Are you saying because I enjoy something I am incapable of understanding the wider implications??Roly wrote:I'd hardly expect someone who'd paid a great deal of money to go and watch something they personally think is worth it to suggest it was a bad thing.trendylfj wrote:This my 2nd Lion's tour to NZ and I am loving it the same as before. Yes there is an issue of not much rest or injury for the players involved, Yes it is a money raising enterprise, Yes the NZ kids are loving it for the 1st time in their young lives, Yes many of them will strive even more to be an AB, Yes the local economy flourishes for a short period of time and finally Yes the British Consulate uses it successfully to create more interest in British products and services at each venue. All of which goes to make this an experience which should not be closed down unless the players want it and I do not hear many of them turning down the opportunity to tour.
Now in Queenstown for 4 days rest!!!!
Or to appreciate the wider implications.
Indoctrination is the inculcation of rational or irrational ideas to the extent that a rational idea to the contrary is unacceptable to the person concerned some great learned thinker once said,
Of course there will be injuries but also players will learn from playing alongside other players who they do not come into contact with regularly and enhance their development, experience and skills.
Perhaps oh great and learned one you could explain your evidential source for some of your statements such as: a player's development could (and often is) put back by 'up to 8 months' after a Lions tour or are they just your "picked out of the air statistics" Which players are you thinking about????
I can think of several players who have been enhanced their careers, skill levels and experience by their participation and I am sure that you can quote some who have had their careers put back because of injury but doesn't that apply to every competition they play in. Our own Martin Corry would be a prime example.
As for the money - no it hasn't cost me a great deal of money as I have organised and booked everything myself and it has only cost me slightly more than 2 x 14 day holidays and 1 x 7 day holiday if taken as 1 x 5 week holiday I am now on. I normally take those holidays each year which I will now not be taking this year. I accept that many people cannot take so many holidays each year as I do and would say that it is expensive - it is called planning (over a year) and choices. My 5 weeks in NZ has cost me less than £4000 - money I would have spent on my normal 3 holidays.
