Looks Like The Lentil Crunchers Have Infiltrated Surrey Rugby!

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2547076/How-youngsters-learn-life-dont-let-win-lose-games.html
Because life is really like that isn't it?

[woofgang]

but maybe they do want to play?

[emmie]

i am saying that as young as some seem there is still the competitiveness of boys, it's virtually programmed into their DNA, some may not like sports, i am sure that some boys and girls don't, but many obviously do, and if they enjoy it then it's game on.

[woofgang]

I think that at six years old, they aren't sensible enough to be allowed/encouraged to play contact sports and its up to the adults to foster the competitiveness without letting the dear little savages injure themselves or each other.

[emmie]

have you never been in a school playground, don't you remember the games, because i do, as young as 5/6, playing tag, British bulldog, and some very rough and tumble games.

[jake-the-peg]

//playing tag, British bulldog, and some very rough and tumble games//

Girl dies after British Bulldog
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24802172

Injury to spine after British bulldog
http://www.bmj.com/content/290/6485/1888

Any other things you'd like to bring back from the good old days Emmie? Consumption perhaps?

[emmie]

you are sometimes so off the mark it's a wonder you don't fall over.

[emmie]

the first one didn't die from the game, but she fell on a spike.
she was barged by a boy, but that didn't cause the death.

[emmie]

though this is not uptodate data, suggest that the figures for death from childhood illnesses like chickenpox should be more for concern

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1210300/Chickenpox-killed-son-How-little-boy-died-just-weeks-spots-appeared.html

[emmie]

having lost my grandfather and almost my mother to TB it wouldn't be something i would likely to want around, that is not to say that it's not making a resurgence in UK. Your analogy is plain daft.