life is difficult, so making sports more difficult will be good training for life.

Why write a poem, when it is so much easier to write prose?
Why make a painting, when it is so much easier to take a photograph?
Why strive for scientific progress, when most of it will end up unseen/unused in some archive?

The truth is, if we would only do things that are the most efficient and logic, life would be even more boring than it is right now (in case you haven't noticed yet, it is). And Rugby, as I was once told, is an art form, designed to generate the utmost creativity in a human, by facing him with impossible obstacles/rules to conquer. So the very reason this game makes sense, is that it does not make sense at all, which is surely more than I can claim for my reply.
( BringYourOwnParachute Meet me here on, Sat 21 Apr 2012, 16:56, 1 reply)

I fell asleep during the only game of rugby I've ever tried to watch.
They need to add some pyrotechnics or something before it might be considered interesting. (And I am fully aware of how boring life is, I'm getting towards the end of 3 months off sick from my PhD and going mad with boredom!)

Besides, I was good at everything else at school so I basically didn't try at sport because it was pointless - my brain was going to get me through life. So in terms of making it difficult to train you for life, it didn't really work!
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Sat 21 Apr 2012, 17:30, closed)