It's very hard to stretch a hamstring properly before a game.
it's one of the more tricky stretches. Also, most people who think they know how to stretch properly have no idea, so speak to a professional trainer about your warm-up.

And I can either offer you the one I'm currently waiting to be rebuilt from, which was a hockey stick to the face last year that cost me four teeth, a shattered maxilla, a shattered palette and four operations out of ten complete, I'm just waiting for a bone graft...

or

Coming off my bike on the dual slalom course at Malverns about ten years ago without body armour and landing on a broken beer bottle. Which hurt exactly as much as it sounds like it would, and nearly cut my kneecap clean off.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:53, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Yay more face hitting stories!!
....I mean.... poor baby you ok now? there there
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:55, Reply)

haha, no. not at all
they are going to bone graft me without general anasthetic. I am reliable informed it's the most painful operation it's possible to have (well, level with bone marrow transplant). I am so looking forward to that right now.

Also, having bits of your jaw pulled out through holes in your gums with only local isn't the most fun I've had with my clothes on.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 12:04, Reply)

Why no anasthetic?
Is it because in Scotland they are MACHO and 'ARD and don't belive in sissy southern pain relief?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 12:16, Reply)

I have no fucking idea.
With the original stuff it was because there wasn't time for it to take effect, they had to do stuff immediately. I think with the bone graft it's to do with where they do the operation, as in whether the hospital has an A&E or not.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 12:22, Reply)