My BFFs girlfriend comes running off the field towards my wife and I, holding her face, and says (very calmly) that she thinks she may have broke her nose. She takes her hands away from her face and her nose has a triangle dent like this < and is pouring blood. My wife and I just stare at her. Then my wife kinda yells YES IT'S FUCKING BROKEN. And this woman feels her nose and just pushes it back straight. Flares her nostrils and says, Eh, I can breath, I'm fine and returns to the fucking field. This is normal rugby behavior.
My BFF was the coach and she was fucking this girl, so she wasn't going to get benched. Also, puking is a big no-no until well after the game and maybe 3 hours into the party. I've never felt so unsafe for everyone involved than at a girls rugby party. I once did shots from a 12 foot long beer bong that had to be filled from the second floor at a rugby party.
Unless you’re King Ritchie McCaw and it’s the final of the World Cup against France in NZ and it’s 77 minutes into an 80 minute game and we (NZ) are leading by 1.
RC had a yak on the sideline in between plays lol, poor fucker was dead on his feet but no way in hell he was leaving that field, short of being dead, but even then we’d have revived him and sent him back in there.
I mean, y'all are kind of famous for rugby(I'm in the desert of America and don't even follow rugby and I know about the all blacks, word gets around lol), I get why they'd keep going lol.
I believe that’s known as a “pre-existing condition” so doesn’t count lol, kidding, yeah he busted a toe I think in the 2011 super series and hid the injury from the team and doctors etc, refused to get an x-ray done because once that happened it would have to be disclosed.
My guess is he felt obligated to be on the field as the captain and as such put his health 3rd to the team (1st) and the country (2nd).
It’s probably also why he is now Sir Richie McCaw, the MF earned it IMO.
But have you ever had to drink out of the garden watering can for a party foul? Because it has been filled through the post match party with a little bit of everything…and I mean everything.
Watering can sound like an upgrade from shooting the boot tbh. At least you’d be able to feel confident that those curly hairs definitely weren’t from someone’s ankle.
wait, wait, wait, slow down. youre like starting one interesting story after another here… lets back up a bit and start with the top one. …so, your bff and the coach, go on…?!
It ain't about coaching. It's just straight up different breed and mentality. My cousin is 5'4" and 130 lbs soaking wet. She's also a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, a rugby player, and mother of 2 boys from her 6'3" Nordic husband. I have a big head, but those boy's heads make watermelons look small.
I was playing a rugby game as a kid in the snow and was feeling a little cold. Asked the coach to sub me back in so I could warm up but when I went on I had a hard time staying up. Ended up going to the paramedics to get checked and it turned out I was hypothermic, I swear when you're playing rugby you just don't notice that sort of stuff
I'm known for running around with injuries like nothing happened (to the point where a male co-worker nearly fainted when he heard my broken rib scrunch together). Maybe I was a rugby player in my former life.
Shades of the legend that is Sir Wayne "Buck" Shelford
"Was a notable victim of the infamous "Battle of Nantes" in the second Test. Roughly 20 minutes into the match, he was caught at the bottom of a rather aggressive ruck, and a French boot kicked his groin, ripping his scrotum and leaving one testicle hanging free. He also lost four teeth in the process. After discovering the injury to his scrotum, he calmly asked the physiotherapist to stitch up the tear and returned to the field before a blow to his head left him concussed"
Football is the most watched sport in the world for a reason. It’s a shame they have to roll around just to call attention to a potential foul but it is what it is.
I've seen some pretty aggressive flopping in women's soccer as well, but I will give them credit, the "men's" soccer is definitely the worst offender of eggregious flopping in the sport. I've never understood it.
"He hurt my feelings" (proceeds to fall to the ground and flop about like an epileptic fish out of water)
Cause many players get fouled and the red either doesn't see or doesn't call it.
Flopping around gets the attention of the ref to take action.
This is especially true with more skillful played that are targeted. If they didn't do that, they will have a much shorter career. When a single year's income can mean riches or rags for a lot of these players, you understand the flopping around.
It’s on the refereeing imo. I love the sport but for the life of me can’t understand why they don’t hand out retroactive punishments for that bullshit.
One of my brother’s teammates blew out his knee at a game. By all accounts it was an open wound. My brother also played ice hockey, there was a team that was known to be violent, my mom showed up after a brawl and saw someone with a bloody skate walk by, my brother wasn’t even injured or involved.
Shelford made his Test debut for the All Blacks later that year against France in a 19–7 victory in Toulouse, and then was a notable victim of the infamous "Battle of Nantes" in the second Test. Roughly 20 minutes into the match, he was caught at the bottom of a rather aggressive ruck, and a French boot kicked his groin, ripping his scrotum and leaving one testicle hanging free. He also lost four teeth in the process. After discovering the injury to his scrotum, he calmly asked the physiotherapist to stitch up the tear and returned to the field before a blow to his head left him concussed. He was substituted and watched the remainder of the game from the grandstand where he witnessed the All Blacks lose 16–3.\3])
I used to work as a medic and I would do rugby standbys. It was the most awkward thing ever, just sitting there watching someone getting knocked out cold and popping their shoulder out and not knowing if you are supposed to go help out or not. Eventually I started giving coaches radios at the beginning so they could choose for me to go out or not because the player would get pulled for this game and I think the next game if the medic goes in the field for them so they really only had me there because the league required it.
You'd like ice hockey. The end-of-season list of injuries to heal is staggering with the separated shoulders and broken ribs.
Ref throws most of the teeth into the bench and everyone carries on. Those folks are tough!
Was at a rugby match one time and dude broke his collar bone. He was walking around asking for aspirin. I called the ambulance and he thought I was being dramatic.
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Soccer players pretend they’re injured.
Rugby players pretend they’re not injured.