Quote Originally Posted by hopelesslyoptimistic View Post
A lot of pro rugby teams have already severely limited the amount of contact allowed outside of games for similar reasons included the Leicester Tigers whose training sessions historically weee the stuff of legend.
Tradition wise Brittany rugby union hardly gets a look in as its a football region despite the fact 'Bretons' have a reputation for being a tough race. The southern 'Basques' have hot blood but the 'Bretons' have hard heads along with a fierce historical independence mentality I'm told.


Our local gym has two rugby union players as training members, an Irish bloke called Darren O'Shea from nearby Vannes rugby union team training there & he is colossal in stature weighing about 130 kg/20 stone & 2.1 meters/7 foot in height - so I assume he's a defender of solid disposition because he's always on the heavy stack weights & only ever walks on the treadmill.


The other chap is Italian Ed Iachizi, also at Vannes & he's over 6ft 6 but not quite as heavy build wise - what effect that has on someone unfortunate enough to run into either one of them at full whack then God knows, cos that'll be some collision on contact for sure, let alone coming face to face with them in one of those heads down scrum-grappling play sets.

Don't think sprints will be high on their pitch trainings agenda for sure.