BlueBearBoots said:
From what you say you obviously throw yourself into whatever you are doing heart and soul - good for you hope a few broken bones didn't spoil it for you.
We played a game called shinty - got wacked on my brow brown which fractured and I had a corker of a black eye, when we moved onto hockey I couldn't do it was too scared of being clobbered again
Was a defender and as you say would often get stuck in rather than concede a goal, guess you could say i tracked back. I kept going back for more so it did spoil it for me at all. Playing for my county, north England, Midlands at hockey up to U21 level so you have to love it to do all the training. I was playing 6 days a week at one point, which resulted in the stress fracture.
We used to play each other at sports, rugby vs hockey at cricket, cricket vs rugby and hockey - even hockey vs cricket at rugby (football wasnt on the agenda - too soft!!). I'll never forget an England U21 rugby prop, a huge lad, running away from the ball at Hockey, because he was scared, he said a similar thing about being hit with a fist rather than a lump of wood.