Nudie runs, no sleep and chilli eating: What really happens at NRL training sessions

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It’s long been accepted that players are pushed to breaking point to separate the mentally fragile players from the game’s most resilient athletes - but it’s a fine line.

Some clubs roll a dice, some spin a wheel, but it all adds up to the same thing – how to instil discipline among the players.

A number of current and former players – all talking anonymously in order to speak freely – said punishments were commonplace across the league but could vary from club to club. One player said he would often see players forced to wrestle their whole team, as Topine had been made to do at the Bulldogs last year.

Shark bait is when players circle a player and the individual in the middle will have to continue wrestling his peers until he defeats one of them. Another player at another club told how he had to walk along a cliffside while wearing blacked-out goggles. Others told of how they were kept on constant edge by knowing they could be woken up at any time of the night and asked to carry two 25-kilogram jerry cans for up to five kilometres, often causing their hands to bleed.

 

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