Campbell's fitness focus under new rules

The ACT Brumbies will need to step up their fitness in the lead-up to next season if they are going to last the distance under rule changes to the Super 14, according to lock Al Campbell.
Already much of the pre-season focus was on strength and conditioning for the players, but Campbell said they would need to address the increase in running and ball-in-play time that the Experimental Law Variations generated.
SANZAR announced earlier this week the laws would be included in the Super 14 and the Tri Nations with a view for the IRB to introduce the changes globally by 2009.Campbell was one of the Brumbies players who had a taste of the new rules in the Sydney rugby competition and the Australian Rugby Championships.
He admitted he was surprised the laws had been introduced for next season and said the main difference was the demand on players' fitness.
"We're going to have to address the amount of running we do because the Super 14 ball-in-play compared to the ARC stats, it's quite a big jump," Campbell said.
"So we've got to look at that and treat training accordingly to make sure guys are up to the running ability. There's going to be a lot more distance for us to cover.
"Now that they've been confirmed, it's now about preparation and learning from a coaching perspective and playing perspective how we can work them to our advantage ... there's six weeks until we start playing so it's going to be a big challenge but we're a little bit fortunate that we had a core group who have experienced it."

Brumbies assistant coach and Canberra Vikings coach Nick Scrivener said the changes to pre-season training would be minor but among the differences would be an adjustment in the fitness requirements of the players.
He said the new rules were integral in taking the game forward but was pleased the controversial laws allowing hands in the ruck and unlimited numbers in lineouts were among the trialled rules scrapped for Super 14.
"Based on the statistics on the ARC and other competitions where it's been trialled, there will be a lot more ball in play time, there'll be a lot more free kicks and I guess the transition between attack and defence will be occurring a lot more and a lot quicker," he said. "Potentially a lot more unstructured play will be occurring, I think what we've got is the best of the ARC without the lineout law and the ruck law, which I don't think were all that positive."

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