Whatâs on ??
Say you heard wrong. Not full but thereâs a big crowd in.
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I just saw a clip of the Leinster try. Sexton ran straight into the post for it 
Is he okay? 
Concussed
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A lady turned around to me yesterday in Parnell Park to ask me if I knew the score in the rugby match.
I laughed at her and shook my head. No. No, I donât.
She didnât care too much.
I also met an old work colleague who is (was) a huge Munster rugby fan. âIt was a tough choice between here and the Aviva!â, he says.
I didnât meet him in the Aviva, did I? Rugby will be gone altogether in a year or two.
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From The IndoâŚ
School rugby would be banned if it was a drug, such is the rate of harm and injury, an expert has claimed.
People do not understand the full range of âhorrendousâ injuries that occur, said Prof Allyson Pollock, Professor of Public Health at the University of London.
One neurosurgeon has spoken of picking pieces of bone out of peopleâs brains, she added.
It is also not uncommon for children to lose a kidney or suffer serious concussion.
Prof Pollock, who spoke at the annual meeting of the Irish Medical Organisation in Sligo, is one of 70 doctors, academics and health professionals who signed an open letter last month calling on schools to ban rugby tackling and urging them to move to touch and non-contact versions of the sport.
âWe know from an Ulster study that out of 825 schoolboys in a season there were 426 injuries, most of them serious,â said Prof Pollock, the author of Tackling Rugby: What Every Parent Should Know About Injuries.
"The number of children experiencing one or more injuries in a season is 36pc.
"Would you want your child to have a 36pc rate of injury in a season? Would you want them to have a 10pc to 20pc chance of concussion in a season?
âThere has to be a radical change in the laws of the game for young people. Iâd remove the governance where World Rugby controls the laws of the game.â
Prof Pollock said rugby was a âŹ1bn-a-year industry.
âYou have to have proper child representation,â she said.
"The voice of children is never heard. Many children are terrified about playing. Many love the game, but many who hate the game are frightened.
âLetting World Rugby be in charge of schools rugby is like letting McDonaldâs be in charge of the school canteen.â
Children who are injured are more likely to suffer another injury, said the professor.
Her advice to parents is to ask the school for injury data and details of how injuries are monitored.
âIf schools canât give it to them, walk away,â she urged.
Children build themselves up and âlook like monstersâ, but they are disguising the fact they have fragile bones.
âTheir brains are developing until they are 24,â said Prof Pollock.
âWe know with concussion that it has short-term effects - epilepsy, visual problems, headaches, cognitive problems and mental health problems, depression. We still donât under understand the full range of consequences.â
426 âseriousâ injuries out of 825 schoolboys? I smell absolute bullshit
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Why would they lie ?
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Just read a blurb on their report. Itâs actually just over 200 âseriousâ injuries, certainly not âmostâ of the 425 she cites. When we say serious it means more than 28 days away from the sport so not not necessarily actually âseriousâ. That includes your muscle and ligament injuries.
Pollock has been shown before to talk utter shit and misrepresent studies.
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Sweep sweep
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The rugby crowd selectively believe the medical professionals when it suits their argument.
âSexton wouldnât be allowed play unless the medics were completely happy to sign off on his participation.â
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âThis medical report on all these alleged injuries sustained by young kids is rubbish.â
Sweep sweepâŚ
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Rugby is Big Tobacco
Hayden Triggs
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I believe heâs not that type of player.
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Pow right in the kisser
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A thugs game, played by gentlemen
Not far off the actual stock answer the club came out with actually. It was his âfirst game with the clubâ.