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Yes, look at the #8, her thigh. That looks like a wound to me.
I think she is #18 and she indeed has some kind of wound. I think she had in even before the game started as I do not remember seeing it happen during the match and early in the match it seemed she had some sort of bandage.
It does seem like a superficial wound, that may have opened up during the warm-up or something. When the pitch is a bit rough or sandy and you move/ drag alongside the pitch that can easily give that kind of abrasions. When the pitch became more dry towards spring I usually had it over my left shin after my first run, right shin after the second, left thigh after the third and right thigh after the fourth ;)

You start to notice it during the nights with bed linnen scrubbing it or when taking the pants off. Like a cyclist who slid over the tarmac.
 
These are fantastic. You can see the effort and the exertion on their faces. Their expressions tell me what Rugby is all about. It looks like a really hard game. I was told a long time ago that a good picture tells the story and these definitely do.
 
I just had a quick peek back at my photos and the blood on the #18 probably did happen during the match. This is from an earlier moment in the match and her right leg does not show blood (yet) :
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I think she is #18 and she indeed has some kind of wound. I think she had in even before the game started as I do not remember seeing it happen during the match and early in the match it seemed she had some sort of bandage.
# 18. I missed the 1.

It does seem like a superficial wound, that may have opened up during the warm-up or something. When the pitch is a bit rough or sandy and you move/ drag alongside the pitch that can easily give that kind of abrasions. When the pitch became more dry towards spring I usually had it over my left shin after my first run, right shin after the second, left thigh after the third and right thigh after the fourth ;)

You start to notice it during the nights with bed linnen scrubbing it or when taking the pants off. Like a cyclist who slid over the tarmac.
LOL You have to suffer for your sports! :D

I just had a quick peek back at my photos and the blood on the #18 probably did happen during the match. This is from an earlier moment in the match and her right leg does not show blood (yet) :
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Ah. But as you said it didn't look deep and was probably just an abrasion.
 
Great shots, Jan. As always lots to see and enjoy. I was wondering if that is frost on the field in this pic or just markings? Looks like frost. Sun doesn't seem to have reached that part of the field yet? I'm asking as I think frost would most likely cause abrasions when sliding into it where mere grass wouldn't?
 
Great shots, Jan. As always lots to see and enjoy. I was wondering if that is frost on the field in this pic or just markings? Looks like frost. Sun doesn't seem to have reached that part of the field yet? I'm asking as I think frost would most likely cause abrasions when sliding into it where mere grass wouldn't?
Thanks.

The white in that photo is indeed frost. It was a small part of the pitch that is in the shade a long part of the day, so the cold night still showed in the afternoon. You are correct that a frozen pitch should not be played on. Several matches were cancelled last weekend due to pitches being frozen. I sat in that half of the pitch part of the match, but the underground was not really hard. It was more the grasses that still showed some frost. I guess it was not cold enough for the frost to really enter the ground. Some dew on grasses was an easier target for the frost ;)
 
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