What more do you want on a sunday afternoon but watching a rugby match where you don't know who's going to win.
A red card would be devastating... Then again, sometimes, a red card is a necessary evil, as justice has to be made. It’s a matter of honor.
Oh wait, I completely forgot UK tv production did not show you what happened a second before... Sheesh, referring at its best...
We had a French commenter on the side of the field, Saturday in Twickenham (Benjamin Kayser, former player in the French team). He mentioned how incredibly loud the impacts were during that specific game. Kayser, as a former talonneur (hooker?) isn’t the soft kind... Still, nobody was injured. Those players are really providing an out of this world physical performance, for the sake of the game. I deeply admire that.
I can agree that the hits have got bigger and more spectacular, but the physicality of the game has lessened considerably, I speak as an almost ex player a 6 that converted to hooker We have lost proper scrum, there is no rucking nobody gets away with a slap let alone a full on punch, these players now might be bigger and faster but they are pretty soft compared to the guys who are commentating, Martin J, Bayfield, Lawrence, Ugo, Brian Moore would have most of the current crop running home to mummy, the game is being changed for telly might make it good to watch but as a player its becoming far too PC
Modern international rugby players have grown significantly since their counterparts played 25 years ago. In a study, published in the BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, it revealed that the mean body mass of international players increased from 84.8kg in 1995, to 105.4kg in 2015. https://www.joe.ie/sport/graph-bigg...ayers-has-changed-in-the-last-40-years-434067
Cant agree with you there Kato, I remember reading a stat some time back that before the pro game took off, on average there was an injury every 11 games now it’s 11 minutes. Pro players are so much bigger and so much faster these days the hits now are phenomenal.
With three matches on today at 14.15 / 16.45 / 20.00 probably only the last two games worth watching,Imo.
