Taking a thought from another thread what is people who have played this great game worst thing about it?
Mine has to be that after a 26 man battle royale on the pitch when we ever got a penalty it was normally my job to take the first drive up after the tap with a run straight at murderous faces (I guess it had been decided that I could take the best battering).
It always had me thinking 'This is gunna hurt' and it always did

people trying to gouge my eyes out, that really pi@@ed me off.

You have gotten your own thread for that.

I once tried to go through a gap that i thought i had developed between Mark Hilton and Andy Farrell. That ended up hurting..!

im bored of that now... i used to play when i had curtains ( a terrible hair cut ) and i played second row at the time and the amount of times the opposition had my hair in 1 hand whilst they punched me with the other in the scrum... lets just say that hair cut didnt last long.

i usually did that first hit up too. agree its a pap job.

on the subject of worst thing about playin, its gotta be nasty injuries (chev)
i personally snapped my patella tendon and leg bent wrong way (literally) and my knee cap ended up on my thigh. that was cac!!!

Snapped my ACL in my right knee.

pretty rubbish that

I walked off the pitch and actually went training after the swelling had gone down all went well till I stopped running in a straight line






It was at that point that I went to HRI

Worst thing is trying to keep a straight face when a dopey props trying to run a ball in trying to look hard after your teams just won an all in brawl

North West Counties? always ended up an the bad end of a 60 point game against them

Trying to look hard was never in my head, More like keeping my head on my shoulders


Infact I always wanted us to be the penalised side

My Yorkshire versus Lancashire debut at Headingly. Lost 10-8. If only they had taken that dummy!

I was refering to Humberside, who usually got tonked.

Same age group as me i reckon, who else from hull was in the Yorkshire side if anyone, Matsell , Schultz, Dance, Carter ??

Schultzy, Gary Brown and one of the Ford twins. Cant remember if it was Chris or Nick. Both looked the same to me!

not a nice!! have just had an acl reconstruction after playing for a few years with my knee cap keep dislocating!! where n tear of the game!!

Would have to say Training first, i always hated training and would try whenever possible to slack off



Other than that i would say injuries only ever had one to speak off when i fractured my arm making a tackle. That was in the first half and it was an important cup game and i assumed it was just bruised so carried on playing till the 70th minute when it was just too much to hide anymore.

Afternoon at hospital to be told no break

But two weeks later started to get a calcium growth where the bone was knitting back together so had to have op to snap pin and plate it. A whole year of playing down the pan and it was never right after that went on to break it twice more before calling it a day.

Being on the wing and your team not shifting it wide. Halfbacks kicking on the second or third tackle. I was only 10 though

Broken leg and dislocated ankle came a little bit keen !!!!!

HEHEHEHE i remember those days, Dont think any team i played in started moving it out wide till we got to 13/14........ hmm maybe someone should mention to Agar he is coaching a pro side not under 10's

Same thing finished me mate when i was 22.

Worst thing :

Making the schoolboy Yorkshire squad, but not the team when three of your schoolmates did

Good afternoon Calders!

Had another go after year out and tore ankle ligaments 2nd game back, 2 weeks before golfing hol in algarve





End of a 22yr playing stint !! The best days though