jonh wrote:It’s not just what goes on, on the pitch, it’s to do with peaking the players at the right time.
Peet mentioned a few times during the off season they would look to peak for the WCC game. Training would be different more intense and demanding over a sustained period of weeks prior to that game much different to how they would normally go into a season.
It’s possible to peak 2-3 times over the course of the season. With all things after a peak there needs to be a trough to assist recovery and get the bodies back on track.
I think training intensity will have dropped off for the last few weeks post Penrith which is reflected in our lethargic performances.
I think it will have been ramped up again, but not to pre Penrith levels, prior to this match.
I think we will have looked at the fixtures post Penrith and used it as a deliberate active recovery period post the WCC.
And the trough has been the less than convincing performances over the last few weeks and the opposition we have come up against, if we are not over that by now then like I said the S&C need to take a serious long look at themselves.
Like you said, training will no doubt have adapted post WCC, possibly more rest days than normal but it's time to move on from it, get back to the regular season and stop talking about 'hangovers' the only hangovers the players should have now is from the beers they drink post games
