a gimmick to me. Are we planning to deprive them of sleep before footy games?

Are you deliberately being ignorant? Because normally I find you quite level headed. Our mental strength is one of our many issues.!these type of exercise are done to build up your mental strength. If you can perform tired, sleep deprived and under extreme circumstances, then performing under better conditions should be a breeze

 

[Poupou Escobar]

If we signed Davey and Sivo on anything more than the rookie contract of $72.5k, then the club has got rocks in their head. These are two players with ZERO experience at the NRL Level.

Lane has never been considered a Top 17 player and no club he has been to before has given him a second gig after being at the club. If his contract starts with anything other than a 1 then he is being over paid.

Lane’s form was very good this year. His contract would start with a 2.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It doesn't take a genius to recognise that dead men walking will often try crazy stuff in hopes of staving off the inevitable.

It’s not ‘crazy stuff’. I’d say it happens at nearly every one of these training camps.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Are you deliberately being ignorant? Because normally I find you quite level headed. Our mental strength is one of our many issues.!these type of exercise are done to build up your mental strength. If you can perform tired, sleep deprived and under extreme circumstances, then performing under better conditions should be a breeze

I'm tired and cranky and thus more cynical than usual. But I do think this boot camp style stuff is a bit of a fad and something I had thought was on the wane.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

It’s not ‘crazy stuff’. I’d say it happens at nearly every one of these training camps.

I was just exaggerating. But I think it has the potential to do more harm than good.

 

[Snoochies]

Don't the storm do a bootcamp and sleep derive their players? I guess its about getting stronger mentally. Get up at 3am, get on with it, don't complain. The coach maybe wanted to see which players stood up and which ones moaned like many here.

 

[Soren Lorenson]

I heard some bloke on the Abc talking about how the All Blacks train to go up a gear in the final 20 mins of a game. It's why they are almost unbeatable. I don't know the details of how they do it but it would almost certainly include some sort of training while fatigued. If that's what the staff is trying to achieve then I can see the point.

 

[Gazzamatta]

I heard some bloke on the Abc talking about how the All Blacks train to go up a gear in the final 20 mins of a game. It's why they are almost unbeatable. I don't know the details of how they do it but it would almost certainly include some sort of training while fatigued. If that's what the staff is trying to achieve then I can see the point.

A excellent point. Over the years many clubs practice this vrs our Eels and we can never go with them.
Hopefully AJ has them in better condition than The AFL Merkin last season.