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...now we're about to enter into the world of "deferred sport".
A scottish professor of an institute nothing to do with schools or sports has suggested that the scrum be banned from school rugby.
I really don't need to say anything else, do I?
I can see it now. Top school rugby players show up in their first year at university for practice, see the scrum machine and run a mile. Oh yes, what a nation of safe individuals this would make us...
I particularly like her highlighted quote - "If youngsters were coming back from school trips with these rates of injuries it would be enough to trigger a major inquiry". Yes dear - and if school trips were as exciting or engaging as school sports then maybe the kids would be queueing up to them as well. School trips sucked all the life out of every museum or living history project I ever visited. I have returned to a lot of sites that got ruined by school trips to find that I missed more than I saw, and remain very grateful for enthusiastic parents giving me the chance to experience them properly.
At the time, however, putting on the school colours and taking five for seven on a drying wicket with just enough breeze for me to get drift as well? Getting under a high ball and being the only one on the field with the guts to try catching it, and succeeding? Walking in on the school dux as he sent his javelin five metres further down the field than any of the rest of us on our best day, just so we could be at ours before his landed? Getting so thoroughly owned on a hockey pitch it was embarrassing, but at least everyone was embarrassed together?
No fricking contest.
Take away the scrum, and next it'll be the slide tackle, then the cricket and hockey ball, then sport in general. I've already watched my music get torn up, thrown on the ground, unrinated on and dumped in a skip in the name of improving education - for fucks sake don't do it to sport as well.
A scottish professor of an institute nothing to do with schools or sports has suggested that the scrum be banned from school rugby.
I really don't need to say anything else, do I?
I can see it now. Top school rugby players show up in their first year at university for practice, see the scrum machine and run a mile. Oh yes, what a nation of safe individuals this would make us...
I particularly like her highlighted quote - "If youngsters were coming back from school trips with these rates of injuries it would be enough to trigger a major inquiry". Yes dear - and if school trips were as exciting or engaging as school sports then maybe the kids would be queueing up to them as well. School trips sucked all the life out of every museum or living history project I ever visited. I have returned to a lot of sites that got ruined by school trips to find that I missed more than I saw, and remain very grateful for enthusiastic parents giving me the chance to experience them properly.
At the time, however, putting on the school colours and taking five for seven on a drying wicket with just enough breeze for me to get drift as well? Getting under a high ball and being the only one on the field with the guts to try catching it, and succeeding? Walking in on the school dux as he sent his javelin five metres further down the field than any of the rest of us on our best day, just so we could be at ours before his landed? Getting so thoroughly owned on a hockey pitch it was embarrassing, but at least everyone was embarrassed together?
No fricking contest.
Take away the scrum, and next it'll be the slide tackle, then the cricket and hockey ball, then sport in general. I've already watched my music get torn up, thrown on the ground, unrinated on and dumped in a skip in the name of improving education - for fucks sake don't do it to sport as well.
