Doctors urge schools to ban tackling in rugby

Avenged7Fold · 2 Mar 2016 at 14:13

Just ban thugs. Have a 0 tolerance policy on malicious misconduct and have appropriate introduction to contact to avoid injury through negligence

Minstadave · 2 Mar 2016 at 14:13

The Running Man said:
I agree its stupid to force kids to play rugby an intentionally contact sport. I never enjoyed it and most of the other kids didn't either. In canada at university i played flag football, ie you wear a flag and the tackler had to catch you and pull it off you, rather than crunching you. Much more fun tbh.

Was that an all girls school?

Minstadave · 2 Mar 2016 at 14:15

FoxEye said:
Just ban rugby, tbh. It's a game for thugs

It's a gentlemans sport. You fight for 80 minutes shake hands and are mates again. You also need half a brain to understand the rules.

Compare that to football, you roll around crying if someone looks at you wrong or messes up your hair, trash one another on Twitter, everyone's out for their head and shoulders contract or abusing teenage girls. It's a game for morons.

mid_gen · 2 Mar 2016 at 14:16

The UK needs to adopt a weight classification system for junior rugby instead of age grade.

Might end with some players than pass a bloody ball that way.

Mynight · 2 Mar 2016 at 14:17

Minstadave said:
Was that an all girls school?

It's a shame if it goes this way. I played rugby throughout secondary school and loved it iirc we only ever had one serious injury in 5 years.

Haggisman · 2 Mar 2016 at 14:22

MikeTheNative said:
Ok so we get rid of compulsory rugby, may as well get rid of cricket and football as you can get injuries in them too. Also track and field as well, gymnastics, swimming(you might drown) What's left? Netball?

Don't forget to get rid of stairs! Hundreds of people die from falling down stairs every year, BAN THIS SICK FILTH!

Mynight · 2 Mar 2016 at 14:28

Haggisman said:
Don't forget to get rid of stairs! Hundreds of people die from falling down stairs every year, BAN THIS SICK FILTH!

No need to ban stairs just make them up only. That way people can't fall down them.

krooton · 2 Mar 2016 at 14:44

Being a weedy, glasses-wearing kid, I shunned all contact sports where possible, so did athletics in the winter and tennis in the summer.

I know of at least 2 fractured shins, 3 wrists, and 1 collarbone from various friends growing up sustained playing rugby. Thanks, but no thanks

linktoinsanity · 2 Mar 2016 at 14:53

Haggisman said:
Don't forget to get rid of stairs! Hundreds of people die from falling down stairs every year, BAN THIS SICK FILTH!

Dalek in disguise. Get your pepperpotness away from this thread.

Take away stairs = easy invasion. :cool:

Cosimo · 2 Mar 2016 at 14:54

Minstadave said:
It's a gentlemans sport. You fight for 80 minutes shake hands and are mates again. You also need half a brain to understand the rules.

You only need a half a brain as you've lost the other half playing. It's a genitalman's sport...

Zatoichi.uK · 2 Mar 2016 at 15:02

I've only ever broken/fractured a bone once and it was playing rugby when I was 13.

Haggisman · 2 Mar 2016 at 15:46

Running = bad for your knees
Football = hacked shins (and makes you into a big girl's blouse who cries when he trips over a blade of grass)
Hockey = smashed shins and smacked in the face with a stick
Rugby = concussions and dislocated limbs
Croquet = might trip over one of the hoops and snap your spine like a twig.
Sitting on the sofa all day playing video games = heart disease.

Bit of a no-win scenario there really!

There's risk inherent in everything...

cheesyboy · 2 Mar 2016 at 15:49

Haggisman said:
Running = bad for your knees
Football = hacked shins (and makes you into a big girl's blouse who cries when he trips over a blade of grass)
Hockey = smashed shins and smacked in the face with a stick
Rugby = concussions and dislocated limbs
Croquet = might trip over one of the hoops and snap your spine like a twig.
Sitting on the sofa all day playing video games = heart disease.

Bit of a no-win scenario there really!

There's risk inherent in everything...

My wife recently had a chap come into her hospital who had a serious croquet injury. Someone (presumably upon sealing a victory) had flung a croquet hoop into the air, and it had landed with the spike through this guy's skull. He died.

So, y'know, danger all around.

krooton · 2 Mar 2016 at 15:52

Haggisman said:
Running = bad for your knees
Football = hacked shins (and makes you into a big girl's blouse who cries when he trips over a blade of grass)
Hockey = smashed shins and smacked in the face with a stick
Rugby = concussions and dislocated limbs
Croquet = might trip over one of the hoops and snap your spine like a twig.
Sitting on the sofa all day playing video games = heart disease.

Bit of a no-win scenario there really!

There's risk inherent in everything...

Yes, which can be measured, most contact sports pose a higher risk of injury than non-contact sports, or indeed most non-sport forms of exercise.

Yes, you could sprain you ankle whilst jogging, or trip and injure yourself playing golf, but these are not expected incidents in said activities. Play rugby, you gonna get tackled.

linktoinsanity · 2 Mar 2016 at 15:54

cheesyboy said:
My wife recently had a chap come into her hospital who had a serious croquet injury. Someone (presumably upon sealing a victory) had flung a croquet hoop into the air, and it had landed with the spike through this guy's skull. He died.

So, y'know, danger all around.

But throwing the Croquet hoop into the air is not part of the game. The comparison is like pulling a goal post out and dropping it on someone's head so how does it compare?

cheesyboy · 2 Mar 2016 at 15:58

linktoinsanity said:
But throwing the Croquet hoop into the air is not part of the game. The comparison is like pulling a goal post out and dropping it on someone's head so how does it compare?

I was putting the story out there, rather than contributing directly to the discourse.

That said, for all I know, chucking the hoops about might be commonplace.

Quartz · 2 Mar 2016 at 17:31

There are always a minority of children who are entirely unsuited to physical games like rugby - I was one of them - but I always wondered why they didn't take the opportunity to teach them to be referees / umpires or linesmen. Then the children still get the exercise, and still participate in the team games.

Avenged7Fold · 2 Mar 2016 at 17:34

Children can be petty, malicious and immature. Singling out the kids who are less physically suited than others and then making them judge the games of the other kids is a terrible idea. Lol not only do you single them out but put them in a scenario where they are likely to **** off at least half of the PE class.

Mason- · 2 Mar 2016 at 17:42

Yeah I played Rugby from 13-18 for my local team and school and I'd be really sad if this happened.

Perhaps they should ensure that the PE Teachers know how to teach people to tackle properly, binding, head position, no spear tackles etc.

And as for scrummaging, it's fine. Especially with the new rules which mean there isn't really a 'hit' anymore. I remember every Monday morning after playing rugby on the Sunday I would have a stiff neck purely because when I played it was crouch touch pause engage which was a big hit, I played flanker then played prop in my last year.
So yeah I got a stiff neck but I never got a permanent long term injury. It was stiff for a day and then fine by Tuesday.

Rroff · 2 Mar 2016 at 17:45

Couple of people ended up with concussions from playing Rugby when I was at school - I seem to remember we were thrown straight into the deep end tackles and scrums and everything from the word go - quite often it would be used to pick on people as well one poor guy would always get intentionally tackled into puddles whenever possible.

Only minor injuries myself - mostly slightly pulling something in my elbow when a scrum collapsed.