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NRL 2022: Kevin Walters reveals Broncos stars have complained about punishing pre-season​


Peter Badel
Tuesday, February 22

Kevin Walters says he has put Brisbane’s high-performance program under the microscope after fielding “complaints” from Broncos stars that they were being overtrained on the eve of this year’s premiership.


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Bunch of sooks.

Push em harder Kevvie, make them puke after each session, and if they don't like it, tell them there is plenty of brick laying jobs available.

These kids wouldnt have lasted one season back when footy players had to keep real jobs while training and playing playing footy each week.
 
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.
 
Hopefully what he means is they didn't complain every day, so he needs to toughin it up.

Poor little princesses. Bench anyone that whinges. Fuckem.
 
HarryAllan7 said:
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.
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I hear Michael Jordan puts all of his success down to being delicate little flowers at training, accepting everyone’s different wants and needs and promoting a relaxed and calm training environment, never pushing himself or anyone else further than they felt comfortable. If it hurt, you were doing it wrong.

He is also on record as saying if he and the team had trained hard, he seriously doubts they’d ever have achieved two three-peats in the same decade, as that sort of success only comes from doing the bare minimum.
 
Not enough context.

Is it dudes that have gone beyond training expectations but now have a couple of niggles and have let the coach know? Or, is it dudes that have come into camp way under done and have got niggles because of it?

big difference.
 
I think it’s possible that people are getting a false impression of this..these guys have been doing work required to be ready for an NRL season since November - they’re fit. But with matches now happening, managing the fatigue that is generated from hard training becomes a very important consideration. Players need to be fresh enough to ‘express’ their fitness.
I would hazard a guess that this is the issue players have discussed - that they’re carrying too much fatigue into games.
 
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