Room 101: Jamie Broadley – Rotherham wing
This has to be my greatest annoyance. Ironically it seems to be that those who are most fervent about ‘Englishness’ have the poorest grasp of the language, which makes their points all the more nonsensical. Navigating social media without wanting to throw my phone at the wall is a daily struggle. If I see one more person describing themselves as being ‘on route’ somewhere I may have to leave the country…it’s EN! One individual, who knows who they are, recently spelt ‘calm’ with an ‘r’… Friendship over!
TRP verdict: Terrible, innit’? You’re in.
2. Healthcare
As my team-mates will attest to, I am something of a nause when it comes to my diet and lifestyle. I work for an NHS obesity service alongside rugby, do the nutrition for Titans and Sheffield Tigers and am about to qualify as a PT. It therefore frustrates me no end to witness the medicalised model of healthcare. Rather than tackling the root cause of people’s issues we give them a pill and send them on their way without considering any aspect of their lifestyle. The only winners are big pharmaceutical and food companies who seemingly pull all the strings. If we tackled basic dietary factors such as eating real food, with less carbs and more fat we could save the NHS billions, rather than closing hospitals and cutting jobs to save the money.
TRP verdict: Fat chance of us turning this one down.
3. ‘Edgy’ Kids
It seems that the done thing for evening entertainment nowadays is to part shave your head, dress as if you’ve been dragged through an Oxfam shop from the 70s, take enough Ketamine to wipe out the Grand National and then shuffle around a former pub masquerading as a ‘warehouse’. You can see these ‘Edgy’ creatures stumbling around town centres at 9am, walking like a drunk Thunderbird, wearing what appears to be your grandma’s curtains as a cape and enthusiastically chewing their own faces off. If this is what constitutes a night out nowadays no wonder the country is struggling! Bring back the glory days of cheesy RnB, baggy jeans and VKs!
TRP verdict: Hip hop your way into Room 10.
*This article was first published in The Rugby Paper on June 15.
