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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainHook, post: 3015097, member: 8315"] Great article, [USER=9463]@Gaz[/USER] thanks heaps for posting. There was so much of value there but I wanted to focus on this point in particular. The Melbourne Storm always send new recruits to construction sites and other things like that. Didn't the Broncos do something similar? In one of Bennett's books he talks about a "no work, no play" policy. They had to do a few hours a week, even if it was just a shift at the Leagues Club or some yard work around Red Hill. The Gold Coast Titans do something similar to Melbourne. It's not translating into results on the field at the moment but they should persevere with it. Steve Ricketts, great Rugby League writer, now in retirement has a blog. I found this gem: [I]The Gold Coast Titans are to be applauded for sending their players to work, to get a taste of the real world. I remember at training in the bush seeing blokes turn up, blackened from cutting burnt sugar cane; covered in grease from mechanical repair work or covered in stains associated with working in banana plantations. In Brisbane, State forward, Des Morris (a product of Ipswich Rugby League), would work all day delivering beer kegs, before reporting for training at Easts. And Ipswich prop, Dud Beattie famously worked a morning shift down a coal mine, and then played a Test for Australia in the afternoon. Titans’ chairman, Dennis Watt has praised the Titans ‘community work’ (not to be confused with work experience) as the best in the NRL. That claim has been supported by several school principals, who have had dealings with the Titans and Broncos.[/I] Check it out here: [URL]https://stevericketts.com.au/2018/11/29/comment-give-ipswich-a-go/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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