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Shaw cited for 'kneeing incident'
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<blockquote data-quote="bristol-iain" data-source="post: 270649"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (C A Iversen @ Jul 6 2009, 12:52 AM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=403944" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p></p><p>I simply had to back this up. Teh Mite is sooo soo right and I am totally sure of this. I have first hand experience. I got hit late after scoring a try two years ago and it ended my senior rugby playing days (play a lower grade now). I felt a combination of a crushing feeling in my back and intense pain along with having the wind knocked out of me all at once. I had to go to hospital and had loads of soft tissue damage to the area around two of my vertebrae. I also had two broken ribs and two bruised ones from the downward pressure on me. I was off work for three weeks and on desk only duties for a month after that.</p><p></p><p>All that came from a knee in the back coming down on top of me (with the weight of the player behind it).</p><p></p><p>I'm not a sook either, I've played through injuries right throughout my playing days other than that, to the point where I always wondered why other players took games off when I could take injuries well enough. It was at this point that I realised how lucky I was in only having minor injuries for so many years.</p><p></p><p>I think two weeks is alright if Du Preez is alright, otherwise it should've been longer.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p>Damn bad luck man, at least you're still playing. I got sat on by a 21 stone touring Canadian prop wrecked my knee ligaments.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="bristol-iain, post: 270649"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (C A Iversen @ Jul 6 2009, 12:52 AM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=403944']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> I simply had to back this up. Teh Mite is sooo soo right and I am totally sure of this. I have first hand experience. I got hit late after scoring a try two years ago and it ended my senior rugby playing days (play a lower grade now). I felt a combination of a crushing feeling in my back and intense pain along with having the wind knocked out of me all at once. I had to go to hospital and had loads of soft tissue damage to the area around two of my vertebrae. I also had two broken ribs and two bruised ones from the downward pressure on me. I was off work for three weeks and on desk only duties for a month after that. All that came from a knee in the back coming down on top of me (with the weight of the player behind it). I'm not a sook either, I've played through injuries right throughout my playing days other than that, to the point where I always wondered why other players took games off when I could take injuries well enough. It was at this point that I realised how lucky I was in only having minor injuries for so many years. I think two weeks is alright if Du Preez is alright, otherwise it should've been longer. [/b][/quote] Damn bad luck man, at least you're still playing. I got sat on by a 21 stone touring Canadian prop wrecked my knee ligaments. [/QUOTE]
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