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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3637106, member: 9052"] I think we were a very physical team last year and we were also the team running over the top of the opposition in the final 20mins of games. Our fitness won us a lot of games. I just think the GF into internationals, into a disrupted preseason and trip to US means we probably had to rely on the fitness from last year / players maintaining their fitness levels in the offseason, rather than being able to rest after the season and rebuild the base. I dont think Patty got back to training until mid-late January and then we were off to the states in Feb... that's probably similar to Haas and those guys that played internationals... and that's not taking into account when the trials started. In a normal offseason I think the fringe first graders are there back end of November / start of December and then the top 30 filter in from start of December with everyone back before Xmas and then a break until January. Usually Broncos marketting team are posting training videos over those periods, but that seemed pretty quiet last year... I dont recall seeing stuff about them doing "The Gap" run and things like that... So I feel like they might've come into the preseason just beaten up from the year that was and didnt get an opportunity to really rest out niggles and things before having to then come back and really hammer in and build that fitness back up. We've looked pretty beaten up all year and it hasn't helped that we dont have a lot of quality depth to fall back on this year. Last year Arthars and Mariner were our depth outside backs at the start of the year... Kobe, Jensen and Palasia spent time in reserve grade... Piakura was depth last year.... so if we needed to rest a starter due to a niggle we could give them a week off here and there.... we dont have that luxury this year and guys are having to play through the injuries because there is too much of a drop off to the next guy up. Kevvie being able to rotate his forwards was a big thing last year and we havent really been able to do that at all this year.... it's just all hands on deck [/QUOTE]

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