BrianW said:
Whinging twats! It was a hard but fair tackle. It's not news that you can break bones on a football field. I knew a lad get his collarbone broke playing at school in a non-competitive match where no-one involved gave a shit who won. These things happen. The only way to stop it is to change the rules to ban all physical contact - I doubt any bones get broke in netball, but they don't get many 40,000 plus crowds either.
When is something going to be done about deliberate attempts to injure that don't make contact? In my view those should be punished far more severely than any tackle within the rules that accidentally causes injury.
How many injuries?
• The rate of injury for netballers is 14 injuries per 1,000
hours played.
• From 2002-2004, netball injury statistics recorded 635
Victorian hospital admissions and 2,316 emergency
department presentations.
• Within this period, females accounted for 88% of
netballers treated in Victorian hospitals.
The causes and types of injuries
• Common causes of injuries are awkward landings,
slips/falls, player contact/collision, over-exertion,
overuse and being hit by the ball.
• Ankle, wrist, hand, finger and knee injuries occur
frequently.
• The most common types of injuries are sprains,
bruising, fractures and dislocations