I've mentioned multiple times going back several months, that the tactics being used and the game style we play isn't sustainable with our list, we have heavy hitters and earth movers and we are trying to play a run and gun sprint style. It's not sustainable, and that shows in the results, we do it for a quarter, maybe a half, but we can't do it for four qtrs. Trying to push down this path will lead to exactly what we've found, fatigue and injury.
Ultimate fitness is not the problem, we frequently finish off last qtrs running over teams, that's because when they lose their legs from playing the unsustainable game style and we still have the earth movers like Walsh, Cripps, Hewett and Kennedy ploughing on.
Further more, in the absence of achieving a bye in finals, run and gun is an unsustainable game style, even if you have the list you'll almost never out run a team that has fresh legs from a week off. You need a lot of luck, low injuries, plenty of options and a damaged opponent to have a chance. It's the pot luck strategy.
It's the stupidity of going down the "obvious path" driven by the stats instead of recognising there needs to be more than one way to win. The problem isn't the list, the problem is a myopic focus on a particular game style as the only winning formula.
Ultimate fitness is not the problem, we frequently finish off last qtrs running over teams, that's because when they lose their legs from playing the unsustainable game style and we still have the earth movers like Walsh, Cripps, Hewett and Kennedy ploughing on.
Further more, in the absence of achieving a bye in finals, run and gun is an unsustainable game style, even if you have the list you'll almost never out run a team that has fresh legs from a week off. You need a lot of luck, low injuries, plenty of options and a damaged opponent to have a chance. It's the pot luck strategy.
It's the stupidity of going down the "obvious path" driven by the stats instead of recognising there needs to be more than one way to win. The problem isn't the list, the problem is a myopic focus on a particular game style as the only winning formula.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"