What can a physio do that a bottle of water and a few fucks cant?
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I vaguely remember in my underage hurling days a playerâs father acting as physio one year and spraying Lynx deodorant on injured limbs.
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Iâd a fella try to spray deep heat on a cut one day.
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Why donât they just coach kids to tackle properly? Not that Iâm complaining, I hope there are a rake of high profile concussions over the next few months⌠A coma would be a real game changer.
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True, there are specialists in sports injuries among them. But an awful lot of these âexpertsâ have no medical knowledge of sports injuries. Many specialise instead in gender issues and politics.
The list of signatories includes two sociologists whose academic subjects are sexuality and sport.
Another specialises in sport and race, still another studies homophobia, two concentrate on childrenâs rights, and thereâs an expert in environmental pollution as well as a specialist in masculinity.
As for the letterâs two main signatories, neither are experts in broken bones and spinal injuries. First, let us look at Allyson Pollock. Yes, sheâs a professor of public health research at Queen Mary University, London. But she specialises in attacking the Governmentâs NHS reforms, particularly any suggestion of the private sector intervening in the hallowed NHS.
To be fair to Professor Pollock, her son was injured on the rugby field â a shattered cheekbone â which must be distressing for any parent. But does that really give her the authority to try to emasculate the game for children across the country?
Not according to Dr Ken Quarrie, Senior Scientist (Injury Prevention & Performance) for the New Zealand Rugby Union. Five years ago, when Professor Pollock called for âhigh tackles and scrums to be banned in schoolsâ, he accused her of wilfully misrepresenting research about schoolboy injuries to prove her case.
In an internet blog criticising Pollock, he highlighted an extensive review of rugby injuries that found âthe risk of catastrophic injury was comparable with that experienced by most people in work-based situations and lower than that experienced by motorcyclists, pedestrians and car occupantsâ.
Now, letâs take the other main signatory, Professor Eric Anderson of the University of Winchester. He is an American sociologist and sexologist, âspecialising in adolescent menâs gender and sexualitiesâ.
Until now, heâs been most prominent for getting into a row with Alan Titchmarsh, the Chancellor of Winchester University, who wasnât happy with Professor Andersonâs views on having sex with young men.
And you can see why. In 2011, Professor Anderson revealed at an Oxford University debate that he had slept with âeasily over a thousand peopleâ, and joked he was a sexual âpredatorâ. He said: 'I like sex with 16, 17, 18-year-old boys particularly, itâs getting harder for me to get them, but Iâm still finding them.
âI hope between the age of 43 and the time I die I can have sex with another thousand â that would be awesome, even if I have to buy them, of course, not a problem.â
Whatâs the connection between this manâs curious CV and his ability to judge the risks of rugby injuries? Nope â I donât see it, either.
And so it goes on with many of the other signatories â a series of Left-wing academics.
Thereâs Professor John Ashton, a lecturer in public health, and another opponent of the Governmentâs NHS reforms. Heâs keen, too, to reduce stress for workers and on lowering the age of consent to 15, arguing that the current legal limit prevents sexually active younger teennagers from getting support with issues of disease and contraception.
Several of the signatories specialise in gender and sexuality issues in sport. Step forward, Dr Adi Adams, a sociologist at the University of Bath, and author of I Kiss Them Because I Love Them: The Emergence of Heterosexual Men Kissing in British Institutes Of Education.
Itâs hard to avoid the conclusion that this letter is more about political views than medical science and childrenâs safety. Rugby is a sport often associated with public schools, grammar schools and the middle classes â although try telling that to the rugby players of Wales, where the sport is a national religion.
Itâs a sport associated, too, with old-fashioned male aggression â and salty jokes in the rugby club bar after too many pints of lager.
All this is anathema to the gender neutral, politically correct views of so many Left-wing lecturers on todayâs college campuses.
Theyâre intent on the feminisation of sport despite the fact that competitive exercise is an extraordinarily effective way of diverting male testosterone away from violence and thugishness on the High Street.
Many young men from tricky backgrounds, who havenât had the advantage of completing a gender studies degree, are deeply grateful for the escape from criminal violence â and the great pleasure â that sport can bring.
Practically all sport â from tennis to golf â brings the risk of injury. Thatâs what happens when you run about and throw things. But sport is also an integral, natural part of human life. By all means, choose not to play rugby â but how dare these academics with their social agendas try to stop others doing the thing that they love?
_The PC Killjoys _
Professor Eric Anderson is Professor of Sport, Masculinities and Sexualities at Winchester University. Among his publications are In The Game: Gay Athletes And The Cult Of Masculinity, and 21st Century Jocks: Sporting Men And Contemporary Heterosexuality.
According to his CV, his work âshows a decline in cultural homohysteria leading to a softening of heterosexual masculinities. This permits heterosexual men to kiss, cuddle and love one another; and promotes inclusive attitudes toward openly gay athletes and the recognition of bisexuality.â
Americaâs first openly gay high school sports coach, Anderson gave a speech at Oxford in 2011 entitled âWhy gay sex is bestâ.
Professor Allyson Pollock is Professor of Public Health Research and Policy at Queen Mary University of London. She has also spearheaded opposition to the part privatisation of the NHS, and appeared before Parliamentary inquiries, opposing Private Finance Initiatives â the funding of NHS infrastructure projects with private money.
She has argued that the health service is under such threat from privatisation that a new government Bill is needed to âreinstateâ the NHS.
Pollock is a regular contributor to the Left-wing Guardian news-paper, writing articles with headlines such as: âNHS privatisation keeps on failing patients â despite a decade of warningsâ.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3474062/What-rugby-balls-Experts-demanding-ban-tackles-18s-rugby-reveal-motley-scrum-lefties-gender-obsessives-gay-campaigners-worryingly-insidious-agenda.html#ixzz41wZ80DwQ
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Playing the man not the ball. Isnât that the whole problem with modern rugby.
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I see George hook has issued a legal letter to Jonny sexton over sexton saying in an interview that George does not believe what he says himself.
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Let them at it.
It would be gas if Hook went after Sexton and then Sexton used the âwell I was concussed numerous times in recent years so I donât quite remember making those alleged commentsâ defence.
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This will end badly for Hook.
Hopefully so. He is a nasty bastard.
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Christ- what vile people
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Heaslip and Healy skewered in the past week. Whoâs next?
Ewan McKenna is a hero.
Whoâs Healy? What happened?
He told a supporter to FRO.
Oh, Proper Church.
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