while seven players were charged following the fierce Magic Weekend derby between Wigan and St Helens<\/a> at the Hill Dickinson Stadium.<\/p>\n\u201cWe promote gladiatorial contests, we encourage physicality with the way we promote the game, and then we fine lads on Monday morning for being a split second out [with tackles],\u201d Peet added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m not even complaining about disciplinary points or suspensions. To fine these players when we’re selling the game off the back of high collision, high speed, repeat efforts… and we’re fining them for upwards of \u00a3200, it’s a tough one for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warrington counterpart Burgess also expressed his concerns – hinting that Super League could follow the NRL in terms of including bye rounds in order to keep players fit and healthy.<\/p>\n
He insisted Friday\u2019s game at the Brick Community Stadium is not a missed opportunity for the competition despite the lengthy injury list, but the England legend believes changes are needed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great question to maybe ask the RFL – maybe don\u2019t play as many games, and maybe an ability to have a couple of byes in the season, and then you\u2019d probably keep more players on the field,\u201d the 2014 NRL Grand Final winner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a fair question. I don\u2019t feel like it\u2019s a shame [for Friday], because it\u2019s a great opportunity for our squad and our club, but I think on a wider discussion, something needs to be done.<\/p>\n
“Looking ahead, we\u2019ve got six games in 29 days. I dread to think what effect that\u2019s going to have on the players, but we have no input, no ability to influence. We just get told what to do, and anytime you sort of challenge things or ask if there\u2019s a better solution, the answer is simply no.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel for the players, because they\u2019re the ones out there. They need to get together and come up with an association and have a bit of a say in the game, otherwise they\u2019ll continue to be used like this.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe play too many games, there’s no doubt about that. There\u2019s not long enough off, shorter pre-seasons, too many games, too many friendlies. You can say other clubs manage to do it, but over the course of a long period of time, everyone will go through it. It\u2019s the nature of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need some careful consideration. Look at the NRL – play 24 games, there\u2019s three byes each in that, and obviously they play the State of Origin. You might play eight games, week off, six games, week off, 10 more games and into finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou play two maximum trial games, and your pre-season starts in the middle of November. You have to get a minimum of eight weeks off. Then the trials mid-February, season starts in the middle of March.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there needs to be a fair discussion, and actually to listen to the players, to the coaches and performance staff. That\u2019s the first thing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both Matt Peet and Sam Burgess have sounded the alarm over Super League’s brutal schedule as the competition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20805,20372,5903,20370,101,20373,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-680426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-hull-fc","tag-hull-kr","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-super-league","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}