Schools punch up

Snickers Man

Lovely picture in the Times yesterday showing the young lads from CUS and Wesley going at it hammer and tongs.

Bet the IRFU is thrilled at that.

Wonder why the picture isn't available on the TImes website. :-)

RuggieBear

Thought that was quite funny actually....but wonder why the Irish Times published it. There were always massive fights in the schools matches i played in...

Good old Methodist Wesley and Catholic University School....wonder what their respective religious orders thought of that carry-on:D

Royale with Cheese

Ah the Wes, I do miss it so. My experience of rugger boys was they walked around the school like they owned the place but they were absolute rubbish at rugby.

RuggieBear

Eric Miller came from Wesley didn't he?

Royale with Cheese

RuggieBear wrote:

Eric Miller came from Wesley didn't he?

And doesn't the entire school know about it? I'm not sure how the school are doing these days but back when I was in school they were never any good.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

I was at the match (ex cus pupil here ), and it started with two lads on the ground fighting after a ruck, everybody else was off with the play. They stopped throwing punches and were just holding each other down, they both let go of each other and went to stand up. Then the wesley player stood up, when the cus player started getting up, the wesley player punched him in the face when he wasnt expecting it and then pinned him down and continued punching him.......the cus winger saw this and went running over and knocked the wesley player off him and then all hell broke loose!

Nothing like a good fight in a schools match!

Snickers Man

Royale with Cheese wrote:

Ah the Wes, I do miss it so. My experience of rugger boys was they walked around the school like they owned the place but they were absolute rubbish at rugby.

I think CUS is something similar. Well, in the 'absolutely rubbish at rugby bit' anyway. Though to be fair they're both small schools and don't have a huge talent pool.

Mind you the CUS under 11s are pretty good. ;-)

Give 'em five years and they'll be taking on Rock in the final at Lansdowne. Maybe even the new one, if it's built by then.

Amz

Snickers Man wrote:

Mind you the CUS under 11s are pretty good. ;-)

Give 'em five years and they'll be taking on Rock in the final at Lansdowne. Maybe even the new one, if it's built by then.

That wouldn't be the team your son plays for would it?

legspin

Royale with Cheese wrote:

And doesn't the entire school know about it? I'm not sure how the school are doing these days but back when I was in school they were never any good.

I always got the impression Wes was more of a hockey school.

legspin

BrynW wrote:

Nothing like a good fight in a schools match!

Oh yes!!! And that applies equally to all codes:D

Snickers Man

Amz wrote:

That wouldn't be the team your son plays for would it?

;-)

Royale with Cheese

legspin wrote:

I always got the impression Wes was more of a hockey school.

Yeah that was the thing. Nothing to do with lack of talent, just the talented sports players played hockey. In my final year the senior hockey team came second in Europe (only lost the final on penalties as well). It was just funny to have a load of rugger boys who thought they were the cheese because they played rugby, even though they weren't very good. And a load of hockey guys who were extremely good but weren't allowed to think they were the cheese because as we all know, hockey isn't particularly cool.

GavMan

Miller came from the gick not wesley

RuggieBear

GavMan wrote:

Miller came from the gick not wesley

you are wrong i'm afraid. he was defo in wesley


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Miller_(rugby_player)

http://www.irishrugby.ie/playerpage/11003.html

RuggieBear

RuggieBear wrote:

you are wrong i'm afraid. he was defo in wesley


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Miller_(rugby_player)

http://www.irishrugby.ie/playerpage/11003.html

although his club is nominally terenure

Downtime

RuggieBear wrote:

although his club is nominally terenure

True - he was educated in Wesley and came to Terenure RFC from Leicester on a £40,000 stg transfer. All we have to show now is a British and Irish lions tracksuit in a frame !!!

Thats a bit unfair actually - he played a lot of games for us and was a joy to watch.

Downtime

I see he has just announced his retirement from rugby

daveirl

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Sangre

Typical stuck-up southside kids trying to kill eachother!

gsand

^^^^

Generalisation alert.

BlitzKrieg

meh...when i was in school we got into a fight with CUS during a match, no one took my bloody picture...

RuggieBear

lol

i played in a sheild game that had to be abandended due to a massive all-in fight erupting at a line out when i blew a kiss at the opposition prop...even people on the sideline got involved:D

youcancallmeal

So anyone found the picture online?

BlitzKrieg

RuggieBear wrote:

lol

i played in a sheild game that had to be abandended due to a massive all-in fight erupting at a line out when i blew a kiss at the opposition prop...even people on the sideline got involved:D

a player on our team years ago tried the same thing, he was the hooker and made comments like "I love being between two big strong men' then blew a kiss to the other hooker.


all he got out of it was a kick to the balls.

Sangre

What kind of loser reacts to something like that?

RuggieBear

Sangre wrote:

What kind of loser reacts to something like that?

some 17 year old whose whole goal (at that stage in his life) is not to be, even remotely, considered gay.:D

Didn't matter as we were killing them on the scoreboard and kicked the ****e out of them when they kicked off

BlitzKrieg

actually in my story we were only 15/16 at the time...i dunno about ruggies.

Damn i loved being a prop...but was never commited enough for the proper teams, just loved to play rugby

(SIX NATIONS TOMARROW! its the only sporting event i ever follow)

mcerc

Agh yeah no suprises really, CUS are always getting involved in that kinda thing. its what a lot of the weaker sides do. Although wes are a weaker school, when i was younger they always well disciplined if a bit firery.

Jackz

Can you bring this up in 2 and a half years again and we will see how Snickers Man's son gets on.