What the fuck was the initiation. No surprise a posh nonce sport like cricket has dickheads running the club
Hockey was worse. The rugby lot think they were the edgiest, but they just came across as being still in the closet.
Did the freshers wear watersport backpacks used as portable latrines?
Did they have wine bottles duct-taped to their hands (and replaced, frequently) all night?
Did they have to sit in a circle playing drinking games with a bucket in the middle and you can’t leave the circle? *youcanguessehatthebucketwasfor*
The streaking?
Or have standards slipped?
The initiation for Rugby in USW was bad enougth…..
That’s a shame because they play first class cricket against professional counties.
Funnily enough, initiation events were the exact reason several of my mates wouldn’t join the rugby team in my first year of uni.
Most of them ended up joining the American football society instead, where the initiation was to queue, tell a couple of the senior lads their name and a story or joke, and if it wasn’t funny or interesting they had to down a pint. As one of my flatmates was joining, they did it in my flat as we had a common room. The senior lads made it very clear to us that they would turn up early the next day, clean everything, and that we could keep all of the left over alcohol.
Long story short, the kind of weird initiation events described in the article dissuade people from playing their preferred sport and gives members of the given society a pretty bad image. I get not all societies at all unis are like that, but it’s still freakishly common. I get the whole “back in the old day” thing, but there’s a certain point where these things do go from entertaining, to just straight up cruel and unfun.
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What the fuck was the initiation. No surprise a posh nonce sport like cricket has dickheads running the club
Hockey was worse. The rugby lot think they were the edgiest, but they just came across as being still in the closet.
Did the freshers wear watersport backpacks used as portable latrines?
Did they have wine bottles duct-taped to their hands (and replaced, frequently) all night?
Did they have to sit in a circle playing drinking games with a bucket in the middle and you can’t leave the circle? *youcanguessehatthebucketwasfor*
The streaking?
Or have standards slipped?
The initiation for Rugby in USW was bad enougth…..
That’s a shame because they play first class cricket against professional counties.
Funnily enough, initiation events were the exact reason several of my mates wouldn’t join the rugby team in my first year of uni.
Most of them ended up joining the American football society instead, where the initiation was to queue, tell a couple of the senior lads their name and a story or joke, and if it wasn’t funny or interesting they had to down a pint. As one of my flatmates was joining, they did it in my flat as we had a common room. The senior lads made it very clear to us that they would turn up early the next day, clean everything, and that we could keep all of the left over alcohol.
Long story short, the kind of weird initiation events described in the article dissuade people from playing their preferred sport and gives members of the given society a pretty bad image. I get not all societies at all unis are like that, but it’s still freakishly common. I get the whole “back in the old day” thing, but there’s a certain point where these things do go from entertaining, to just straight up cruel and unfun.
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