School students were tackling sheep and rams during a rugby training camp

[leagueiscrap]

FARMING and animal welfare groups have slammed a Sydney school after vision emerged of students tackling and wrestling sheep and rams during a rugby training camp.
The ABC obtained videos showing first and second XV players from Sydney’s prestigious King’s School in Parramatta chasing rams in a farm paddock and dragging them into designated squares before flipping them over.
The videos were reportedly posted on a Facebook page by teacher and coach James Hilgendorf and ex-professional Hugh Perrett, but were taken down when the ABC contacted the school on Wednesday.

RSPCA chief executive Steve Coleman was disgusted by what he saw.
“Innocent animals are potentially being harmed, if not injured. You’ve got young impressionable teenage boys who seemingly are under the direction of an adult who saw fit to film it. It’s subsequently been posted,” Coleman told the ABC.
“To me that must smack of a level of acceptability about what was happening on that particular day, and from an RSPCA perspective, it’s completely, completely unnecessary, unreasonable and how anyone could justify that kind of behaviour is beyond me.”
President of the NSW Farmers’ Association Derek Schoen said farmers would have watched the vision “with horror”.
“This is unacceptable animal husbandry practice. You’d never treat your stock like that and I would say most concerned farmers would view that with a bit of horror,” Mr Schoen said.
“It’s distressing to the animals. It will make future husbandry practices more difficult with the animals — they’ll remember what has happened in those yards.
“To have rams running around with a whole lot of school kids I think is just plain stupid.”
Understandably, viewers who saw the footage on ABC on Thursday night were outraged.

Despite this response, the school’s headmaster Dr Tim Hawkes said he had no problem with the practice.
“A strength and team-building exercise devised by the farmer involved the boys having to undertake a task not dissimilar to that undertaken by shearers,” Hawkes said in a statement to the ABC.
“The task was supervised closely by the farmer who gave instructions to the boys as to how this task should be done.
“The two rugby coaches involved were assured by the farmer beforehand that the activity was safe and all the more so because he would be supervising it carefully.
“No animals were injured in the exercise. Neither were any boys.”
The RSPCA is investigating the incident.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-lif ... c24e80274a

[leagueiscrap]

is every one involved in rugby seriously just fucked in the head & suffer a large dose of little man syndrome

[AFLcrap1]

Lol
It's not RL

[King-Eliagh]

A story on private school Union toffs. Ummm > last I looked there's no Union fans on this forum...who are you aimin this at lic?

I think he's been having a few of these ones again

[Mal]

Leagueyboy is just a brainless dill. If brains were dynamite he wouldn't have enough to part his hair!!! LOLOLOLOL

[AFLcrap1]

Yep
He's just not bright at all
But that's common knowledge .

[Xman]

KE and Mal are doing their best to compete, especially this morning

[King-Eliagh]

Xmans been getting the snot beaten out of him. Especially this morning.

[ParraEelsNRL]

First Quokkas and now Sheep and Rams, damn those Union fellas seem to be making quite a list of small fury or large wooly animals they've seriously attacked lately. Pearce was funny as hell and did nothing to the dog at all and was made a scape goat for Tennis being in the shit that week (wink wink) yet no one says much at all about the Union boys kicking endangered Quokkas and being cruel to our wooly friends who made this country off of their literal back, shame Rugby Union shame.

[ParraEelsNRL]

And Pearce pretending to do the horizontal dance with the pooch showed no actions where the pooch was in danger besides being dropped, sat on, tripped over or accidental having his balls tickled whilst being picked up or placed down.

Good boy Pearce good boy.

Now these Union lads are doing something completely different, they are actually attacking these animals with all of their brute force to dominate acting as a so called simulation for a game which imo is stupid anyways, how about a broken leg for a sheep or ram whilst they were fucking about huh? Animal has to get put down blah blah blah.

If you wanna tackle Sheep, Goats, Rams, Bulls, Cows, or Poddy Calves, join the fucking rodeo, not a Rugby Union school or club.

And WTF where the school thinking?

[AFLcrap1]

Yeh strange lot at time those yawnion boys


But back to this FAIL thread .

The last time a thread failed this badly was when COS tried to somehow link the GAY RUGBY WORLD CUP to RL .

Fail of epic proportions .
Just like this

[leagueiscrap]

Yeh strange lot at time those yawnion boys


But back to this FAIL thread .

The last time a thread failed this badly was when COS tried to somehow link the GAY RUGBY WORLD CUP to RL .

Fail of epic proportions .
Just like this

WTF are you on bout with gay rugby WC

league and union is both classed as rugby
both sports supporter base is filled with flogs who are filled men with little man syndrome

[AFLcrap1]

It's a fail because RU is a different sport to RL

What has some private toffs attacking sheep got to do with RL?

[Swans4ever]

Oh well at least they weren't foundling the sheep a la Reynolds of penetrating them a la Hopoate. Hahaha!

[ParraEelsNRL]

What hoppa done you do on a nightly basis, and who is and what did Reynolds do?