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Yes I know few pub doorman would ring the police , when certain rugby players enter the pub , knowing where it will go and what came next .
Ask a few train divers or coppers how they view these events , look at A and E, Ambulance impacts ,and the blockage caused , for those needed real life saving treatments , for those in real need .
Never mind the impact to the public purse
Rugby players beat each other up on the pitch. No need for spectators to get involved.
Completely true. The hits these boys are taking in the pro game are phenomenal and its testament to how hard (mentally and physically) someone like AWJ is. Christ they hit hard enough when I watch Div 2 games.
Compared to footballers from juniors to the pro game who complain over the slightest touch is a joke.
If Paddy Power (St Iityds rugby teacher), or Mr Finn (St Albans rugby teacher), could come back from the grave and see the ball put in the scrum at 45 degrees, they would go absolutely mental.
What’s the point of scrums as there is now, NO SKILL INVOLVED, just pure brawn.
The game has become a cross between American football and Rugby League (with Sumo thrown in), no skill at all, just pure brawn.
The days of skilful players has gone, you just need to be a fat bastard to play now, 10 stone gingers not allowed
What makes me smile is in my secondary school days in the late sixties the reason given for a number of us not being allowed to play football was that rugger included everyone all shapes and sizes were football excluded the more let’s say larger lads,how times have changed.
I wonder what Barry John,Phil Bennett or Gerald Davies think of rugby today bet they don’t recognise it as the game they once graced
But even these guys are very muscular and completely different specimens to the likes of John,Bennett or Davies,mind you didn’t stop Shane Williams being owned by an old over weight but amazingly competitive Matthew le Tissier on a sporting challenge programme a while back
I've recently done some rugby coach training and it's still very much part of the game.
I suspect defence coaching is much more advanced than what it used to be and therefore the requirement to create overlaps and mismatches comes from quicker play and sucking in tacklers.
“Proofing”