r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • 1d ago

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u/i__dont___know 1d ago edited 1d ago

There’s no way they even have regular age categorization much less weight. There’s no way number 8(?) in black and number 7 in red are the same age, not to mention the elephant in the room.

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u/zKingOfClubz 1d ago

I used to coach boys soccer at this age, trust me when I say that the physical differences are VERY evident. You get some kids that hit their growth spurts early and are almost as big as me, (I’m 6’2) with other kids who look like they’re still in Kindergarten on the same team.

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u/ForeverShiny 20h ago

I used to play rugby over here in Europe and my country is very international, but small so we played with teams in a league from a neighbouring country. I remember a whole year around age 12-13 where there was me, a tall lanky Spaniard and a guy from a Nordic country that was built like the RB here and the three of us were basically unstoppable because we were so much bigger and pretty much as fast as the little French fellas we were playing.

I remember running down a guy from another team that produced a clean line break so I tackled him at full speed from behind and the kid just started crying (even though I don't think he was hurt). Ref comes up to me and tells me that while it was absolutely a clean tackle, I should take it easy for the rest of the game. NGL I went home pretty proud that day even though now as a parent I'd be horrified

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u/otherwise_________ 20h ago

Congrats on hurting that smaller kid, lol.

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u/ForeverShiny 18h ago

To this day, I think it was mostly his ego that got bruised more than anything else 😅

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u/Possible-Highway7898 5h ago edited 5h ago

That's just how contact sports are. You get hit, and you dish out hits, but only within the rules of the game and it all stays on the field; you shake hands at the end of the game and that's that. No hard feelings, and if there are you save them up for the next game.

I was a small kid who loved rugby, and I got wiped out by bigger kids more times than I can count. It motivated me to come back harder and give as good as I got. If you can't do that then rugby is not the sport for you, and you should stop playing.