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Rugby
Oct 3, 2011 21:22:47 GMT
Post by amberaleman on Oct 3, 2011 21:22:47 GMT
Obviously topical with the shindig down under. I've never quite understood the appeal of egg-chasing. Admittedly I've never been to a live game, but from what little I've seen on TV it's vastly inferior to association football as a spectator sport. Too untidy to have much aesthetic appeal, it seems to be more about strength than skill, flowing moves break down far too often, and the scoring system was surely designed by someone with a mission to confuse. If football is the beautiful game, then rugby is the ugly game. I've also met diehard rugby league fans who can't stand union, and union fans who are are very sniffy about league - despite the two codes not exactly being miles apart. This doesn't say much for the judgment of the rugger crowd, but may say a lot about its division along archaic class lines. I'm sure others will disagree.
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Rugby
Oct 4, 2011 11:21:52 GMT
Post by bh on Oct 4, 2011 11:21:52 GMT
I went to see the erstwhile London Broncos (Now Harlequins Rugby League I think) while they played at Charlton Athletics stadium, one of the kids got free tickets so off we went. It was quite an interesting evening but may have been improved if I knew what was going on!
I have often fancied going to Twickenham for a Rugby Union match, just to say I'd been there and done that but the opportunity has never presented itself. (The union season clashes with the football season, so my priority is obvious. I don't understand this form of the game either, although I was forced to play at school.
I have watch a little of the World Cup, the first matches were played while I was on holiday with my sons and they switched it on. I would not go out of my way to watch though.
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Rugby
Oct 4, 2011 11:50:19 GMT
Post by ambersalamander on Oct 4, 2011 11:50:19 GMT
BH, your post basically sums up my own feelings towards the game, although I do prefer Union. My paternal grandfather, born in Cardiff, was a huge Rugby Union fan, and although he was apparently indifferent towards Rugby League, he would invariably refer to football in scathing tones as "that other game" ;D Neither of his sons have inherited his passion for the game. From what I've heard of him, he and I would have got on like a house on fire with some rather intense debates! Sadly, however, he died a few years before I was born
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Rugby
Oct 5, 2011 10:13:17 GMT
Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Oct 5, 2011 10:13:17 GMT
Your Granddad would have liked our Welsh head games teacher. One of the legacies of my old high school being ex-grammar was that we always played rah-rah. Someone once had the temerity to ask one Friday morning if we could play football for a change. Teacher exploded. "Football? FOOOOOOTBALL??!!!! You dornt wanna play FOOTBALL! You wanna play RRRRRRAGBEEEE!!! You wanna play a MAN'S GAME!
I hated playing rugby union with a passion. I suffered a lot of homophobic bullying at school. Rugby union was just a double period of the kind of sh!t that was going on in the corridor between lessons and on the way home. The fact that i was/am straight only added to the sense of injustice.
Like tennis, i can enjoy listening to a rah-rah game on the radio, but when watching soon get fed up with the ball disappearing in either a crowd of players in the confusing melee that ensues whenever someone gets tackled, or simply disappearing into the crowd. Kick and clap is an apt description as unless there is a marked disparity in the playing strengths of the two teams, then most of the scoring plays appear to be penalty kicks given for any number of arcane, mystifying technical offences or dropped goals.
With 4 fewer players on the field and rules that encourage a faster, more run oriented game i much prefer League to union as a spectacle. Much as i love footy, i can think of any number of crap games where i've walked away feeling bored, swindled, etc but can't think offhand of a boring game of Rugby League i've been to.
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Rugby
Oct 6, 2011 12:59:52 GMT
Post by DazaB_WCFC on Oct 6, 2011 12:59:52 GMT
The fact that i was/am straight only added to the sense of injustice. You'll grow out of it ;D
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Rugby
Nov 22, 2011 21:44:47 GMT
Post by Col ISIHAC. on Nov 22, 2011 21:44:47 GMT
Union for me I think; I am a happy egg chaser; and living near Northampton - where the rugger buggers outnumber the Sixfields sufferers by a considerable margin on match-days; it's hard not to get caught up in it all.
There is a surprising grace to rugby - either code but with, ironically, the two extra per side, union maybe more so, when the ball is thrown around and moved quickly. Forward play, decent defence; having witnessed a first class game I can assure you that it has an intensity and passion which is missing at, ooh, say Old Traffers!
I am a convert. C'mon you Saints! :-)
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Rugby
Mar 4, 2012 20:58:19 GMT
Post by Jared on Mar 4, 2012 20:58:19 GMT
Rugby Union in England is dull, Welsh Rugby Union is slightly more exciting.
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