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Am I the only one who doesn't like Rugby & Football?

  • 10-06-2006 1:26pm
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    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    It seems the whole country is football and rugby Mad. I really can't stand it. I have played both in my younger years but nowadays I really get annoyed by being surrounded by fever pitch practially non stop. Not many of my mates are big into socccar, but they all like to know whats going on and will watch a match it it's on. Many of them however are rugby freaks and pretty much plan their lives around it. Even the girls in the group have got well into it and sometimes talk about it between themselves, which is quite unusual.

    Seriously, I have tried many times but just cannot enjoy either. I haev sat down with the intention of watching a whole match but I just get completely bored and have to go do somehting else. Even the sound of a screaming crowd gets under my skin. I'd rather leave the room when a match is on than try to ingore it. It annoyes me how fanatical people get about it. I used to support Manchester United when I was in Primary School, so I suppose I'd kind of like to see when win, but really the only thing I get pleasure out of is seeing teams like Liverpool and Arsenal loose, and watch the reactions of the distraught fans who had previously been all loud and lairy about how sure they were their team would win. Sounds eveil but its true.

    Don't get me wrong I don't hate sport, there are plenty of other sports I enjoy but the 2 most popular I just do not understand. I could sit and watch a whole day of snooker, tennis, motorsport, but just not rugby or football. It would be fine if there was 2 main groups, those who do and those who don't, but often it feel like I'm the only one who doens't have even some interest. In times like now when the world cup is on, you meet so many people who try to start a conversation with you about football, but when they realise you have no interest, it seems like they have nothing else to talk about. Pretty sad.

    Does anyone else feel like this too? Am I the only one who looks forward to the End of the Football and Rugby Word Cup?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 804 ✭✭✭BMH


    Don't like football, rugby isn't bad but I'm not the kind of person to be insulting my lovely tv whenever the other team score. But hey, whenever there's a match on, it means my brothers aren't on the computer.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Its not like I go parading in the faces of the loosers, I just like to be smug in my own enjoyment


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,805 ✭✭✭Setun


    Yeah I find football a bit boring, having said that I love watching the snooker. I don't mind rugby but I'd prefer to be doing something else most of the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Whatever about rugby, that Germany game yesterday reminded me (like I needed reminding...) why soccer is the greatest sport.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I would seek help OP, obviously something wrong. Football ftw! ¬.¬


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭The Raspberrier


    I'm much the same way. I know a few people who have no idea of whats going on in soccor, Gaelic or Rugby, so its not that unusual, OP. For the life of me, I can't understand Rangers and Celtic and the passions aroused in this country by them. I personnally think those fans should be neutered.:

    Im not anti-sport, for I do watch the odd football or rugby game but Ive never been an enthusiastic follower of either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    I don't really follow football, but I do watch an interesting match when it's on. Like the world cup... Lots of brilliant teams to watch :) I find it alot better than say the premiership, tbh. I tend to get quite into the games if they're particularly good :D I watched Germany and Costa Rica yesterday, and was well into it (although I was drinking at the same time, so that always plays a role ;)).

    Rugby, I don't follow either, but similarly with football, if there's a good match on, I'll leave it on, or else seek it out if it's not already on. I don't understand it as much as football, cos I've never actually played a rugby match myself, but I'm catchin on ;) It's a great sport, very rough and exciting, and unlike football, the teams don't be kicking it around in their own box, playing down the clock. It seems to be constantly charging up to the opponent's area. I'll usually watch Ireland if they're playing, or some Irish team (was watching the Leinster and Munster matches recently, for example). Or if I knew that New Zealand were going to be playing, I'd probably take a look at that.
    I actually went to see my first rugby match a few weeks ago -- Monkstown and someone else. It was deadly :D Much more interesting to watch than alot of the football matches I've been to see.

    So there :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭X-SL


    Hopefully the rugby craze will die down soon. Soccer is good though imo


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    X-SL wrote:
    Hopefully the rugby craze will die down soon. Soccer is good though imo

    Why do you say hopefully? Are the rubgy fans affecting you in some way? :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭the Shades


    Can't see what you could find boring about 20 grown men running up and down a field chasing a ball...

    I've triend hard many times to foster some kinf o interest in both sports and it's never happened, they seem like a complete waste of time to me, I could be of doing far more productive things and usually do. So they don't actually bug me I just do somehting else. try having sex the next time a match is on, you'll probably find you don't even care about the result.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    the Shades wrote:
    try having sex the next time a match is on, you'll probably find you don't even care about the result.
    Yeah you're right, once the football is on and Pigheads making the love, he couldn't give a toss if the sticky stuff comes out or not. COME ON IRELAND!


