Don’t mess with your noggin
Today saw a perfect example why we don’t dick about with head injuries in rugby.
A fairly innocuous head to grass bounce, a little dazed, back on their feet “I’m fine go the calls from player, team mates and coaches” all full of ego (in the men’s game at least) and they crack on. Except today was a ladies game, the physio was straight on, accepted what I’d seen and player didn’t protest much and went off – the correct outcome.
20 minutes later, match now over, she got up from the subs bench to walk back to the clubhouse, 5 minutes after that she was unconscious on the pitch and fitting with an ambulance en route, a very serious, and scary incident – now just imagine if she’d played on and took another knock?
Kids, Ladies, Adults – doesn’t matter, if you suspect anything then get them off, go through the RTP, and watch for symptoms.
PS: This post is in the present tense but have delayed posting it until I’ve heard back from the team in question to be sure on the outcome, which am glad to announce was an overnight stay and she was back home by Monday 👍
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Can’t beat an hour up the A1 and back to find an empty car park and that the game you volunteered to ref was cancelled 😞
Nigel Owens On What Referees Are Set To Clamp Down On For The Six Nations
Hmm, cracking down on things, like;
We will be stronger on crooked feeds at the scrum…
Pretty sure the rest of us in grass roots land do that every weekend, how about;
If someone charges into a ruck, leading with the shoulder and strikes the head it is pretty much always a red card…
Yup, that one’s in the laws of the game too. The other points have merit, but just goes to prove there’s still a secret law book for the elite game that differs from the one I’m given!
Nigel Owens On What Referees Are Set To Clamp Down On For The Six Nations:
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Nothing quite like 6 hours of staring at a remote console log to really rot the brain 🤯
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Looking forward to today’s refereeing appointment, higher level than I normally get on a Saturday, and a few other unique pressures too! All good for the experience though 🏉
Gone nuts? >> Nutella ‘riots’ spread across French supermarkets
I know the kids love it, but face it it’s basically brown, flavoured vegetable oil, always thought the French had better culinary tastes than this, filing under WTF!
Nutella ‘riots’ spread across French supermarkets – BBC News:
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Bria 3 (SIP Client) appears to be working under High Sierra even though ancient, any great reason to upgrade, or a better alternative? #tia
Camels banned from Saudi beauty contest over Botox – BBC News
Every day the world get’s a little bit weirder, but I think this takes the biscuit!
Twelve prized camels have been disqualified from a beauty contest in Saudi Arabia after their owners tried to tweak their good looks with Botox.
Camels banned from Saudi beauty contest over Botox – BBC News:
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Trying to wean myself from the ‘more screens is better’ mentality to single one in the name of productivity. As a dev, constantly debugging it’s tough 🤯
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Spent the morning running around in shorts outside with the U11s, now when am home indoors am cold ?!? 🤔❄️