Rugby player and broken neck.

What a terrible injury to sustain in a foot ball match, does anyone else think that rugby is over the top with three or four players onto one, who has the ball, pick him up bodily, and then dump him on the ground, none of whom were deliberately out to punish or damage him, but the action could foretell the result, Hope the damage is not as bad as they think and he recovers.

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It is a horribly rough game broken necks must be more common in Rugby than any other game? 

A young lad at my children's school had exactly that injury but severed the cord, a whole life totally damaged amazingly confined to a wheel chair no movement from C4 down with physical help he went on to do law with that determination and exceedingly bright what could he have become? 

Normaly when you refer to Rugby you are talking about Union this tragic event which has ended a young mans career took place in league .

Pete to the uninitiated it doesn't matter what name it goes under, when brutality becomes the master then it is idiocy.

Agree then there was no need to name the team sport .

Pete why so touchy? whether it was rugby, union, or league, where does the game differ? it just looks like a no neck game to the onlooker either way.

Not touchy just querying if you are complaining about brutality in team sport why name one . 

If you are complaining about what happened to one young man the get the correct sport right where it happened . 

I agree with you seth. It does not matter whether it is league or union, spear tackles are dangerous.

Pete why so picky? I think anyone with the inkling of common sense knows what game it was, if I was talking about Aussie rules {various codes} I would just say 'Aussie Rules} Why mention other sports? when it is a form of rugby that is involved,

Football, all codes, is the up and coming affirmative action sport for women and the hotly contested ground for equality-of-outcomes pay.

Accidents do happen,

Jessie Humber breaks her neck during rugby game [click for link]

  and the different codes have different risks, such as the risk of head injury in AFL,

    but risk avoidance returns us to the far higher risks of poor health, such as obesity and diabeties.

Womens rugby league

Womens rugby

Womens AFL

I have deliberately left out the round ball game .  Because I like many others am sick and tired of the professional fouls (men's game, but doubtless the big money will encourage the same in the women's game) and the poor sportsmanship and thuggery of the supporters.

I call it -- catch and kill ---bloody stupid dangerous game why anyone would even consider it I do NOT know

 

I ask is God a ball?  -- why I ask is that everyone seems to adore balls and worship them ie --- football/cricket/golf/soccer/tennis etc etc --

 

I feel so sorry for children. 

The future for many in 'Big Australia' with the Ponzie population growth we have to have whether we like it or not, is to be born and raised in units in medium to high rise, surrounded by bitumen and concrete.

Any sport is highly organised to fit in with available venues.  They get there if their parents can be bothered and many are not, they have other things to do.  Kids can no longer roam around on bikes or play games in the streets for example.  

How quickly things have changed.

Yes where have the times gone when Mothers and Fathers took their kids out on the weekends and did interesting things with them --and also took quite a few of their friends along -- because their parents never did -- if you do not want to do this with your Kids then,  DO NOT HAVE THEM!

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