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Agreed. When I was a kid I played football but I was a goalie (a pretty good one at that actually). When I started secondary school I played rugby for 2 years - I had no choice. I'm pretty small so was never very good, but I did give it my best and was a pretty vicious scrum half for a while. However the one thing I never unbderstood was how rugby players seem mnore intersted in smahing into eachother that actually getting the ball over the line of the oposition. I don't understadn why they choose to run towards the large group of men waiting to smash your face in, as opposed to running through the gaps and possiuble get a break and score a try. I just don't understadnt he mentality.

    Boxing is a great sport. No stipid balls involved. Just one man aginst the other Primal animal fighting at its most pure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭the Shades


    ummmm... there's something very homoerotic about that post.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    End of discussion.

    Zascar is obviously bitter that he wasn't picked as goalkeeper for the final of the schools U17 final.

    "You're too small and thats the fcuking end of it Zascar, now cut them fcuking oranges pipsqueak" screamed the coach
    "I hate you and I hate soccer and rugby too,waaahhhh, do you want the oranges cut in halves or quarters?" wailed Zascar
    End of discussion. NEXT


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭Stompbox


    Love the rugby and can stand soccer when playing it but it is the most boring sport to watch.God,watching the backs play possession and players acting as if they've been shot after being hit by a gust of air.Fuckin n00bs.Hate them sooo much!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    Sweet wrote:
    Love the rugby and can stand soccer when playing it but it is the most boring sport to watch.God,watching the backs play possession and players acting as if they've been shot after being hit by a gust of air.Fuckin n00bs.Hate them sooo much!

    Have to agree, when im watching english football and those girls take a dive and then cry like they have 3 broken legs :mad: , drives me up the wall. Thats not how soccer should be played! I am very glad they have stamped that out in the World Cup though, dont think i would watch if they hadn't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,480 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    i watch the big games (for both rugby and soccer), but i don't particularly support anyone. i just want to be entertained, which is the best way to enjoy it IMO.

    i do support teams in motorsport though, so i'm not entirely "faithless" as it were :D


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Pighead wrote:
    End of discussion.Zascar is obviously bitter that he wasn't picked as goalkeeper for the final of the schools U17 final.

    "You're too small and thats the fcuking end of it Zascar, now cut them fcuking oranges pipsqueak" screamed the coach
    "I hate you and I hate soccer and rugby too,waaahhhh, do you want the oranges cut in halves or quarters?" wailed Zascar
    End of discussion. NEXT

    Ha ha ha ha, pighead your probably right, I can't remeber it exactly but I've probably just shoved those memories to the darkest caverns of the abck of my mind...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    have no time for rugby... no time for the gaa either

    soccer is the biggest and best sport in the world :)


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Whoever put up that photo has to be highly diturbed in the head


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,963 ✭✭✭SpAcEd OuT


    Rugby is a lot more exciting to watch in my opnion, played with more heart and the players aren't complete wimps like in soccer where diving and acting up to the ref seem to be common place now.

    and besides, Ireland have a rugby team to be damn proud of

    edit ; that photo is sick, enjoy your banning you weirdo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭the Shades


    Jockneill wrote:
    True. Football isn't for everyone, namely gays and women.

    how wonderfully enlightened...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    Jockneill wrote:
    True. Football isn't for everyone, namely gays and women.

    You have a problem with gays? Its 2006 man, wake up!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    Jockneill wrote:
    I just happened to work in Topman for the last world cup. Nobody gave a **** about the football and didnt even know when Ireland were playing.

    Ban this idiot.


  • Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    I used to go to football matches and "support" a club when I was younger, mostly just because my dad was so into it, brought me to england a few times for games. He even played in the Neville Southall tesimonial in Goodison Park :)

    I'll watch a game if it's particularily good and I don't have anything specific to do, if it's an Ireland match I'll watch alright. Pub's really the best place to be for the atmosphere, kinda hard to get into it sitting at home watching the TV.

    But essentially I've minimal interest. I'm the only person I know who has never been to a concert though. I like the music, not the bands... if you get me.

    Edit: This is a rambling post if ever I saw one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    Zascar wrote:
    It seems the whole country is football and rugby Mad. I really can't stand it. I have played both in my younger years but nowadays I really get annoyed by being surrounded by fever pitch practially non stop. Not many of my mates are big into socccar, but they all like to know whats going on and will watch a match it it's on. Many of them however are rugby freaks and pretty much plan their lives around it. Even the girls in the group have got well into it and sometimes talk about it between themselves, which is quite unusual.

    Seriously, I have tried many times but just cannot enjoy either. I haev sat down with the intention of watching a whole match but I just get completely bored and have to go do somehting else. Even the sound of a screaming crowd gets under my skin. I'd rather leave the room when a match is on than try to ingore it. It annoyes me how fanatical people get about it. I used to support Manchester United when I was in Primary School, so I suppose I'd kind of like to see when win, but really the only thing I get pleasure out of is seeing teams like Liverpool and Arsenal loose, and watch the reactions of the distraught fans who had previously been all loud and lairy about how sure they were their team would win. Sounds eveil but its true.

