To adjust your tackle technique and hit harder?Lizard wrote:3 games, 2 X-rays so far this season. Body might be trying to tell me something.
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To adjust your tackle technique and hit harder?Lizard wrote:3 games, 2 X-rays so far this season. Body might be trying to tell me something.
Only trouble the local A&E if you’ve actually broken something?Puja wrote:To adjust your tackle technique and hit harder?Lizard wrote:3 games, 2 X-rays so far this season. Body might be trying to tell me something.
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No charge. Remember, retirement is something only losers do.Lizard wrote:Ha ha. First x-ray, yeah maybe a bit more confidence in the tackle could have helped me not get swatted several yards onto my arse by a large gentleman whose muscles were outnumbered only by his tattoos. Just vertebral bruising that one.
The second one I was the tacklee, not tackler. Should meekly run into touch rather than propping off my right and trying a fend. Heel is still fucked a month later. X-ray showed nothing. Had an MRI Monday.
Thanks for your sympathy, cunts. My career (which BTW has been longer than Brad Thorn’s) is hanging by a thread...
Is that a thing now, for props or for wingers?Lizard wrote: Should meekly run into touch rather than propping off my right and trying a fend.
It turns out I sheared my heel pad off the bone. Nice.Puja wrote:No charge. Remember, retirement is something only losers do.Lizard wrote:Ha ha. First x-ray, yeah maybe a bit more confidence in the tackle could have helped me not get swatted several yards onto my arse by a large gentleman whose muscles were outnumbered only by his tattoos. Just vertebral bruising that one.
The second one I was the tacklee, not tackler. Should meekly run into touch rather than propping off my right and trying a fend. Heel is still fucked a month later. X-ray showed nothing. Had an MRI Monday.
Thanks for your sympathy, cunts. My career (which BTW has been longer than Brad Thorn’s) is hanging by a thread...
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PS. Hope it's actually nothing serious.
I've been doing it also. Not quite as sedate as on the video. Really enjoying it.Which Tyler wrote:Does walking rugby count as "Still Playing" - if so, I've recently returned to playing; despite being incapable of running, or jumping off my right; and not being able to risk further injuries due to work.
It's not the same, but it's good to feel safe, and to spend an hour at the club having fun and throwing a ball around. (We don't play quite the way it's shown in this video, I guess the rules have been adapted with experience)
Yeah, never seen that 3-step rule; and people can be a little... optimistic as to what counts as walking occasion.onlynameleft wrote:I've been doing it also. Not quite as sedate as on the video. Really enjoying it.
Good timing. You should be out of traction just in time to watch the final.Scrumhead wrote:Probably going to play my first game in 2yrs next weekend
Yeah, no way I could play that. I'd never be able to stick to walking.Which Tyler wrote:Yeah, never seen that 3-step rule; and people can be a little... optimistic as to what counts as walking occasion.onlynameleft wrote:I've been doing it also. Not quite as sedate as on the video. Really enjoying it.
We have some players where we're all sedate around them, and some where things like side-steps and more ahem... forceful touch tackles are allowed.
I hate to tell you this but, due the fact you’d already told us this on Tuesday, I think you played yesterday and were concussed leading to memory loss.Scrumhead wrote:Probably going to play next Saturday for the first time in 2yrs. Probably a bad idea ...
Haha. So I did. I must be going senile!Mellsblue wrote:I hate to tell you this but, due the fact you’d already told us this on Tuesday, I think you played yesterday and were concussed leading to memory loss.Scrumhead wrote:Probably going to play next Saturday for the first time in 2yrs. Probably a bad idea ...
I'm afraid not.Mr Mwenda wrote:However, is there any way of finding out if there is anything behind the symptoms nor if I'm just overly cautious/oversensitive/soft? I know there are some people with medical knowledge here. Posting here. Engaging with the Swedish medical system is battle of persistence at the best of times so I don't fancy trying during the pandemic.
You have my sympathy - I play in Wiltshire and there are lots of teams near airforce and army bases. Catch them when their Fijians are out, easy victory. Play them when the Fijians are at home and it's significantly more painful.Gloskarlos wrote:I'm still playing at 47, Vets mostly but get the occasional call up for the 2nds. No longer back row, I've lost loads of weight and maintained my pace more or less so now play 13. difficult trying not to get sucked in to the forwards. Manage about 6 games a season - one a month which suits me fine as it allows a long recovery period....
We always play a rugby for heroes festival showcase match - Old Leamingtonians Nomads (us vets) against the Army FUBARS vets. I swear every single one of those guys is 35 years and a day old and still fit as butchers dogs. Some of the Fijian guys that play for them are so wide there's no chance of bringing then down on your own, arms won't go round their thighs. Good fun but sh1t the bed do you ache for a week afterwards.