Frankly, I've never studied medicine, but when this was discussed before, someone, more calm than the last few, posted that females who play football do wear chest protection...okay, but rugby is a very heavy contact sport, and I stand by what I said above.

And, as I say, it's not me deluding himself about how far backward my stance on this is - not long ago, females could not run a marathon, netball was invented as a NON contact sport for females, and they were competing at it and NOT football, let alone rugby.

I think that there are lots of things fine for both sexes, but the very new idea that women can do ANYTHING is wrong.

Melissa - if people stop questioning my repatriation ("why on EARTH did you come back" or "you must be mad", at interviews - obviously, WITHOUT me mentioning any political views), it will be a lot easier for me to get back to work; and, if and when that happens, and I see a female about to lift a 25kg bag of raw material, I will be as insistent as possible to lift it myself.

Tim, as I've told you before, for starters, I'm a positive English nationalist/republican, who hates imperialism - the BNP and UKIP are both pro-monarchy; and, as I said before, I'm not a member of any political party.