Not comparing nrl and ru,just a comment on core fitness basically

It was interesting watching last weeks Rugby AM yesterday and listening to Sam Burgess saying George looks in the best physical shape he’s been in for a couple of years. That was obviously before Thursdays game but it give me hope that it was purely down to the hip complaint. I suppose the most worrying part was him mentioning his hip has been a problem for two years now. That sounds like it’ll be an ongoing problem, which isn’t ideal when you’ve tied marquee money up in somebody for 3 years.

The fitness required for each competiton/sport being totally different

As Itchy says upthread, nobody (or virtually nobody) is'writing him off', but there's surely no dispute that he looked miles away from match fitness against Wire, and doesn't look like he should be anywhere near a first team starting 13 for a while yet.

Apples and oranges bananas and pears.Basic core fitness is the same for any athlete,my point being if his fitness is in doubt hopefully that can be sorted if it's injury related we should be worried .

Doing the same sport or discipline. I bet a shot putter can't complete too many cardio workouts compared to a sprinter for example.

With what Ive just listened to from mend a hose we might agree Geoff Capes may be an option at prop.

From what I saw of Burgess against Warrington from the South Stand, it’ll be May before he’s fit to play rugby, seriously, that’s just cardiovascular fitness. He needs an intense fitness programme to get him up to speed and get him fit.

Nah his brother said he hadn’t seen him as fit for years and Lam was pondering playing him last night.
Just the usual bs spouted recently

They’ll probably bring him back against Saints and he’ll get decked in the first 5 minutes.

At face value I’d agree with yourself

Should we not be asking why Burgess is so unfit after training for a full pre season? What sort of training has he been doing?

Sam Burgess said he hadn’t seen him (George) as fit for years. If that was true, he’s Seemingly carrying an injury and why, therefore, didn’t the coaching team spot this?

If Sam Burgess’ comments were a load of rubbish, George could well be injury free but as he was floundering like a beached whale against Wire, he’s therefore light years away from being match fit. Why, therefore, didn’t the coaching team spot this?

Could he be both injured (hip) and unfit? Who knows. We could possibly get Vera in to try and solve it. Something rather strange going on here and the paying punters are being taken as idiots.

this is the question...

The problem with Burgess is that the hip problem is a degenerative problem that he will have to deal with for the rest of his life,or until he gets a hip replacement

If this is the case, we shouldn’t have touched him with a barge pole.

He had the problem when he was at souths so that argument doesn't stand up,what they should have done is given him game time in the reserves to build his fitness up

Is GB the 2nd marquee?

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Haha

Brilliant!

Why

Click the link

cheers, didn't realise it was a link

All that came up on the results was how he got mullered by BMM. Nothing about marquee

He'll probably be playing again before Mark Percival after his attempted tackle on BMM.

and still got the win