- Joined
- Wednesday August 26, 2009
- Location
- New Forest, England.
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Not bad for a team under pressure.
Not bad for a team under pressure.
Absolutely not. Rugby Union is played by real men, whereas Association Football/soccer is played by those who couldn't make it in Rugby Union. For your edification Dodgy there is also Rugby League, but I won't go there. There is even an American Rugby Union team, the Eagles, that plays (or at least tries to) in the international arena. Rugby Union is an international sport played in many countries (World Rugby comprises 117 members) from Japan to the Republic of Georgia; more than I can say for so called American football. In the Southern Hemisphere Rugby trumps all else; just go to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or Argentina if you want to see real passion for the sport.Hah, I learned yet another new 'All Things Limey' tidbit and this time it's something about sports.
So from what I understand, rugby is pretty much ignored and in the background when compared to kickball. Sounds like rugby is kinda like being the half witted relative kept in isolation somewhere like Prince Ruprecht was.
Know what? That's what kickball is like over here in Yankeetown. We blow our noses in it's general direction on the few occasions it's ever mentioned. Never anything in the newspapers.
Martin
'Couldn't make it into Rugby' so they chose to earn more and date supermodels hmmm. Oh and the supercars and mansions and.....[emoji14]Absolutely not. Rugby Union is played by real men, whereas Association Football/soccer is played by those who couldn't make it in Rugby Union. For your edification Dodgy there is also Rugby League, but I won't go there. There is even an American Rugby Union team, the Eagles, that plays (or at least tries to) in the international arena. Rugby Union is an international sport played in many countries (World Rugby comprises 117 members) from Japan to the Republic of Georgia; more than I can say for so called American football. In the Southern Hemisphere Rugby trumps all else; just go to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or Argentina if you want to see real passion for the sport.
'Couldn't make it into Rugby' so they chose to earn more and date supermodels hmmm. Oh and the supercars and mansions and.....[emoji14]
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My apologies; no offence intended, I was saying this tongue in cheek. I follow soccer in the UK, supporting Southampton Saints in public, because that's where the family's from, but supporting the Gunners in the closet. I grew up playing both soccer and rugby, but rugby is my first love having played it seriously in secondary school and university; alas, at 68 I've had to give up playing, but I love to watch it. Nevertheless, I really hope Leicester takes it all; a real 'rags to riches' story.I've played football my whole life and though I've hung up my playing boots I'm still involved with coaching at grassroots. I've not once met anyone who played football because they were no good at rugby. I do however know people who play rugby because they were sh1t at football...
My apologies; no offence intended.