New Zealand Warriors head of performance Craig Twentyman says they have been spoilt by the facilities at the Scully Park precinct that has been transformed into their training headquarters.
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The NRL side, who as revealed on Friday are set to call Tamworth home for a little longer, is nearing the end of the first week of their mandatory quarantine as the competition prepares for a May 28 restart.
"The facility is outstanding," Twentyman said.
"It's not often you get a hotel to yourself so we've been able to have the run of the place and the field is obviously NRL quality so we've been really spoilt from a facility point of view."
Twentyman admitted his team had been "surprised and relieved" by the condition the players have on the whole come back in.
"They came out of lockdown in surprisingly good shape," he said.
"A lot of the boys put a lot of effort in in their training during that time."
There have even been a few pb's around the traditional testing that they do.
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On the flip side about a handful weren't probably where they would have liked them to be.
"[But] The beauty of the facility we're in at the moment is we've got them in a camp environment so we can get that group up to speed," he said.
Formerly the head of performance with the Australian rugby sevens program, Twentyman said there had been "a lot of adapting on the run" as far as planning goes.
Even now things are changing day to day.
"We were apparently allowed to train as a group and start contact tomorrow (Saturday) but those goalposts changed over the last couple of days as well," he said.
"So as you can imagine there's been a few drafts and a plans put in place during the last couple of months."
From what he understands they will be able to resume contact training on Monday.
Only able to train in groups of no more than 10 and with "strictly no contact", they have this week been playing a lot of conditioning games using socks as tags like in oztag. In readiness for the anticipated return to contact next week they have also been doing a lot of preparation around that.
"We've been doing a lot of running as you can imagine and a lot of off the ground stuff to prep the guys for that," Twentyman said.
"And the coaches have been putting the guys in positional groups so they're starting to run through their combos again and just getting the feel for each other and the communication levels and all that sort of thing."
Friday was a 'recovery day'.
"We did some video analysis, some yoga, some pool recovery and some individual prep stuff around the shoulder, neck, hip flexor, abductor, those sort of key areas," he said.
They will hit the training paddock again on Saturday before another 'recovery rotation' on Sunday.
