{"id":4369,"date":"2006-10-03T17:33:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T17:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:58:07","slug":"is_rugby_footba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4369","title":{"rendered":"Is rugby football too rough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an article from <em>The New Zealand Herald<\/em> about a concern in the world-wide rugby community &#8211; the seriousness and high number of injuries among professional players. The players are bigger, faster, and stronger, with high velocity collisions in tackle and ball-winning situations (and only very light pads for the shoulders). It&#8217;s fantastic to watch, but taking a high toll on players. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/section\/story.cfm?c_id=4&amp;objectid=10404096\">Is rugby becoming a brutal game? &#8211; 03 Oct 2006 &#8211; Sport<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>More than 2,000 injuries were recorded by Premiership clubs over the two seasons between 2002 and 2004; or, to put it another way, 92 injuries per team per campaign. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, there were 263 injuries affecting players on England business &#8211; the Test side, the second-stringA side, the Under-21s and the seven-a-side team &#8211; causing a total of 5,161 days of absence. <\/p>\n<p>On average, one in four players from each club was under treatment, or undergoing rehabilitation, every day of every week during the course of the study; indeed, each player spent 19 per cent of the calendar year injured. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a player on international duty was shown to have a 29 per cent chance of picking up a knock sufficiently serious to incapacitate him for a fortnight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an article from The New Zealand Herald about a concern in the world-wide rugby community &#8211; the seriousness and high number of injuries among professional players. The players are bigger, faster, and stronger, with high velocity collisions in tackle and ball-winning situations (and only very light pads for the shoulders). It&#8217;s fantastic to watch, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14037,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/14037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}