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Joost van der Westhuizen

Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by megager, May 13, 2011.

  1. megager

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    That Guy from RTE has the same disease (cant think of his name) poor chap
     
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    Awful news is right...this guy was a cracking scrum half...big mother f**ker as well (for a scrum half)
     
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    @Prendy: thats him ya colm Murray, didnt RTE sack him or something for not being able to do a job properly and found out afterwards that he had it and had to rehire him
     
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    A couple of rugby players have been diagnosed with MND recently including Andre Venter, Jarrod Cunningham and now Joost. It is often called Lou Gehrig disease after the baseballer who's career ended with the onset of symptoms during a season. There was also a clamour when a number of italian footballers were struck with the illness including Gianluca Signorini. For some reason there is a belief sports people are susceptible.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article5114400.ece
     
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    Ever think its a coincidence that Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrigs disease?!

    [YOUTUBE]uDWngRtEmm0[/YOUTUBE]
     
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    I never heard that myself. I saw him on the Late Late a few months back and he never mentioned it.
     
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    I knew the dubs were playing up north tomorrow but didn't realise it was for this cause,I would've made a bigger effort to get there if I'd known.
     
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    Setanta are showing this game live now .
     
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    Anto got to meet Joost last Saturday in Dublin

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