Preconceptions

tomED

Can I ask why was this thread was moved?

This thread is more about people's thoughts on stereotypin of rugby players and different classes of society.

The mention of Rugby doesn't mean that this is about sport - It's not about sport at all.......

Just my opinion anyway.............

Dave

I have to say I'm with tomED here. The topic has nothing to do with the sport, more to do with societies perception. If every topic was handled this literally then they'd be hardly any threads on after hours.

Doc

This is probably the worst place for this tread to be moved to as no one but rugby enthusiasts will look in here.

Trojan

Sorry Shane, but the Rugby board is an inappropriate place for this thread - it's not discussing the sport, but society. I personally think AH is the correct place for this.

Cheers,
Al.

Trojan

My opinion? I'm a rugby player who played down the country originally. I'm now back in Dublin, and have recently started playing again.

I think that particularly in Dublin there's a negative image associated with guys who play rugby here. And it's not necessarily untrue either - there are guys out there like Ross O'Carol-Kelly (surprised noone mentioned him yet). I find that disturbing, and don't like to be associated with that aspect of rugby.

Al.

Amz

If you're talking about preconceptions about Rugby players I've recently started playing rugby and when you tell people (mainly girls) their initial reaction is "Oh my god I never thought you'd play rugby" this then moves to a sort of admiration "I'd love to play it but I'd be too scared" and then onto the whole I wonder if she's gay thing as lots of people have this stereotypical vision of the butch dyke, rugby playing, beer swilling, man hating player.

I dunno how guys feel about women rugby players (most seem to find it laughable...) *shrug*

I don't care what people think really I enjoy it and it's keeping me fit.

Macseamusa

i went to a rugby school, and i played rugby for a while, but i hated it( playing that is, i dont mind watching it). I found that most of them were all ' yeah my daddy bought me a new merc, only a one litre engine tho, lets get pissed and fight and smash somthing with our heads' I thought that they might change over the years but they didnt. There were only about 3 of them(60 ish) that werent like that. i'd call them jocks, but i wudnt call the 3, jocks cos they werent ...well, jocks. there are probably a lot of ppl like that but are just hard to pick out from the rest of the jocks. I have no problem with women playing rugby, fair play to u amz and to any other women who play rugby. are there many female teams?

Emboss

I'm sure something simillar has been mentioned all ready, I can't see what a sport has to do with ones personality, I do joke about rugby players being all the things said on the thread as much as someone would joke about me being from Tallaght.

Arseholes are everywhere it doesn't matter what school you go to what college you go to where you work or what sport you play Arseholes are everywhere.

maybe private/rugy schools have slightly more? maybe they're brought up differently? money changes _everyone_ imo and alot of kids that go to these schools their parents have vast amounts of it some are just normal joe's

all this leads to different lifestyles, ways of thinking and different ways of behaving.
they're just different types of people but you get this everywhere

When I was alot younger I worked in the terenure rugby school as a barman....

I was a bit shell shocked to be fair at some of the attitudes of people who came in some were really f*cking obnoxious players and fans.

But I don't think it had anything to do with Rugby. Just born arseholes.

Some were very pleasant nice genuine people.

Agent Smith

Originally posted by SheroN
It's only in dublin where rugby has the ****head element attached to it. "down the country" it's just like any other sport.

it's true

it's an great sport to watch, but the girl in my year (6th john scottus school) are totally obsessed with the rugger bugger's and that what pissed me off about it...



(agent smith needs loving too!)

TheSonOfBattles

Originally posted by Emboss
Arseholes are everywhere it doesn't matter what school you go to what college you go to where you work or what sport you play Arseholes are everywhere.

Everyone's an arsehole in someone's eyes.

blondie83

Originally posted by agent smith
it's true

it's an great sport to watch, but the girl in my year (6th john scottus school) are totally obsessed with the rugger bugger's and that what pissed me off about it...



(agent smith needs loving too!)

Smith I went to Teresians, and I can tell you the girls there weren't into the whole rugger bugger thing, they were more into guys that made them laugh. So get on down there!:D