From The Mole (so take it for what it is):
COVID DECIMATES EELS
Parramatta has been hit harder than most clubs by the COVID epidemic.
In just the last week, the bug has hit coach Brad Arthur, many of his staff and star players Mitchell Moses and Reagan Campbell-Gillard.
"About two-thirds of the squad and training staff have had it by now," an Eels insider told Wide World of Sports yesterday.
"It's made things tough but better to get it now than during the season and the rest of the boys have soldiered on."
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I can't remember the last time I lasted 80 minutes.
Last time the Eels lasted 80 minutes?
These are incrdibly fit and young athletes. They'll be alright. COVID won't affect them like everybody else.
Look at Nick Kyrgios for example. Had COVID and in the same week, he breezed through a 3 set game and won the first round of the Aus Open.
That's a very broad and sweeping statement. There are no doubt players with asthma, players with issues such as rheumatoid arthritis and other chronic conditions. There is also research coming out of Europe and the US revealing that there are drops in performance after players return from COVID. This is elite level, contact sport where even being off by a few per cent can be a massive detriment.
Players returning from COVID in the NBA had significantly reduced minutes, even if their other stats were about normal for them. You put that into an NRL side and you have issues regarding interchanges if players can't punch out their usual minutes.
Players in European football leagues are playing fewer minutes and making fewer passes even months after infection.
We can't just assume every player will be right to return immediately and at the same level they were before infection.
apparently they are able to regain 95% of their pre-covid fitness/endurance back but its the remaining 5% that is proving difficult for many of them
Yeh and at the elite level, that 5% can be telling. I wonder if the NRL will look at larger match day squads to provide more flexibility to teams, or possibly even increasing the interchange restriction temporarily.
Nailed it Super
Hit harder than most??? Even in a global pandemic Parra is still the worst club apparently.
Lol the stupid so called journalism never stops..shit look for the game
Well, we have been. Most clubs have copped half their squad or less contracting COVID. We're well over that. Although we do have 100% vaccine coverage in the squad.
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