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<blockquote data-quote="Zootalaws" data-source="post: 828216" data-attributes="member: 61187"><p>Probably because there are plenty of opportunities for people, kids and adults, to play in a game or series that IS just about taking part.</p><p></p><p>Every Saturday and Sunday morning, right across NZ there are friendly leagues played and enjoyed by those wanting a good social run-around, then there's a whole mess of touch, flag and other short forms of rugby that you and your kids can get involved in for fun.</p><p></p><p>Nearly every business I've ever worked in has social league rugby teams, mixed with mums and dads and teens all mixing it up together, for fun and inclusion. Mostly they are played in summer, thanks to our clement weather and long evenings. It rare that you pass a rugby field in NZ at any time of the year on any day of the week, that isn't being used by someone, for something. Can you say the same about U.K. sports fields? Kiwis play a lot of sport, it's in our nature. We still, for the main, allow our kids to run around unsupervised outside till it gets dark. Like it was when I was growing up in the UK in the early sixties. That being said, there's a lot of people that sit on the sofa and watch tv, just like every first-world country.</p><p></p><p>If you join a team that plays in a structured NZRFU competition, you are playing to win. Some take it less seriously than others.</p><p></p><p>O'Driscoll was on the end of a strong and illegal tackle. There was nothing premeditated about it. Get over it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zootalaws, post: 828216, member: 61187"] Probably because there are plenty of opportunities for people, kids and adults, to play in a game or series that IS just about taking part. Every Saturday and Sunday morning, right across NZ there are friendly leagues played and enjoyed by those wanting a good social run-around, then there's a whole mess of touch, flag and other short forms of rugby that you and your kids can get involved in for fun. Nearly every business I've ever worked in has social league rugby teams, mixed with mums and dads and teens all mixing it up together, for fun and inclusion. Mostly they are played in summer, thanks to our clement weather and long evenings. It rare that you pass a rugby field in NZ at any time of the year on any day of the week, that isn't being used by someone, for something. Can you say the same about U.K. sports fields? Kiwis play a lot of sport, it's in our nature. We still, for the main, allow our kids to run around unsupervised outside till it gets dark. Like it was when I was growing up in the UK in the early sixties. That being said, there's a lot of people that sit on the sofa and watch tv, just like every first-world country. If you join a team that plays in a structured NZRFU competition, you are playing to win. Some take it less seriously than others. O'Driscoll was on the end of a strong and illegal tackle. There was nothing premeditated about it. Get over it. [/QUOTE]
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