They are athletes, agreed.
Rotation can be done right or wrong regardless of that.
It is very difficult, probably impossible, to keep players at their peak every single week for an entire season, compromises have to be made.
That's why most squads try to come into the season underdone and use the season to peak at the latter end.


I seem to recall that Senor Diablo does have experience of training for running in long events (as do I, for many years, for anything from 5K up to marathon, although I am now in retirement, much to Mo Farah's relief

).
The scenario is sufficiently similar to understand the effects of the balance between rest and exercise.

I've spent 42 years perfecting my knowledge of half of that.

I look into exercise in the next few years.

Im tired just reading that.

Tell me about it. I can beat her over 5k though. Takes her that long to warm up.

My wife was singing "Holding out for a Hero at the end of the night" whilst tiling our bathroom so does that make her Bonnie Tyler?

It might. Have you ever seen them in the same room?

Only if she's a bonny tiler.

She could be a hard-working Aussie.
In which case she might be a dunny toiler.

Some of the players are tweeting that the squad are all growing beards till their season ends.Reminds me of the dyed hair one game thing or the poor Wigan team growing tache's not keen.They get plenty of stick if they go out early

We in the Beard Liberation Front are obviously in favour of facial topiary in general but, whilst obvious exceptions for charitable purposes can be made, as in the case of Mr Sammut at Bradford, we do strongly advise that a beard is to be considered as a long term companion and it is not a relationship to be entered into lightly. Therefore, the growing of a beard with the full intention of shaving it off again is not something we feel we can endorse and our aspiration is that Mr Jones-Buchanan will counsel and mentor those around him accordingly.