General Rugby Discussion 3

From shaved heads and streaking? Link please.

I have been puzzled over the last few years why a school with the rugby history of M.C.B. has been AWOL in providing players. It seems that the school no longer approaches the game with any sense of value or importance. This activity will be another nail in it's coffin. The Governing body of the school will be loathe to fund any extra curricular rugby activity now and they would be difficult to persuade differently. 157 years of rugby history binned by morons.

The Rugby culture of the school in my time there had a bit of this arseing about but more humourous than bullying young guys to do such creepy, bullying, juvenile and disturbing stuff. You could return to the hotel and find your bed stolen..or your shoes nailed to the floor. One guy in Canada had his trousers hauled up a huge flagpole.etc. I suspect that anyone who had tried that disgraceful stuff in my day would have had their clock cleaned very swiftly.

No.

The naked run and the head shaving, I'd have no problem with. The filming would be an issue.

There's no place in society where it can be deemed ok to film an U18 running naked, then use that footage as leverage for them to be forced to shave their head.

If it happened to a child of mine, I want real action against those that did it and those that were supposed to be supervising the teens rather than seeking damages

The head shaving, and streaking, if they were voluntary aren't anything too crazy. And can have team building positives in terms of shared experiences / identity.

But the filming of the streaking and blackmail of using it to force the head shaving is completely wrong, theres no place for that kind of coercion in team building.

And thats leaving aside the "perform[ing] acts on a sex toy while wearing women’s underwear", which is far more problematic. Thats just bizzare and completely inappropriate for an underage group of kids, theres no justification or defense of it whatsoever.

Heads should roll, it shouldn't just be the financial pay out.

I’ve been playing without one the last 6/7 seasons. Had a bad throat infection that created a weird gag reflex and haven’t been able to manage one since

Haven’t worn one for a good few years. In my early 30s so know the risk but had 1 and a half teeth knocked out with one in as a 17 year old. Probably 25/30% of my team play without one. I can’t communicate properly/as clearly as I want to is my reason.

Soggy biscuit and dildos were never part of it in the teams I was involved in. So not sure why you quoted me.

Yea, watching the worst Welsh team in history makes for riveting viewing. I wish they could do an All or Nothing style show, follow a team through the whole tournament.

Not a fan of names on rugby jerseys.

Maybe the Netflix production was always going to suck but the unions may have missed a trick here in terms of growing the game/audience. At the same time I haven't seen one of these sports fly on the wall series that's been worth watching (even if lots of people enjoy them), and Im sure it's a pain in the arse having cameras around all the time. Then apparently a bunch of lads did cooperate, spent personal time and ended up not making the cut. Business wise I think Netflix have run out of road on this type of show and are going to focus on live sport.

Yep, I agree with you, they really have. Drive to Survive has hugely increased the popularity of Formula 1. Pretty much every season has been great with some brilliant off the cuff and unexpected moments with a lot of people speaking their minds.

Compare that to the rugby one and you've Andrew Porter being interviewed in a gym where there's an irfu media officer hidden in the background (can be seen in a mirror) clearly font) controlling the output. It was doomed from the start with that sort of control.

Stuart Lancaster given the bullet...

Munster?