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20 years ago it was rife and it still is today. The beard and tattoos are more recent. It's causing huge personality disorders as well. Years ago you'd have a laugh and a cracking night after a game.
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Drugs, rugby and a very Welsh problem: How steroids infected the game on 16:57 - Nov 4 with 2345 views
Drugs, rugby and a very Welsh problem: How steroids infected the game on 16:06 - Nov 4 by dickythorpe
20 years ago it was rife and it still is today. The beard and tattoos are more recent. It's causing huge personality disorders as well. Years ago you'd have a laugh and a cracking night after a game.
It has gone absolutely bonkers!.... it has jumped from a guy talking a single steroid dose (that was bad enough) to the taking/dosage (called stacking) of multiple different steroids. Many can remember decades back when the only people who took steroids tended to be from Gold's Gym U.S.A or way outside from backwater Wales.
Gone are the days of a drug free 'natural' having the sheer bottle, guts and natural aggression to walk into a squat rack to do a (5 set x 20-rep) free-weight 'widowmaker' routine.....Welcome to the age of the 'cocktail-hero' pumped full of synthetic testosterone fuelled aggression-rage and chemically enhanced '4-carbon-ringed' bravery.....Without the gear Wine St, The Kingsway and Rugby clubs would witness many more an ineffectual, meek willed and psychologically utterly frail Joe Average
Oh, and then if that wasn't enough? There's Human Growth Hormone, Human Insulin, IGF1, SARMS, Muscle Site Enhancement Oils (Synthol, Esiclene) Amphetamines, Nubain etc.
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Argus!
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Drugs, rugby and a very Welsh problem: How steroids infected the game on 17:00 - Nov 4 with 2342 views
Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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Drugs, rugby and a very Welsh problem: How steroids infected the game on 06:14 - Nov 5 with 1965 views
Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
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Drugs, rugby and a very Welsh problem: How steroids infected the game on 10:52 - Nov 5 with 1868 views
Drugs, rugby and a very Welsh problem: How steroids infected the game on 10:52 - Nov 5 by Highjack
When men were men.
Deja Vu i.e. "When men were men".
Ex Neath skipper Kevin Phillips story in today's SWEP page heading in big black print..... "When men were men - certainly at The Gnoll..."
Kevin Phillips does seem rather critical of the modern weight training regime emphasising natural physical and mental toughness by comparison. He has developed my (ex-rugby player) late fathers aversion for 'the-modern-game' also.
Quote Kevin Phillips: (Heading) "Rugby today? It's not for him
“I don’t watch international matches now, it’s gone so boring and is all defence, defence, defence,” says Phillips. “It’s gasping for somebody to just pick up the ball and go. There’s plenty of room out there — there’s the same number of players as in my day. “People turn around and tell me there’s not enough room out there but players are over-coached.
Argus!
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Drugs, rugby and a very Welsh problem: How steroids infected the game on 13:18 - Nov 7 with 1636 views
Drugs, rugby and a very Welsh problem: How steroids infected the game on 13:07 - Nov 7 by Wingstandwood
Deja Vu i.e. "When men were men".
Ex Neath skipper Kevin Phillips story in today's SWEP page heading in big black print..... "When men were men - certainly at The Gnoll..."
Kevin Phillips does seem rather critical of the modern weight training regime emphasising natural physical and mental toughness by comparison. He has developed my (ex-rugby player) late fathers aversion for 'the-modern-game' also.
Quote Kevin Phillips: (Heading) "Rugby today? It's not for him
“I don’t watch international matches now, it’s gone so boring and is all defence, defence, defence,” says Phillips. “It’s gasping for somebody to just pick up the ball and go. There’s plenty of room out there — there’s the same number of players as in my day. “People turn around and tell me there’s not enough room out there but players are over-coached.
It’s absolutely turned into a percentages sport where getting a few inches over the gain line and recycling the ball with as little risk as possible until you can get a penalty is the primary goal. Skill is not needed, just power and pace. It’s remarkable how many knock ons there are in the modern game because players simply can’t catch the ball.
I used to love watching rugby but it’s now a complete and utter bore fest when you add the negative tactics, low level of ambition and skill to the constant stoppages every few seconds while someone checks the tv for an hour for a minor infringement. Then they take about ten minutes to set up a scrum and it’s “whoops lads you’re not binding correctly let’s set up the scrum again”.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Drugs, rugby and a very Welsh problem: How steroids infected the game on 13:18 - Nov 7 by Highjack
It’s absolutely turned into a percentages sport where getting a few inches over the gain line and recycling the ball with as little risk as possible until you can get a penalty is the primary goal. Skill is not needed, just power and pace. It’s remarkable how many knock ons there are in the modern game because players simply can’t catch the ball.
I used to love watching rugby but it’s now a complete and utter bore fest when you add the negative tactics, low level of ambition and skill to the constant stoppages every few seconds while someone checks the tv for an hour for a minor infringement. Then they take about ten minutes to set up a scrum and it’s “whoops lads you’re not binding correctly let’s set up the scrum again”.
Oh sooooo bang on!
My father used to go on about the "gain line", it was (during bygone rugby era) wording/terminology he never personally used, prioritised or deemed important... It just seemed to have crept in and become major issue stuff and even rugby commentary became fixated with it. Territory percentage does seem to come way before crossing the white try line.
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