This new mini shin pad trend

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  1. North Yorks Red

    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    Anybody else just see it as an accident waiting to happen?
    OK maybe the pro’s might just get away with it but people are buying them for their kids and I can’t even imagine playing Sunday league in them when I think back to the scars and dents on the conventional ones that I used to wear!
     
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    They are thankfully being banned in a lot of junior football leagues. Kids wanting to copy their hero's.
     
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    It's utterly stupid and irresponsible.
    Even if players want to do it and the football authorities haven't got the balls to stop it you would expect clubs to ban it or insurance companies to step in
     
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    I find it unbelievable, the other thing that surprises me is that they play in boots with no foot protection at all, in these days of lightweight carbon fibre it seems ridiculous that there is no protection for toes and metatarsals.
     
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    My young un has them, hates wearing shin pads at all!
     
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    I remember the shin pads when I was lad. They were not that far removed from cricket pads :) well thick and bulky. Later they made some plastic ones very light and thin but really strong and effective.
     
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    Oli Mcburnie wears the smallest kids shin pads he can find to comply with the rules. Not summat I would have done in Sunday football.
     
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    Tbh Helen, I wouldn’t let my kids wear them, like I said I wore the regular ones and can’t say they ever affected my game adversley, what they did do is save me from at least one certain broken leg ( the tackle left a helluva dent and still gave me a dead leg) and a lot of damage. My mate didn’t wear them and ended up in hospital with a blood clot.
    It only takes one bad tackle and he will wish he did wear proper pads.
     
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    I had Kevin Keegan England ones :).
     
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    Hated shin pads when I played.
    Competitive football we were made to wear them but Sunday league I just wore ankle pads.
     
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    I'm sure you're right but teenagers always think they know best!
     
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    There is no fouling these days in the professional game. Kids should 100% wear them at all times
     
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    I’m not a fan of uncomfortable shin pads but I do wear them even for Walking football. I’ve seen too many nasty injuries. As for kids. I would never let my daughter have the plastic no protection fashion items parading as boots. Now she’s old enough to buy her own - and always goes for traditional black boots with a decent upper.
    A couple of weeks ago she got stamped on. Luckily she got away with bad bruising. Have to think that with the plastic lightweights she’d have broken her foot.
     
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    Do shin pads actually protect anything? That flimsy bit of plastic?

    Young un wears the cut off socks so he got a pair of them sent to him - he wears normal shin pads though
     
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    I’m fairly unconvinced they’re needed
     
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    A bit like car seat belts... not needed... until they are.
     
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    I don’t think that’s a great analogy in fairness
     
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    Laws of physics would suggest they should prevent injury by soaking up most of the impact rather than the bone. Work in a similar way to how a cycle helmet protects your head.
     
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    I’m still getting the last few seasons in, I’ve had the same shin pads for 15 years. Done me a right service.

    The younger lads now laugh at them, they were trendy back in the day but are compared to cricket pads now. :D

    I got a free pair of shin pads through with a purchase I made a few months back, I couldn’t believe what came. They were the same size as my thumb. Not a chance would I risk wearing them but all the youngens wear them now. No wonder the tacking is going out the game, none of them dare fly in.
     
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    mine did, they were what was the accepted normal length for years but they were plastic with a kind of compacted polystyren on the inside which made them quite thin and lightweight but very absorbent, they took a full on kick from alloy studs without breaking.
     
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