I must confess that I havent had much of a chance to see the team play as yet, so my opinion is pretty much based on a little tv and match pics but...

I am slightly concerned that many of our players, not least Murrell look a little on the chunky side!!

I might be a little chunky myself nowadays but I guess I am not a semipro sportsman!

Just a bit shocked more than anything as I would have thought young, ambitious sportsmen would

be a good size but trim. Anyone else think this is a problem?

The effort on Thursday night wouldn't suggest so. Don't forget, in our day there were no Nando's. Nowadays you can't move for RL players smashing a Nando's. The game has definitely changed. Gym work is much more of a requirement than it was in our glory days of the eighties where exercise came in the form of eating giant Yorkshire puddings and jumping over canal bridges so I think the bulk is muscle . Our players today are just bigger boned

Don't think this years shirts are very flattering. Don't forget they weren't custom fit last year so the same shirt had to fit different size player leading to looser fitting shirts.

Deffo got out fair share of salad dodgers, Penky and Ellis will have a field day against us.

Agreed. Thing is they are all good players who can play well, if a bit more professionalism fitness/diet /weight wise was taken they would be even better players. Don't get me wrong they are good players who are playing well but theres still the potential to be even better. Sadly I think the mentality of some players in this league is its a hobby, unless your a young player looking to make it in the game or super league theres no incentive to really look after yourself.



Take Dickens for example, never going to be in super league yet looks after himself and its paid dividends in his career at this level. Be the best you can be even at this level. Sadly too many players do the bare minimum to compete at this level and waste the potontial they have. Murrel is a good player and can see and open a gap yet doesnt have any pace to go through it, dropping a stone or 2 would surely benefit his game massively.



I run marathons now due to the knees being shot from rugby and with each half a stone I lose I notice a massive difference in my speed, recovery time, fitness, cardio capacity and lung capacity, losing a stone or 2 totally changes you. I think a few of our good players can easily become better players from getting a bit leaner. It just depends how serious they take being a semi pro athlete and if they want to improve from being a good player to an even better one.