Originally posted by Moppie


I used to play feild hockey in school, as the goalie.
Most of my kit was made up of Ice Hockey gear, and I can honestly saw despite geting whacked by sticks I never once got hurt. But one season playing soccer! no way! and rugby is even worse.

field hockey is different than ice hockey...
and you can't compare a goalie to a soccer player, cause goalies never get hurt they have all that padding cause there are solid pucks being shot at them at a 100mph
you can compare a hockey goalie to a soccer goalie.... and soccer goalies get hurt pretty rarely me thinks

now you compare a football player or ice hockey player to a soccer player i think there's a big difference. Lets see i'm pretty sure a soccer player gets a penalty for body checking somebody, while thats totally legal in a hockey game, it's part of the game. Or bone crunching hits in football, don't see many of those in soccer

i guess it all comes down to opinion though.....

Oh my...:eek::huh: