During the early part of his career, Brendan earned the nickname " Guineys " (the name of a well-known discount clothing and homeware store in Dublin at the time) which reflected his languid but highly skilful footballing abilities.
Brendan āGSTQā Mullins made.political donations to Simon Coveney
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Hard to see how rugby can continue in its current guise. The data on brain injury from repeated collisions is unnerving.
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Pro rugby will be dead in 10 years
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Stats are shocking. Chances of early onset dementia are about 1 in 10000
That article says tor lads who played in first fifteen years of pro game in England and Wales itās 1 in 20
Shocking as right.
No murmurs (as far as I am aware) of any Irish players taking similar cases. Perhaps as there is no allowance for class actions in Ireland and assume they couldnt join this case in the UK.
Carl hayman an obvious one from SH but many more named who would have played primarily super rugby? Hayman put down a few heavy seasons in France where the league is unbelieavbly attritional on forwards.
Alun Wyn Jones has played 180 odd more games than Paul O Connell didā¦ Thay is fucking ridiculous in an era where 180 games in itself would be a long pro career. He has been flogged (flogged himself maybe) for years. Hopefully from a selfish perspective the IRFU player management program will have saved the Irish lads the worst of this
Carl hayman actually played same number of game as Awjā¦ About 450. POC played 280. Some difference.
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I was at a game between Ulster B and Leinster B a few weeks back. Played in front of about 60 spectators, Sean Cronin playing for Leinster and Ian Madigan for Ulster. Seemed to be a woefully unnecessary ordeal to be putting players through.
What I donāt understand is why there is no talk of reducing the length of games. There is no way they can reduce the number of games as they desperately need the money, but 70 minute games would reduce the amount of rugby lads play, and the size of squads needed.
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The real point is that rugby should never have gone professional
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Fair point but had it not gone professional, the carnage might be even worse when you think about it.
Thatās a shocking article. One court case paying out and the floodgates will open and pro rugby will be dead.
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Presume the lads were coming back from injury or something but seems bizarre. Its a fair comment around length of games but youād possibly just drive up size of players if they didnāt need to last as long
A hard cap on the number of games any player plays in a season should be achievableā¦ Ireland and NZ manage it
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What number would you put on it?
Would reducing teams to 13 aside with 6 in the pack make a difference? One lock and 2 back rows?
Iād be far from an expert now pal. 25 maybeā¦ Even that might be too high. Would create a lot more opportunity for other players with minutes being managed.
Probably would. Anything that would promote running rugby and create space would help and drive need for aerobic fitness rather than bulk. Havenāt thought it through tho tbh.
Is league less impact do you think? No real scrums but maybe bigger hits in open play?
the hits in league are crazy
they smash people rather than tackle
The diet of grevy and mushy peas helps the northern lads absorbs the hits ā¦
All these contact sports are too dangerous now. American Football, soccer and Gaelic Games all have serious concussion and dementia problems as well.
Iām going to get my young fellow playing cricket.
Way more impact in open play in league ā¦ Scrums are relatively controlled and Iād say v few head injuries from them.
Vast majority of the obvious concussions come from poor technique IMO