No arguments from me on that one.backawaygoonahead wrote:Amusingly it appears we were all crap
Only ever had one "proper" injury at rugby (you ignore all the cuts, bumps, scrapes & bruises - they're taken as read), and that was the only time I ever played front row. Turned up for a match and our hooker didn't show. The question was asked "who can play hooker?" (Before the days of supposed specialised training for front rowers). No one answered, but then someone pointed out that my brother used to play hooker (badly), so it was obvious that I would "know" how to play. I played about 50 minutes (I think) without once striking for the ball - I didn't know I had to, as our pack just pushed over the opposition - before a bad collapse had me screaming in agony and I was carried off with a nasty neck injury. Thankfully not as nasty as it might have been, but I still attribute some of the neck problems I have decades later to that moment. I came back a couple of months later and played for a couple more years, but never went near the front row again.HwoodMike2umate wrote:It was horrible but i did somehow escape any long term serious injuries - usually by slipping well short of any actual action.
At the football, however, I broke several bones (my own), had more than enough stitches and tore plenty of muscles, cartilages, ligaments that I had a regular booking for a cubicle on saturday afternoons at RVH casualty. Still loved it though.