Re: Schools Cup 2009
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:30 pm
I'm not naive or over-protective, and I know what used to go on in my day and what goes on now as I've been watching him and his friends develop as players through around 8 years of rugby. Just because fights break out in games doesn't mean that fighting is a necessary or welcome part of the game. I don't go to rugby to watch fights and most people I know are incensed when one of the opposition starts throwing punches, and annoyed when one of our own does as it risks giving away penalties or being binned thus disadvantaging your own team.fuzzylogic wrote: No offence at all meant here paul but if thats your attitude you would be better taking your kid out of rugby for a few years. There is quite a lot of fighting goes on in schools and youth rugby. Matches erupt into fights all the time at age grade level. Its all to do with immature kids pumping their way through puberty and rammed full of excess testosterone. Almost everyone is going to get a slap at one stage or another and most schools I know at my old school and through friends at a couple of others that when kids are fighting on the rugby pitch, while normally not sent off they are banned by their school for a couple of matches at least.
There will always be the odd incident at every level but it should be discouraged by appropriate sanctions from the referees not encouraged or approved either actively or by referee inaction.