Doctors urge schools to ban tackling in rugby ?

[Barry White]

Well acording to the BBC Doctors are urging that tackling should be banned in rugby at school and replaced by the none contact version called touch rugby.
Whatever next non contact boxing?
I was never any good at rugby but enjoyed playing at school but if the ground was icy and hard we had to do the touch version and I hated it.
What do you think about Britain becoming a nancy state?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35712635

 

[Pete999]

H&S gone mad

 

[telectrix]

next thing will be softballs in cricket, rubber hockey sticks, and full face masks in the classroom in case , like my old maths teacher, teacher spits while slagging off your arithmetic.

 

[Adam W]

Doctors poking their noses in. They did something similar with alcohol pricing, announcing that raising the price of a pint by x amount would save x number of lives per year, based on the assumption that consumption was directly linked to price and that people wouldn't try to beat the price hike by getting hammered at home before they go on a night out.

This whole argument reminds me of an episode of South Park - kick-off was banned in schools because it was considered too dangerous, one sarcastic comment lead to another and they ended up playing a game where they wear bras and tin foil hats and pass a balloon around while complimenting each other.
The game (and episode) were called 'Sarcastaball'.

 

[Pete999]

next thing will be softballs in cricket, rubber hockey sticks, and full face masks in the classroom in case , like my old maths teacher, teacher spits while slagging off your arithmetic.

Sponge blackboard rubbers, my science master took great pride in chucking the rubber at those who wern't paying attention

 

[Paul.M]

Sponge blackboard rubbers, my science master took great pride in chucking the rubber at those who wern't paying attention

WTF.... Your science teacher chucked comdoms at you???? Now that is just wrong :willy_nilly:


Back on topic. At school the rule was "soft tackles" but that means nothing on the pitch when the games teacher is not looking. 12-16 year olds kicking hells bells out of each other was just a Tuesday afternoon sports lesson, these days it's a "No win no fee" claim.

 

[Octopus]

Well acording to the BBC Doctors are urging that tackling should be banned in rugby at school and replaced by the none contact version called touch rugby.
Whatever next non contact boxing?
I was never any good at rugby but enjoyed playing at school but if the ground was icy and hard we had to do the touch version and I hated it.
What do you think about Britain becoming a nancy state?

Doctors urge schools to ban tackling in rugby - BBC News

Like that!

Kids have almost no opportunity to win and loose these days, no wonder that they fair badly against the EE's in the job market

 

[Pete999]

WTF.... Your science teacher chucked comdoms at you???? Now that is just wrong :willy_nilly:


Back on topic. At school the rule was "soft tackles" but that means nothing on the pitch when the games teacher is not looking. 12-16 year olds kicking hells bells out of each other was just a Tuesday afternoon sports lesson, these days it's a "No win no fee" claim.

For Rubbers read "blackboard rubbers

 

[Octopus]

Sponge blackboard rubbers, my science master took great pride in chucking the rubber at those who wern't paying attention

My maths teacher used to throw the black board rubber across the room!

 

[Paul.M]

For Rubbers read "blackboard rubbers"

Your now just being racist towards ethnic minority pieces of wood! :rofl:


Get your own back later Pete

 

[Barry White]

My maths teacher used to throw the black board rubber across the room!

So did mine and to make matters worse he was a catholic priest!

 

[Midwest]

My maths teacher used to throw the black board rubber across the room!

Ummph pathetic. My Latin teacher, yes Latin, his weapon of choice was chalk, then blackboard rubber until we hid them. So in a moment of frustration, when he couldn't find them, he threw the only thing to hand, which was a square edged metal waste bin. It missed his intended target, and struck a pupil behind, who luckerly deflected the missile by raising his desk lid, which split in two. Teacher used the splinter desk lid, as his new cane. Argh sigh, grammer schools.

 

[Geordie Spark]

For Rubbers read "blackboard rubbers

Aye, chunks of wood a bit like me Dad's shoe brushes but with felt or similar where the bristles should be.

(and by God, they don't half hurt when the land on you)

 

[Geordie Spark]

So did mine and to make matters worse he was a catholic priest!

So you're upset cos instead of chucking Holy Water at you he chucked a wooden balackboard (nowadays "Chalkboard" due to Political Correctness crap) duster at you??

 

[Harni]

everything in life has a degree is risk. Its all about evaluating that risk and if its worth it and i think we are becoming more and more soft.
You watch the 6 nations at the moment. How many of them are truely hurt? Yeah a bit of blood gets spilt, maybe someone gets sent of winded but rarely do they get hospitalised.
Plus, at our school it was a unwritten rule that if you had a fight to settle with someone, you did it on the rugby pitch and the teachers usually turned a blind eye unless it got out of hand!