To wonder who makes rugby players (lighthearted)

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And how much do they cost you in food while they grow into these incredible hulks?

None of the guys on the pitch in either of the 6 nations matches are small so who is making them and are you as parents also similarly sized?

I have a 16 yo prop. Eating machine!!!

Pasta and mince seem to be the main criteria in my house
and a LOT of chicken
thank goodness for reduced to sell fresh and a freezer

Try feeding a swimmer! I have both and the swimmer eats far more than the rugby player.

We were not especially big - I'm 5.5" and DH is 5.11"
Ds1 ate almost constantly and was a 6.1" scrum half

DH is 18 stone, big rugby style build & 6ft 2 with size 12 feet. When I had DS1 (9lb 3) I noticed he had massive feet!

DH is a rugby player, as was his dad, and grandad. So in my experience rugby players make rugby players!

Ds is 10 and plays for the local club. He eats loads! But that is the reason I make him do rugby rather than as a result of!

I stood next to the current England squad recently.
I'm 5"2, Felt like a fucking borrower

On the bright side I've always been down about my thick old Greek thighs but after seeing all the big thighs there I feel fine about mine

I have a 23 year old hooker for army. I feed several of the team regularly. They eat a whole joint each.
For four lads and us, Sunday lunch necessitates both ovens, 7.5kg potatoes, two huge pork joints, 12 stuffed apple cups, Yorkshire puddings, a dozen sausages, a giant tray of cauliflower cheese, assorted vegetables in large quantities. Then apple crumble and sticky toffee pudding with custard and ice cream.
Then cheese and biscuits.
They open the fridge and just eat the entire contents, fruit juice is drunk by the litre directly from the carton. Milk is drunk by the litre too. Their height is between 6’4 and 6’7

12 year old and 7 year old here both play rugby and eat like the proverbial horses. I spend a fortune on foods but they're lovely boys and rugby is a great sport for them to be involved in.

MumGoneMild 🤣 I was in a Reading hotel with a team & at 5ft9 I felt dwarfed.

What's a stuffed apple cup?

A few years ago, I lived in a block of flats and on the floor below, lived someone who played for England. His thighs were ginormous.

Also desperate for further details of these stuffed apple cups...

H hopes very much that we will make one! (I am pg). H is a number 6, though now retired, he used to eat about 3 x as much as me

So it seems they're born, eat you out of house and home then sort of emerge as fully fledged adult hulks who then continue to eat you out of house and home

And yes what on earth is an apple cup?

All the males in my family are props or second row. Tallest is 6’7”, and “wee” smallest is 6’2” and basically spherical. My son’s are heading the same way and they re still babbas.

We grow them with a recipe of Celtic genes, low centres of gravity and pie. I see average sized men and internally decide that they’re jump jockeys.

His thighs were ginormous.

Nom.

Yy rugby players thighs are a sight to behold!

I have a 12 year old rugby player and he eats for England.

My brother used to play a lot of rugby and he ate a lot of pasta and meat!
Mind you he was friends with the quinell brothers and they made him look small

I’ve got a 6’4 19 stone ex-prop husband who I can testify eats like a horse. He was the tallest and biggest in his year at school and I pity his poor parents and their food budget

I used to work with the sister of a player in the England team. Which was similarly huge but I could never get her to play on our women's team.
Size 12 feet aren't big. Most of the teens I know are size 11 or 12. My Dad has size 14 feet. That's big. I feel sorry for him as there are loads of shoes now but he struggled as a younger man to get nice shoes or more especially wellies.

We've made one! We both were rugby players and I'm sure DS will be too. He's not yet a year but eats as much as I do already and have inherited my thighs of steel and his Dad's huuuuuge shoulders. Everyone comments on how solid he is. I dread to think how much he'll eat when he's older.

Mine is 14, six foot and stocky. He eats a lot. But then his grandad was 6 foot 7 and most of us are tall so it's possible he still has some growing to do. He's spent all day watching 6 nations. He's had it marked on the calendar and everything.