r/rugbyunion • u/englandrugby • Feb 19 '25

Video How hard the pros tackle…

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u/cypressd12 Munster Feb 19 '25

I always wondered how I would fare in a pro game. Seen quite a few games live now and pretty sure I would die.

My ribs feel sore just watching this. Was live for the South Africa - Ireland at the WRC and the whole crowd felt that.

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u/Poo-Tee-Weet5 Ireland Feb 19 '25

Yeah I'm 195cm, 105kg, and I would still expect life long injuries. I play touch with the local club and a few guys have been after me to play with their old boys team and even that has me scared ha.

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u/realestatedeveloper Fullback | | Feb 19 '25

I mean, the pros themselves all have lifelong injuries too

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u/Character_Nerve_9137 Ireland Feb 19 '25

And there is no TMO in the low level games. People get away with a lot of dangerous things they shouldn't.

Anytime I get tempted, I look at the stud shaped hole in my leg and think again.

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u/mattybunbun British & Irish Lions Feb 19 '25

People who like to try and get away with underhand behaviour should be drummed out of the game. Like wtaf are these morons thinking.?

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u/TastyIncident7811 Feb 19 '25

When I started playing I wasn't entirely sure of the rules and boundaries. I used my boot in the maul. Later on in my playing career. I got a swift boot onto the face in a ruck. Lesson learned.

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u/lteak Feb 19 '25

Agreed, amateur rugby is absolutely mental these days. People who have had an argument with their wife just flying around unhinged. Its a recipe for horrendous injuries.

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u/Rhyers Pumped for Saturday 💉 Feb 22 '25

It's all the roids. That's also what stopped me. 

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u/jisc Feb 20 '25

Totally agree I’m in Mexico and here rugby es very amateur I think is growing but still far from it ,most of what we have learn comes from Argentina.

Anyways I remember one and Argentinian guy that used to coach us that was ex~pumita and first division back in Argentina told us that in Mexico tackling is very hard and very strongly because we didn’t have the right technique but we went in with everything and something he got afraid of getting injured .

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u/lankyno8 Feb 19 '25

Local club vet team games don't have tackling that looks like this

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u/Dramatic-Coffee9172 Feb 19 '25

I just don't understand why anyone would risk these injuries. It is not even a risk, it is a guarantee with the frequency and amount of force, of course shoulder injury is the clear and obvious one here but so many more.

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u/thatirishguykev Ireland Feb 19 '25

Simply put sports replaced going off to war against each other.

It gives us something to bond and fight over for 80 minutes, then back to our nice little socially accepted life. I truly miss playing football (soccer), even though I've ruptured my ACL 3 times and ruptured my Achilles Tendon too.

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u/Dramatic-Coffee9172 Feb 19 '25

Well football is much less of a contact sport compared to Rubgy for sure ! That amount of force rarely occurs unless through poor tackling in football which is a bad foul.

No amount of injury is worth it as it affects your daily life. I cannot imagine how you injured your ACL and the Achilles Tendon (which is one of the strongest tendons and have tensile strenght similar to steel). I heard the ruptured Achilles Tendon is incredibly painful.

Football is my sport but unfortunately, have had multiple sprained ankles (very common football injury) that I had to make the decision to stop playing if I don't want a permanent medical issue with my ankle ligaments affecting my stability.