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Schools to offer non-contact rugby to ease 'injury |
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Steve@Mose
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Posted: 15 hours 10 minutes ago at 23:11 |
Schools to offer non-contact rugby to ease 'injury fears'
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Bigmalc
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Meanwhile 1000s of children participate in rugby on Sunday morning at their local clubs which over the past 40 years have kept the game alive.
If the school plays rugby fine but team spirit,loyalty and enjoyment are fostered at grass roots level. As usual the RFU are tinkering. Rugby is a game for all but only became popular in public and grammar schools after WW1.I watch games at various levels - are you telling me that players from the SW , Midlands or N are all posh white boys? Happy to enter the debate if you think I'm wrong.
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Mark W-J
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Rugby's not for everyone. A lot of kids don't enjoy the physical contact, especially when they hit secondary school where some of their classmates could be a foot taller and three stone heavier than them. I know one former Premiership/ international player who didn't want his children playing the sport because of the injuries that he had suffered on the pitch, and two of our current squad (both from the SH) join in the social touch rugby during the summer months, because that's where they developed their love of the game as kids. If this means that more children get to enjoy different formats of the game then I'm all for it.
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rugbychris
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It's a poorly thought out fudge if you ask me. It's touch with far more rules. PE teachers are already overloaded why on earth are they going to spend time learning to teach a new game that has no pathway for players and no form of competition. It doesn't address the issue of falling numbers at community clubs. Touch and Tag are popular in London and I know of hardly any conversions that have come to our club from playing non-contact.
Giving 33 million a year to 10 profligate clubs and then spending next to nothing on a new game that is supposed to create a whole new audience. Are you kidding? I've read the whole report (probably written with chatgpt) and they are going to create a head of schools role and employ 100 part-time managers (1 day a week). Follow the money. It's embarrassing.
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JZSmith
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Totally agree Mark. It seems a very sensible way to introduce more kids to the game with some of them no doubt moving to "proper rugby". The others will if nothing else keep themselves fit which can't be a bad thing.
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