Re: R1 Carlton vs Power After-match Aftermath
Reply #174 –
It's quite true that we had a lot of players who weren't able to get a good pre-season under their belts
The problem is that the opportunity has now passed them by for 2014.
You cant make up for that 4-5 month period of tough pre-season conditioning work during the regular season otherwise you leave yourself stuffed for games.
With a couple of players you could possibly manage by rotating players through games, but not with around a dozen or more.
The lack of a foundation puts them behind the pack when the other variation of training loads comes into play.
Does this mean you think we're cooked for 2014 ?
I'm not going to call that on one game....but there will be individual players who won't have the season they otherwise would have had with a full pre-season base on which to build. Our problem is we have a few of those.
Translation: we're forked......