Rugby in schools - Children are delicate flowers?!?!

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[DrSnoosnoo]

So our next generation of rugby players won't have done full contact tackling until they were 16.

Put them against a 12 year old Aussie kid and we'll lose ...
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[Polarbear]

Jesus wept, no rugby tackling, no heading a football.

Better not snatch a kiss behind the bike sheds in case you get a slap.
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I wish they'd had that rule when I was at school. I used to hate playing rugby with a passion. I was really good at football but apparently we were a rugby school so we never played football in PE.

I swear I sometimes used to go a whole game without touching the rugby ball. Never call for a pass, never run towards a loose ball. There were some massive lads in my year whose sole aim, I swear, was to hospitalise as many people as possible on the rugby field.

Stupid game.
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[Lord Percy]

Instead of banning anything they should just make it optional.

Give kids a list of PE activities they can sign up to each term. Much more chance of satisfying everyone that way, surely.

[Im-a-Ridah]

Not quite sure how you do Rugby without tackling. That is pretty much the sport isn't it? My personal favourite was piggy in the middle, 100% tackling. Being the last man standing is a pretty interesting experience, you've basically got to run into everyone...

[Irn-Bru]

Football was a lot more brutal than rugby when I was at school. We very, very, very rarely played rubgy and I'm sure the times we did it was a gay non-contact version. All we ever seemed to do was rounders (with a baseball bat and a massive ball) and football. Quite enjoyed rounders, the teacher always bowled and I managed to get him in the balls once
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[Ste]

If you don't like rugby then you're meant to make use of your education to figure a way to get out of it and do something else.

[dydey90]

At my school rugby always seemed to be played only in the middle of winter. Used to come away battered and bloody due to being tackled into the the frozen up wheel ruts left by the lawnmower. I swear you could shave with the edges of those ruts.

Showering was not optional, strip off, get in, no underwear or detention.

This is ten years ago.
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[Polarbear]

When I was at Grammar school the sports were Rugby or Hockey. Us boys played Rugby because the Girls hockey teams were lethal. They were taught how to do damage with a stick!
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[stinkwheel]

Although the risks of longer term brain injuries are very real.

I think schoolboy rugby should be full contact BUT there should be much better training on how to go into a tackle properly and how to land properly before they actually play.

There should also be a requirement to use a qualified referee during competative matches with a real emphasis on good tacking technique. So both arms, below the waist. None of this smother or bodyblock tackling the pros use. A good referee will stop all this, will penalise players who are deliberately setting out to cause injury and will take players off who are either far above or far below the ability of their opponants.

My Mrs played in a freshers team at an inter college ladies rugby match. An annual "friendly " with both teams green as grass and very amateurish (think schoolboy under 13s). The other team were losing so they put on two ringers at half time, both playing at international level. My Mrs was a quick runner up on the wing and had been making ground all the match. She got tackled from both sides at once breaking her femur in two places. That's a potentially fatal injury.

They started using proper referees after that year. A proper ref would have kept them under control, he may even have stopped them coming on in the first place.

In schools, much MUCH more emphasis needs to be put on the severity of head-knocks in all aspects of PE. Head knock and you stop and sit the session out. End of.

I remember one PE class cocking up a neck-vault and headbutting the box off a springboard. Sore neck, seeing stars, the full works. Chipped a tooth too. Next news I had the PE teacher bawling at me to get back up and try again. I told him no, I've banged my head and I'm not doing it a second time. Cue more bawling and me telling him to fuck off (literally) because I'm not doing it. I landed up in the rectors office and on detention. Looking back. I was both concussed and suffering from whiplash, he should have been sending me to the doctors to get checked out, not bawling himself hoarse at me to repeat the exercise.

The problem is a lot of PE teachers are retired athletes with a teaching diploma and a chip on their shoulder. Or educationally sub-normal, borderline sex cases with anger management issues. Rather than experts in teaching physical disciplines.
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[Joncrete Cungle]

Rugby at school was brilliant, a legitimate way to hammer the cocky gobshites who came to training to try and show how big and tough they are.

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[andyscooter]

I had to play rugby for the school team as I got kicked off the football team


manned me up as the other lads all seemed to also play for the local town rugby club as well

I was smaller then most but I was quick
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[Lord Percy]

Heh, The Daily Mash - Rugby 'can turn you into a bellend'.

[Kidjal]

I'd love to see what these people thought of our kickboxing club entering 5-10 year olds in continuous kickboxing fights.

"Faint possibility of harm - eliminate entire activity" Stupid approach to take
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[Polarbear]

We used to finish our PE with a session British Bulldog. Other then you wouldn't be allowed to play it now because BRITISH it was an evil game. Mumsnet would be hysterical at what was happening to their little chaps.
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We used to play Bulldog in the Army cadets. That shit could get brutal.
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