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Gaston, LE (2018) The Quad-Lemma: How the Rugby Players Association Benevolent Fund was Establish to Address the Welfare needs in the Professional Format of Rugby Union. Sport in Society, 22 (3). pp. 462-475. ISSN 1743-0437
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Abstract
This article looks at the evolution of retirement preparation for male professional rugby union athletes in the English Premiership. Rugby union became a professional sport in 1995 allowing rugby to become a stand-alone career. This alteration in employment structure resulted in stronger athletes, thus resulting in an increase of injury making a career in sports more uncertain. In an effort to address the growing concern of injury-induced retirement, the Rugby Players’ Association’s created the Benevolent Fund 1 in 2001. The Foundation was to provide assistance to players during times of injury and provide educational opportunities to assist in career transition. This article highlights how the transition to a professional game created the ‘Quad-Lemma’ of rugby injury and how the Rugby Players Association was created to address the welfare concerns of the new professional format of rugby union.
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| Additional Information: | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Sport in Society on 12/10/2018, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17430437.2018.1504770 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Rugby; Retirement; Injury; RFU; Social Sciences; Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism; Sociology; Social Sciences - Other Topics; CAREER TERMINATION; SPORT; RETIREMENT; INJURIES; EVOLUTION; PHYSIQUE; 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences; 1504 Commercial Services; 1608 Sociology; Sport, Leisure & Tourism |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business H Social Sciences > HF Commerce G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV561 Sports |
| Divisions: | Business & Management (from Sep 19) |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2022 10:55 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2022 11:14 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1080/17430437.2018.1504770 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/17114 |
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