WARM-UP? More like boil over.

The mercury reached levels of 39 degrees at Brookvale Oval on Sunday.

So the question needs to be asked, when it’s blistering hot, how long is too long to warm-up before a game?

Parramatta were on the field for a whopping 30 minutes in the stinking summer sun.

Was it overkill?

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The result certainly pointed at that conclusion.

The looked Eels baked before the game even kicked off.

The Eels copped a 54-0 hiding at the hands of Manly on Sunday.

Speaking on the Triple M Grill Team, Matt Johns couldn’t understand the theory behind spending so much time in the heat before running out for 80 minutes of intense physicality.

“I sometimes wonder whether these warm ups are follow the leader,” Johns said.

“My favourite warm ups were when it was hosing down and they just said ‘stay in the sheds, touch your toes a few times and get out there and go’.

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“I like to conserve energy. Even if it’s a night game and it’s July, I look at the length of the warm up and I just can’t explain, when you’re about to go out and play for 80 minutes, why a warm up needs to go for half an hour, particularly in that heat.

“I’m not saying that’s the reason (they lost). I’m just saying how I feel because you stand out in the bloody sun and you feel it.”

So why were Trent Barrett’s men so fresh?

Kane Evans of the Eels warms up prior to the game.

Perhaps it had something to do with the fact they scrapped the lengthy warm-up in favour of five minutes of ball work on the field before calling his troops in doors to complete their stretching inside the sheds.

With the weight of possession heavily in Manly’s favour to start the game, the Eels were ‘blown off the park’ according to Brad Arthur.

But Arthur insists he didn’t see any sign of that performance coming judging by the team’s performance during the week.

“Sometimes you might get a sense (you’re) a bit dusty in the warm-up,” Arthur said.

“Or a training session wasn’t great but it doesn’t entitle you to play the way we did. We just didn’t play. We just did not have a go.”