I played, I picked up shoulder, knee, head, jaw, rib and finger injuries. I stopped playing when it interfered with my work. You know the score and you make a judgement call.

you got the chance to make the call though. I have had other injuries caused by RL but the one that made the decision for me was done by foul play. Would love to have played on but didn't get the chance.

Using 132 minutes of fiction to justify your stance.

Priceless

Yep, we can moan some more about the ref as well if you like...

The point is, other people are taking the decision out of other peoples hands as to when they give up the game. Anybody should be able to pack in when they choose, not when some cheap shot merchant wants to shake his cock. I can't even manage a slow jog any more after 8 knee ops due a cheap shot. I can't even have a gentle kick about with my son just because somebody wanted to be the man.

I thought you were on a higher intellect Mr. Hawking ??? Leave us with lower IQs to converse by ourselves we can't keep up with you.

On some days I am actually in pain putting my feckin socks on. If that would have been a cumulative effect of knocks from playing I would have no problems with it, it would have been my call. But as Red Chemic says, someone (who Cas till I die seems to admire as some kind of enforcer) decided to be a pr1ck and that was that for me.

Point being, when you decided to play RL did you think that the sport had no cheap shot merchants ??? I'm not trying to be derogatory btw I'm just asking ....

Seems you may be right as your reply doesn't make sense in relation to my retort

Touché

Where did I say that ??? In fact a few posts back didn't I say that w@nkers like that exist in every aspect of life ??? I thought someone of high intellect such as yourself would have picked up on that .... Or maybe you were twisting words again.

So what you are say is,

It's a man's game played by men. Expect that you may get injuries by the fact that it is such a physical game, if you choose to play it, and you should also expect that bell ends will attempt to create injuries to your body, through foul play that will last till the end of your time.

I think I understand you now. You will be/will have been one of those type of players. Am I right?

I am not twisting your words I am interpreting your refusal to accept foul play as acceptance that it should be allowed to happen (which you have done since this thread started). Therefore you must admire the type of player that commits foul play (as per your lack of condemnation for the Samoan players and their first half thuggery).

No word twisting there, just an understanding of your views on this.

if I am wrong prove it to me, condemn the foul play from the Samoans in the first half rather than saying that it was fine because the receiving players may have themselves done something similar in the past (which you did say about Bosc).

No my point is......

I don't want to see players sent off unless clear cut... deal with them afterwards

If you play RL you know the consequence, your opening yourself up to cheap shots and head high tackles same as whatever you decide in life has a consequence

I am in no way saying cheap shots are right or good just that they are part of the game and always will be, if you don't like it don't play

All simple enough and dumbed down so those of us less intellectual than you can understand.

You were doing so well then until the last line. I remember earlier in this thread you picked me up for a personal attack.

You seriously believe that nothing should be done until after a match? What happens if someone stamps on another players face? On report?

What about Morley hitting the Aussie in the head in the Ashes series a few years back, send him off or on report?

Foul play should be dealt with at the time. If you transgress it should be dealt with then. If Bosc and his number seven were walking wounded they are out of the game. Without half backs who directs the team around the pitch? I once witnessed a thug in the under 17's in Hull actually, as third man in an already completed tackle lead with the elbow into the face of the tackled player. The tackled player did not get up, the coward did, smirking about his "hit". Should he have been put on report or dismissed from the field of play? BTW, I informed the referee at half time as I have never witnessed such an act of thuggery on a rugby field but the ref was powerless to act as he had missed the incident.

Foul play has to be dealt with at the time, the deterrent of 10 minutes or a red card should be enforced, otherwise what is the point of them?

If that was the case, nobody would play any type of contact sport - you are trying to over simplify things to suit your agenda.

I don't mind a slap across the chops when you're facing the defence (I've given them out when opposing teams are getting on top as well as taking them), a good bellringer or the hands in the face so much. It's the hits when you are in no place to defend yourself that have no excuses in any sport.