Quote ="Mugwump"It's hard to compare the two. It wouldn't take too many increments of 1lb loads added consecutively to Roby's back before he drops from sixty tackles down to fifty and then forty.'"
Whilst I agree with your point that extra load would equate to decreased performance, Roby is so far ahead it likely wouldn't matter. The bloke is a machine whether it comes to RL related match fitness or general aerobic/anaerobic fitness.