Anyone noticed how Sinny (and I think a couple of other players) wear a neoprene 'bicep pad' on their upper arms.

It is not part of any padded undersuit or the thing that Schoey used to wear to protect his biscuit -shoulders after the dislocation injuries.

Can someone shed some light on it for me exactly what they're for or what protection they offer ?

It's to make their arms look bigger.

Bicep protection

They just look cool.

Saw Bang in a pair last week in town. Think he started the craze.

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They were armbands. He was on his way from swimming.

I give it less than that! haha, it's ok I have two more!

Ahh!

Disregard my last post then.

Sorry guys.

At the risk of sounding serious and therefore boring, allow me.

Quite alot of players wear them these days perhaps not in SL but across the amateur game. You don't tend to think you need them until you catch a shoulder or knee on the bicep. A dead bicep feels like a dead leag but about twice as bad IMO, and can probably keep you out for a couple of weeks if you catch one badly enough. I'm guessing Sinny (and Sean Long) have caught one before, and decided that padding would be a good idea.

stiff armers tend to destroy your arms too.

I caught an innocuous shoulder to my bicep towards the end of our uni season, which required constant ice etc just to give me a chance to play the next week. I couldn't straighten my arm for two days, very strange but painful injury.

Ouch. It sounds it!

How long were you out?

It was finals week mate, didn't want to tell the coaches so battled through a wrestling session midweek and it came round fine for the game a week after it had occured.

Ouch.. doesn't sound too pretty.

Good to hear you battled through though!

2 & 1/2 hours and still going strong LS16

haha

Gutted.

I had a pic of Ronaldo with w@nker written underneath (I like to keep it simple, much like yourself

) and I got asked to remove it within half hour.

The user "Wicket" now has to work out how to re-instate his account when he no longer has access to it.

Idiot.

i like his avitar!!

I would always have my "tackling bruises" on the inside of my bicep muscles after every game. Seems a sensible place to put a pad.

it might be a superstition that he has

Quality avatar though if it was allowed!!

"I'd like to thank my coaches for helping me through, the physio, my parents and family, but most important, Jord for supplying me with h2o for the entire season whenever I needed it"