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Your career will last seven to ten years. If you're lucky. There is a fair chance that you will struggle to adapt to the 'real world' once the boots are hung up and then there will quite possibly be physical repercussions too.
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Read More »Life as a professional rugby player may be an enviable one but, according to a survey released by the Irish Rugby Union Players Association (IRUPA), it is a path that comes with a price. The association quizzed 79 former Irish professional players with an age range between 24 and 49 on life after rugby and found that “31% claimed not to be in control of their lives” within two years of retirement. Of that number, less than a third were satisfied with their second careers — compared to 26% of the total who said they were — while almost a quarter of respondents claimed dissatisfaction with their current overall wellbeing. Simon Keogh approached the findings with a foot in both camps given his past life as a player with Leinster and Harlequins and his current role with the union. “I wasn’t overly surprised by the figures because you would have had some of the guys surveyed who had played some rugby before it went professional, who might have had secondary level qualifications but didn’t go on to do any third level. Those guys were less prepared for the real world and how to establish their own identity away from rugby. So, that’s what we are trying to do with ‘The Clubhouse’, is to provide services for these guys.” ‘The Clubhouse’ will see IRUPA services, which have been available to current players since 2008, extended to their former comrades — an estimated 500 of them — in order to facilitate the transition into the ‘real world’. The players’ body offers advice and courses through various colleges as well as assistance on areas including personal development, finance and investments, general wellbeing, profile and image and career development. Keogh also worked with other old hands — Shane Horgan, Jerry Flannery, Frankie Sheahan and Simon Best among them — with the group assisting heavily in the shaping of the alumni programme and how it is to be rolled out. The former scrum-half is a typical example of those who had to readjust once rugby was left behind. Though he qualified as a solicitor and kept his hand in with it throughout his career, he admits to struggling slightly when he quit sport in 2010.
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Read More »“Absolutely, I can say in all honesty that there was a definite sense of not knowing what you were about. You were going into a new environment with guys who were ten years younger than you and with a lot more office experience. In rugby you know your place so it is a strange place to be when that ends. We are trying to make that transition as easy as possible because there is no doubt but that loss of identity is the biggest thing when players enter the ‘real world’. IRUPA will turn their attention to the physical repercussions of life as a pro rugby player at a later date although this survey did find that 17% of the former players stated that they were “significantly less healthy” than they would like. A recent survey of 500 ex-NFL players by The Washington Post found that nine out of ten suffered from daily aches and pains with 90% of that number affirming that their physical difficulties were as a direct result of their playing careers. Concussion has already garnered significant attention on both sides of the Atlantic and the reality is that the growing physicality of rugby is just another reason for players to prepare diligently for the day it comes to an end. IRUPA’s finding that an average Irish career lasts just seven years is particularly eye-catching given the fact that the IRFU’s player management system places less of a strain on players here than is the case in other major countries. “That (seven-year figure) is relative as well because a number of those guys would have played maybe five years of their rugby before professionalism,” said Keogh. “If you get ten years out of professional rugby you are doing really well now.”
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