Cruncher wrote:
No way was that a deliberate head shot. He wrapped his arms round the guy's body. The fact his feet left the ground is laughably irrelevant. How many tacklers leave the ground when they're trying to bring down an opponent? Probably fifty per cent of them. It signifies nothing other than determined effort.
We have to ask ourselves where all this is going to end. They've pulled back on next year's extra level of 'player protection' because they've realised it would make the game unplayable. But for how long?
Many, many years ago, before all this was a conversation piece, I took my son to hospital after a Saturday afternoon match, because he'd sustained a nasty ankle injury. The Casualty doctor was quite sniffy with us, as if we'd got what we deserved, and in the end, couldn't resist saying: 'If I had my way, rugby would be abolished tomorrow.'
That's the mentality behind all this. We shouldn't just be okay with it.
Just to add to this,my daughter dislocated her elbow and had to go to hospital to have it put back,this happened when she was training on the trampoline,the surgeon said that trampolining cause more injuries to kids than any most other sports and he would ban that.The point is that doctors/surgeons etc would ban any sport they deem unsafe.There is only so far you can make a sport safer after that th sport becomes unrecognisable to what it started out as.
Statistics: Posted by Jason65 — Sun Aug 25, 2024 9:45 am — Replies 2697 — Views 396299
