These blokes get paid an absolute fortune to play footy with their mates and then want to act like princesses when they have to do some real work. It's pathetic.
And it's not just work for the sake of work - it's getting flogged so that they can increase their strength, their fitness, their skills so that they can perform to a higher level and so that the team can perform to a higher level too. They're the ones who will reap the benefits from this hard training. Their game will improve, the team will perform better and both of those things will lead to more money, a longer career and more rep honours.
You'd think any professional sportsman would have the drive and commitment and desire to want to be pushed to the limit to be the best competitor they can be and achieve as much as possible. I wonder if any all-time greats decided to complain that training and preparation was 'too hard'.
Would they rather not get flogged in pre-season then get flogged on the field for 80 mins a game all year and finish nearly last again? These blokes need to pull their head in, show some toughness and get stuck in - this reeks of extreme entitlement and players thinking they're so supremely talented they can just show up, do the bare minimum and cash their massive paycheck.
They should go join the cricket team, they'd fit right in.
