Sports Psychology

Goodluck2me

I was just looking at the "worst tackles" thread and the aftermath of the Eduardo challenge there, and I just thought of this question.
If you seen one of your teammates and presumably best friend after breaking their leg badly, or as in the tackles thead the Ice Hockey game - where the teammates accidentally slashed his mates neck open - is it wise to continue matches, as players are bound to be affected by whats happened.
I for one, would find it most difficult to continue to play at the top of my game.

Guy:Incognito

Personally I've neer been remotely effected by that sort of thing. It might well be that I just dont get upset by others misfortune, I dunno.


My own injuries rarely stop me playing, never mind someone elses. My dad wouldnt let me continue playing in goal one time when I dislocated my finger and couldnt reset it (resulted in my finger being permenently fooked and unuseable) so we came to a compromise and I played on outfield.:)

I'm of the opinion that people are too affected by things nowadays. Any excuse is used to have a hug and cry.

MrJoeSoap

The show must go on. I'd see it as a motivational tool in most situations.

The big pools of blood in the hockey might make it harder though...

Chardee MacDennis

goodluck2me wrote: »

I was just looking at the "worst tackles" thread and the aftermath of the Eduardo challenge there, and I just thought of this question.
If you seen one of your teammates and presumably best friend after breaking their leg badly, or as in the tackles thead the Ice Hockey game - where the teammates accidentally slashed his mates neck open - is it wise to continue matches, as players are bound to be affected by whats happened.
I for one, would find it most difficult to continue to play at the top of my game.

i've seen two broken legs in one match, and countless others overs the years but when you're on the pitch it just doesn't come into your head that it will happen to you. also it's a risk of playing the game and you have to realise that every time you play.

Stekelly wrote: »

I'm of the opinion that people are too affected by things nowadays. Any excuse is used to have a hug and cry.

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Stop the game? No way.

In a game earlier this season we had a lad break a bone. There was no way we were stopping the game though.

Dcully

Looking at the injury videos on the net it all brings back memories of what happened to me.
Exact same compound break,bone out through my jeans etc,only difference is a forktruck tackled me lol.
I can lol at it now 5 years on but fcuk me it was a pure nightmare and pain i never thought humanly possible.
When i looked down i went into a state of total shock and couldnt believe what happened.

Personally if i saw it happen a team mate i couldnt play on at 100%.