Irish players pushed to play injured

[beige]

40 per cent of Ireland's professional rugby players have felt pressurised into playing while injured according to a survey commissioned by the Irish Rugby Union Players Association (IRUPA).

In the independently conducted survey - in which 75 per cent of the 150 or so IRUPA members on international, provincial or development contracts responded -an alarmingly high number said they had been put under pressure to play while injured or concussed by coaching and medical staff.

The survey is sure to make waves in Ireland as it comes on the heals of revelations about playing while injured by former Leinster hookers John Fogarty and Bernard Jackman, who were both forced into retirement

Read more: http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,2...646877,00.html

[normie]

...it's only a flesh wound...

[zimeric]

Just use some of that magic spray, you,ll be right
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