Injury Updates

[AlexWilliamsGloves]

Having played football, RL and RU, I would suggest that maybe footballers tend to do more sprints and use their agility more, as well as the fact they kick the ball more often and will often lunge/stretch. A fair amount of twisting movements in football too.

Not sure about there being more dead legs in football. Rugby players get them regularly but play through them. I got so many playing rugby, especially in rucks when playing union. Not something I miss. I am convinced you are more likely to get injured in rugby post the initial contact in the tackle due to someone's elbows, hips, heads and knees crashing into you. Probably the most common injury in both forms of rugby are broken fingers.

Yeah the fingers thing still makes me wince....can hurt them even just catching the ball FFS

I played Union until recently....and it was always my knees....whether from getting tackled whilst feet/studs were planted....or from just getting folded in a ruck/maul....

Always preferred playing rugby...and tbh, these days i much prefer watching it to football....i played out half and scrum half through school.....and then wherever i was told now that im passed it :-)

 

[ami]

Anyone knows how long Aké could be out?

 

[Ric]

 

[Manc in London]

Yeah the fingers thing still makes me wince....can hurt them even just catching the ball FFS

I played Union until recently....and it was always my knees....whether from getting tackled whilst feet/studs were planted....or from just getting folded in a ruck/maul....

Always preferred playing rugby...and tbh, these days i much prefer watching it to football....i played out half and scrum half through school.....and then wherever i was told now that im passed it :-)

Yes, I would think knee injuries are more common in union than league or football with all what goes on in the rucks. Most people I know who played in the forwards have long term issues with knees, hands, shoulders etc..

Last played league and union at university over 20 years ago. It was an act of self preservation.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Any news on mendy yet?

 

[blueinsa]

Perhaps due to the type of training they do,and in particular the lifts (Squats and Deads) their bodies are more conditioned and stronger,especially where the posterior chain is concerned.

Then,of course,there is also the extra supplementation that needs to be factored.

I also think we have footballers now that if they are 99% fit, the 1% tells them they just cant play.

Spoilt rich cunts probably best sums them up.

 

[mccity]

As a (ex) rugby player, ive always wondered why do football players get seemingly more innocuous injuries (hamstring, deadleg, groin strain etc) that keep them out of games for periods of time....yet rugby players, in high impact and fast games, dont?

Is it largely precautionary? Todays professional rugby players are incredibly fit and not just the fat weight lifters of old. I guess they dont play as many games?

Is it possible that there's some sort of availability bias?

What I mean is, how many rugby games are there? At least compared to the amount of football games? And how many teams are there too? I don't know rugby, but I know in football that there's an entire continent filled with leagues filled with 16-20 teams that play regularly 1-2 games a week for 9 months of the year. I have to assume that's a lot more than rugby, in which case statistically I'd expect to see more of these kind of injuries in football.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Any news on mendy yet?

Depends which Whatsapp group you're on.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Depends which Whatsapp group you're on.

Meaning?

 

[shemnel]

Meaning?

I think bad rumours are circulating. Rumours. Always the bleeding rumours.