Seafront Plodder Wrote:I have been waiting though for your derserved gloat on your stuffing of us in the Rugby League (sport for girls) World Cup, but I guess you've assumed that's too easy. 
52-4 suggests there's something seriously wrong with the England side, tis true, but I didn't see the game so I won't pass judgment. Until rugby unifies the two codes, I can't really take it too seriously I'm afraid. It's a bit like the (now) three major forms of cricket: will the real flavour of the sport please stand up!?
Speaking of such things, I had a rather eye-opening experience today which tempered my enthusiasm for team sport in general, or at least for what it has become... I watched my niece play softball - she's an excellent softballer and represents her state in U-17 and has national selection potential. Whilst watching the games I was quizzing some of the coaching staff and others about the team and was not a little horrified to discover that even at the tender age of 16 and 17 it is not at all unusual for the better players to have to undergo surgery for over-use injuries, especially of elbows and shoulders. And this is not even a sport that has a professional league in this country, nor is it going to be included at the next Olympics. Heaven knows what the kids in so-called
serious sports do to themselves.
I think it highly laudable that kids pursue sport to high levels, but something's wrong when our society is geared to pushing them to that degree.
Lord, it's like everyone's trying to be another Seafront Plodder or something.
No! No! November...
