Fitness Of The Players!

[turf]

Maybe, but I wouldn't know.

[pedro]

To be fair it's their second game in a week. Warrington and Castleford were both shattered by half time in their game today so it's not just Wigan.

catalans play 2 in a week?

[jackoh]

It`s not the fitness of our players which is lacking , but the lack of skill , tonight for example as in the Saints game , once we got behind we`ld no idea in how to come back Or even close the game down once in front .
We tried risking passes which didn`t come off , Fielden can`t carry a ball with all he`s experience , Ainscough overruns Pryce twice .
Bailey giving away daft penalties again .
These issues lost us the game , giving Catalans all that ball and not having the SKIll to keep them out , doesn`t bode well for the rest of the season .

[turf]

It`s not the fitness of our players which is lacking , but the lack of skill , tonight for example as in the Saints game , once we got behind we`ld no idea in how to come back Or even close the game down once in front .
We tried risking passes which didn`t come off , Fielden can`t carry a ball with all he`s experience , Ainscough overruns Pryce twice .
Bailey giving away daft penalties again .
These issues lost us the game , giving Catalans all that ball and not having the SKIll to keep them out , doesn`t bode well for the rest of the season .

Wouldn't their be a case of at least once (the forward pass incident) that Pryce should see Ainscough in front of him and KNOW not to pass him the ball?

But again, with Radders by his side, Ainscough will learn.

[mickh]

Ainscough's fault there then Turf isnt it, being in front of Pryce took out an option, which left Catalans in a win-win situation on that play?

[turf]

I was asking though, what would be wrong with Pryce thinking to himself that option 1 (Ainscough to his left) isn't available, so I will try option 2 which would havve been passing to someone to his right hand side instead.

[lucky 13]

I was asking though, what would be wrong with Pryce thinking to himself that option 1 (Ainscough to his left) isn't available, so I will try option 2 which would havve been passing to someone to his right hand side instead.

It's almost like a reaction though , even though your brain tells you not to you just cant stop, it's a split second thing the winger goes full steam thinking the ball will be released a fraction earlier and ends up in front the center who wants to release his winger is a fraction slow but cant stop releasing the ball just adjusting to hit the winger makes it forward. It's very annoying .

[THE 18th Man]

Catalans do more traveling than us and travelled from london after a grueling match so Stamina should have nothing to do with it

[turf]

It's almost like a reaction though , even though your brain tells you not to you just cant stop, it's a split second thing the winger goes full steam thinking the ball will be released a fraction earlier and ends up in front the center who wants to release his winger is a fraction slow but cant stop releasing the ball just adjusting to hit the winger makes it forward. It's very annoying .

So Ainscough just can't help running along with Pryce? Also, who is it annoying from? Ainscough or Pryce?

Also is this just getting carried away/inexperience from Ainscough, i.e, part of his learning curve? It surely ain't a fitness thing with him, lets put it that way!!

[lucky 13]

This maybe in the wrong place, but just wanted to understand a bit more about this "conditioning" people post about. I take it that all players will be doing lots of various weight programmes, and cardio-vascular work, so what does conditioning consist of?

Looking at Fekka and Riddel it's what they do after shampooing and thats it.