Reply to: 'elf and safety innit

[lightng]

Surely the Daily Mail line would be:
Rugby causes cancer

No, that's football.

[Spacecadet]

Anyway, that's the end of my Daily Mail rant. I feel better now.

Surely the Daily Mail line would be:
Rugby causes cancer

[lightng]

Arghh!

This really gets my goat. Why not ban all sports and let kids die of obesity instead. Tiddlywinks - bits of plastic flying round, could take someone's eye out. Why not ban that too? At university, the student union managed to ban amateur boxing - cos it was dangerous - sod everyone who actually wanted to do it.

This cotton wool mentality doesn't just stop at sport. We don't want children to fail so we make exams easier. Now everyone can go to succeed but no-one ever does because there is no risk of failure.

Competing in whatever field, taking risks, winning some, losing some, finding out what your good at, finding out what your bad at, its all part of growing up and finding out who you are. It is sad that we are becoming a nation of unhealthy, less disciplined, less educated, less confident people who can't compete with the rest of the world.

On the subject of school rugby, a few months ago I attended a rugby match with my mate to watch his son who was playing in the under 12s. His son got caught and a small gash appeared above his eye. From the side he shouted "Don't worry son, it'll heal and chicks dig scars!". Cool fatherly advice, I thought.

Anyway, that's the end of my Daily Mail rant. I feel better now.

[MarillionFan]

I bet you don't go into the showers when the Sisters are around anymore.

Oh! I bet he does!

[minestrone]

7 stitches in a gaping wound!! Bloody dangerous it is!!!!

I bet you don't go into the showers when the Sisters are around anymore.

[Drewster]

When I went to school we probably did twice as much rugby as football.
Only time anyone ended up getting injured enough to warrant calling an ambulance was when playing football.

I played Rugby for many years.... Few black eyes, bruises, nose bleeds and twisted/sprained ankles etc...

I play Badminton now.... Various twisted/sprained ankles, Broken ankle, broken finger and one incident involving 7 stitches in a gaping wound!! Bloody dangerous it is!!!!

[Troll]

Your paranoia has reached epidemic proportions now.

Nope - I've re-checked the article and it deffo says scots

HTH

[Spacecadet]

Rugby my ass SC.

I'd heard a rumour that you got injured during Chess Club when you got carried away with a castling move on the Queens side.

Put my back out innit

[MarillionFan]

When I went to school we probably did twice as much rugby as football.
Only time anyone ended up getting injured enough to warrant calling an ambulance was when playing football.

Rugby my ass SC.

I'd heard a rumour that you got injured during Chess Club when you got carried away with a castling move on the Queens side.

[Mich the Tester]

I can see this actually. Ban rugby, increase the number of football academies. After all, footy is called "the beautiful game". Rugby is just dull.

I can't see anyone biting.

Must do better.

[suityou01]

BBC News - Call to ban rugby scrums in schools

Bloody bedwetters.

I can see this actually. Ban rugby, increase the number of football academies. After all, footy is called "the beautiful game". Rugby is just dull.

[shaunbhoy]

It was the bed wetting, namby pamby soft-as-tulipe Scots what said this

Your paranoia has reached epidemic proportions now. Which is good. For it injects a humour into your posts that is otherwise distinctly lacking.

FYI, the only "solid oak" thing about you is your head.

[Troll]

Oh please, what a pile of tulipe... English rugby is in a bad enough state as it is

It was the bed wetting, namby pamby soft-as-tulipe Scots what said this, not the stout hearted, solid oak English types

A mixed bag of results recently but not as bad as it could have been - England may be on the way up but we'll have to wait for the autumn to see if the trend has been set

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New Zealand Maori 35 - 28 ENGLAND
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Australian Barbarians 9 - 15 ENGLAND
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AUSTRALIA 27 - 17 ENGLAND
Tuesday, 08 June 2010
Australian Barbarians 28 - 28 ENGLAND

FYI we had one serious injury during my time at school - a broken neck from a collapsed scrum that left the 15 year old in a wheelchair - he eventually topped himself aged 20 by pushing his wheelchair into a garden pond and drowning... heartbreaking but an isolated incident

While they are at it, they should ban hockey sticks from hockey - how much damage can a hockey stick cause? .

Fom personal experience 4 stitches to a open wound around the eyebrow - but no reason to ban hockey either


HTH

[Mich the Tester]

Can't see Cameron and his chums agreeing to that - It would mean also banning the Eton wall game

Good game, good game, didn't he do well?

[moorfield]

Eton wall game

Hilarious - that reads like something out of Private Eye.