To think that rugby players really show footballers up for the wimps that they are?

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Just saw on the news that a Welsh rugby player was knocked out cold during their game with England last night, despite most likely being concussed he got up and carried on. Earlier in the game another player broke his nose, was strapped up and just carried on. Meanwhile footballers roll around on the pitch in mock agony when they break a sodding finger nail!

I'm a life long football fan, but I'm becoming more and more disillusioned with the game if I'm honest. The vile insults hurled at each other by fans, the over dramatic displays of "agony" because the played want a penalty thrown in their way. It's pathetic.

Why isn't rugby more popular than football?

I think that the injuries suffered are often more life changing in football. A snapped tibia versus being knocked out... I know which one I'd take!!

YANBU - rugby is MUCH better than football!

I find the shouting and arguing with the ref appalling in football, you don't see that in rugby.

It's a mystery to me but that could be because rugby is number 1,2,3 and 4 in this house. Footballs a dirty word I have been slowly indoctrinated! Although that player shouldn't have played on with a head injury! DS plays rugby and you don't get all the nastiness that supposedly happens in kids football - there really is a strong emphasis on fair play and respect!

I think that the injuries suffered are often more life changing in football.

Seriously??

I remain startled that in 2015 there are still games so backward that it's considered a mark of toughness to play on with concussion.

The player in question gets a free pass - you don't think straight when you are concussed. His coach and team doctor should be fired and struck off respectively.

Pro cyclists show up everybody else as wimps.
Except the ultra-marathoners, I suppose.

A snapped tibia versus being knocked out... I know which one I'd take!!

Which is it - the fixable leg or the potential brain injury?

I think it's bloody stupid to get up and carry on playing if you have been knocked unconscious.
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Really Mouth? I think a serious head injury is far more likely to cause life changing injuries than a broken leg!

The playing on of the Welsh player is being investigated. It is against current practice to play on with concussion.

rugby is a contact sport - football not so much

so I guess it's like saying cheese makes a rubbish lamp shade ...

also the guy who was concussed - very controversial decision to play on - in other sports - such as boxing, he would not have been allowed to

dying of a brain bleed isn't hard - just sad

I think there are strict rules regarding concussion in rugby. There certainly are at the junior levels.

Rugby injuries at their worst tend to be catastrophic eg neck breaks. However generally they are at the more minor end of the scale. Footballers tend to snap their limbs in awful ways.

However I would say that the culture of feigning injury is exclusive to football. For example, the Barcelona team being trained on convincing falling aka diving.

I think that the injuries suffered are often more life changing in football.

What?!

But then i am probably biased, as my brother suffered at "catastrophic" injury playing rugby. Luckily they have a charity for this sort of thing, even as just a Sunday morning player. Financial support is excellent,but he'll never walk again.

Still loves the game though!

Doctor are we talking about North?

He seemed to hit the ground hard later on in the game as well, on top of the initial injury. Although he played on he didn't seem right from the initial injury onwards. I'm not surprised that his playing on is being investigated.

Yup. Didn't watch the game myself, but yes. They are indeed investigating the decision to let North play on.

I think they both have different skills and physical capacities & capabilities, so comparing them is goady and moot.

Very irresponsible.... Thought rugby was better than that

I love rugby but letting him play on was reckless and dangerous. I'm very pro bringing in rules that mean anyone sustaining a neck or head injury is removed from the game. Injuries in rugby can be life changing

Playing on despite injury is not unheard of in football either, in the World Cup there was a footballer cant remember which country who was very obviously concussed and confused after a head injury who came back on, I remember being astounded at the time that the team Doctor and referee had allowed it. I do like the respect rugby players have for the referees decision and the lack of arguing and appealing with the ref that goes on.

Rugby is better anyway.

Football is packed with overpaid arses most of the time.

I've just got home from a football match (premier league) where I watched several players roll around on the floor for 3+ mins, holding various body parts and seemingly in agony then get up and run off quite fit and well. It really does ruin the flow of the game and I suspect it is used as a way to break up play when the pressure is on.

yanbu real men play rugby

I don't think he should have been allowed to play on. Although I have to say I see many more injuries from rugby than football - apart from twisted ankles. It's the rolling on the floor that does me.

There's a fab picture of this giant player (I think a kiwi) being told off by a tiny ref and he's just stood there, head down, no argument. Shows the discipline. Much better than the idiot who threw a toddler tantrum for getting a red card for slapping a player in the African cup.