Truly shocked

[OzyOly]

Most sports can be dangerous. do you want to make football, hockey, field sports and everything else optional as well?

It was a school rugby match, so it was totally optional anyway.

Yeah. I do actually.

I wasn't unfit at school. I don't know why I was forced to play sports for so long. I liked most sports, but I hated rugby and I couldn't be assed with cross-country or football during a rain storm because the showers were always cold and there was never enough room for everyone.

Force fat people to do sports. Otherwise it should be optional.

 

[Glaucus]

I don't think my friend was completely keen on playing... he was kind of keen, but not overly...

he must be keen to play outside of school time.

 

[TheCenturion]

he must be keen to play outside of school time.

Tis a boarding school! so right now, I'm at school! (I hope there aren't any paedophiles on this forum)

 

[Azagoth]

If the worse does happen, then at least he'll still be able to play wheelchair rugby!

 

[wannabedamned]

(I hope there aren't any paedophiles on this forum)

I'm sorry but winking counts as consent

 

[Parsley]

Force fat people to do sports. Otherwise it should be optional.

Plenty of unfit "pencil like" (for lack of a better description) people out there as well.

 

[OzyOly]

If the worse does happen, then at least he'll still be able to play wheelchair rugby!

How do they tackle? Out of curiosity?

 

[Glaucus]

Tis a boarding school! so right now, I'm at school! (I hope there aren't any paedophiles on this forum)

But surly rugby in a league on a Saturday is optional, regardless of it being a boarding school.

 

[OzyOly]

Plenty of unfit "pencil like" (for lack of a better description) people out there as well.

So why force them to do it? They don't need to loose weight and building up should be optional. Some people like to be thin.

 

[Azagoth]

How do they tackle? Out of curiosity?

Bloody violently is the polite answer. It used to be known as "Murderball"!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/3841161.stm

 

[OzyOly]

But surly rugby in a league on a Saturday is optional, regardless of it being a boarding school.

In a normal school it would be. But the school can make life hard for you if you don't play in a team at boarding/grammar schools.

 

[TheCenturion]

But surly rugby in a league on a Saturday is optional, regardless of it being a boarding school.

well if you're put into the team then you have to play, unless you make a huge fuss out of it, in which case you don't play but are looked at terribly by the staff, we even have lessons on saturday. it feels like the old soviet

 

[Glaucus]

So why force them to do it? They don't need to loose weight and building up should be optional. Some people like to be thin.

there not made to build up and league stuff is optional. Everyone has to play sport at school.

 

[Parsley]

So why force them to do it? They don't need to loose weight and building up should be optional. Some people like to be thin.

Thin but still unfit.

Some people like to be fat so why force them to do it? I do think that everyone should be doing the exercise to be honest I just don't see why you would specifically target overweight kids.

 

[OzyOly]

there not made to build up and league stuff is optional. Everyone has to play sport at school.

Well I only played upto the end of year 9. I hated it. If my children (if/when I have some) don't want to play it, I wont make them.

 

[georges]

Indeed it is. I mean...cotton walls...it's just not practical.

That got a snigger.


Yeah there are shocking injuries from playing rugby, but by playing it, you run the risk of it. Pretty rare though, and it's possible in many sports.

Hopefully he'll be ok - my friend broke his back recently (including a crushed vertebrae too iirc), and he's started swimming again, and can go to the gym for weights soon, so he might get better.

 

[OzyOly]

Thin but still unfit.

Some people like to be fat so why force them to do it? I do think that everyone should be doing the exercise to be honest I just don't see why you would specifically target overweight kids.

Because it's the government's young enemy.

 

[Heliospherez]

A friend of mine was sitting on a small family rented bouncy castle. It had been rented for a wedding the next day (he was the cousin of the bride), but everyone decided to use it the evening before the wedding.

As he was sitting on it, 2 or 3 guests jumped on it at the same time catapulting him into the air and he landed on his neck. He broke it in numerous places, was in traction / cage for six months in hospital - unable to sleep lying down for the duration, and still cannot move or feel anything 2 years later.

And being fat or thin will have no bearing on how easily your neck or back will break if a scrum falls on you.

These things are obviously rare, but they do happen.

 

[TheCenturion]

A friend of mine was sitting on a small family rented bouncy castle. It had been rented for a wedding the next day (he was the cousin of the bride), but everyone decided to use it the evening before the wedding.

As he was sitting on it, 2 or 3 guests jumped on it at the same time catapulting him into the air and he landed on his neck. He broke it in numerous places, was in traction / cage for six months in hospital - unable to sleep lying down for the duration, and still cannot move or feel anything 2 years later.

These things are obviously rare, but they do happen.

I'm really sorry to hear that.

 

[Parsley]

Because it's the government's young enemy.

And that's a reason to target them? Hmmmm.

Anyway I would imagine the guy who was hurt had more options than Rugby. I had the choice of Rugby, Hockey, Rowing, Badminton or Football when I was back in school anyway.

Usually whatever you decided to do during the Wednesday afternoon games would end up being the sport you played for your school (if you were good enough).