How Come We Don’t See Rugby Players Writhing Around On The Deck

[Bobbisox1]

It’s much more physical sport than football !!!

[Old_Geezer]

The pain pathway gets severed in an initiation ceremony during their time learning the game at secondary school.

[piggynose]

OG at secondary school! Only posh ones, we only had football, basketball briefly and cricket.

[andy-hughes]

Rugby is full contact, and everyone is constantly braced for impact.

Football contact is almost all around the feet and ankles, dozens of delicate bones and tissue not braced for impact, because impact is usually avoided.

That's why rugby players accept a degree of pain in well-defended areas of the body, and footballers are not ready for pain that is virtually always inversely proportional to the force of contact that caused it.

[DTCwordfan]

Men are men, women ar women and wussies are wussies.

[jourdain2]

piggynose - I taught in Sec. Mod. schools and inner-city Comps in Bradford - they all played rugby as well as other sports.

[piggynose]

20.16 rugby league or union?

[jourdain2]

Sadly, they all taught R.U., probably specified on the curriculum. RL clubs abounded though and those interested very often joined them.
Space & playing fields were often not large enough in inner-city schools to teach proper cricket, but i remember at one, very cramped Sec-mod in Halifax, the games staff somehow managed to coach the basics.

[piggynose]

I think you'll find rugby union is only played in grammar schools. Well that was the case, ee when i was a lad!
Of course i could be wrong!
I remember having mates who went to a grammar school in 70s having to play rugger, we didn't at our sec modern.

[Old_Geezer]

You mean I've accidentally exposed some of my past ?!

[Hymie]

Rugby players are made of sturdier stuff; I remember Eddie Waring commentating on a rugby league game in which a player lay unconscious after a tackle – Eddie said, he’ll be OK, I saw his eyelid move.