    Don't get me wrong I don't hate sport, there are plenty of other sports I enjoy but the 2 most popular I just do not understand. I could sit and watch a whole day of snooker, tennis, motorsport, but just not rugby or football. It would be fine if there was 2 main groups, those who do and those who don't, but often it feel like I'm the only one who doens't have even some interest. In times like now when the world cup is on, you meet so many people who try to start a conversation with you about football, but when they realise you have no interest, it seems like they have nothing else to talk about. Pretty sad.

    Does anyone else feel like this too? Am I the only one who looks forward to the End of the Football and Rugby Word Cup?


    and?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    And what. Do you have a question?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Sorry Dave that was not aimed at yourself, it was for White WashMan


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Simply put, its basically 20 or so lads running around a field chasing a piece of leather trying to put the ball in a net:rolleyes: Thats the way I view football!
    Rugby is watchable if you are drunk or stoned.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    zero time for rugby.

    Went to Donnybrook once with some lads from work
    Stood on the sideline without a clue of what was going on.

    Still bought tickets for the Heineken Cup Final from ticketmaster.co.uk and made a few quid selling them on ebay.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    Plug wrote:
    Simply put, its basically 20 or so lads running around a field chasing a piece of leather trying to put the ball in a net:rolleyes: Thats the way I view football!
    Rugby is watchable if you are drunk or stoned.

    Watch this and then tell me that :p :

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1280973368188066181&q=ronaldhino

    That is not any old "chasing"!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Sorry but he's still kicking a piece of leather around a field in front of 80000 people who also get enjoyment from this lame sport:rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Plug wrote:
    Simply put, its basically 20 or so lads running around a field chasing a piece of leather trying to put the ball in a net:rolleyes: Thats the way I view football!
    Rugby is watchable if you are drunk or stoned.
    god i hate this logic... it's "just" kicking a ball around... it's "just" throwing a ball through a hoop... it's "just" flicking pages and engaging with a story... it's "just" receiving musical information through your ears... it's "just" climbing a mountain.

    *JUST* what is YOUR hobby?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    DaveMcG wrote:
    *JUST* what is YOUR hobby?
    Driving RC model cars+planes and dolfin shooting:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    I can at least understand the interest in rugby, even if I wouldn't sit through a whole match myself, but the idea of watching 90 minutes of soccer has always bewildered me. It's about as exciting to watch as golf or darts.


    Also, soccer is for boys, rugby is for men.

    Ice hockey is for animals :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    You could have this thread about any sport.

    I'd happily watch tennis for hours but I don't know anyone else who would

    Roll on Wimbeldon!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Sico wrote:
    I can at least understand the interest in rugby, even if I wouldn't sit through a whole match myself, but the idea of watching 90 minutes of soccer has always bewildered me. It's about as exciting to watch as golf or darts.


    Also, soccer is for boys, rugby is for men.

    Ice hockey is for animals :p
    Agreed;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭snickerpuss


    I used to have no interest in sport whatsoever and just couldn't see the point but in the last few years i've gotten more into it and now i go to lots of leinster matches, follow the rugby and baseball and also have weird love for football that 'old me' would have been shocked about. I've been looking forward to the world cup cos i miss the premiership. I even went over to newcastle to watch a match.

    That said i would rather die than watch snooker/darts/golf. I don't know anything about GAA and i don't know where to start but i don't think i should start with another sport or i'll get no work at all done! :D

    Different sports for different people i guess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 539 ✭✭✭83ste


    Zascar wrote:
    In times like now when the world cup is on, you meet so many people who try to start a conversation with you about football, but when they realise you have no interest, it seems like they have nothing else to talk about. Pretty sad.

    Story of my life. If I had a euro for the amount of times I've had the following conversation, I'd have, well, a couple of euros:

    Random co-worker/classmate: Ya see the match last night?

    Me (deadpan, matter-of-fact tone): No.

    Them: Oh, eh, right. *looks away/down*

    I am a complete motorsport nut and damn proud of it. It's also a great talking point - I know it sounds crazy but I have had people transfixed for ages on several occasions with discussions of the details of Formula 1 and other motorsport which they may watch casually, but know nothing about.

    I don't see soccer or rugby as particularly boring per se, it's just boring to be into them. Everyone has their own half-baked, ill-informed opinion and I think 75% only keep up with what's happening for the sake of fitting in. My dad, for example, sometimes watches GAA matches because 'the guys in work will be talking about it on Monday'. As Zascar said, sad. I guess the whole thing grates with my 'if you're gonna do something, do it properly' approach to life.

    One other thing which mystifies me. I understand why people watch the English premiership, it's got the best players and quality of matches in the world but how and why exactly do Irish people form strong emotional attachments to clubs based in English cities fielding constantly-changing lineups of mainly European and African players?


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Totally agree Serrity. I really hate the way every bloody rugby and soccar fan just thinks that they know everything, often more so than the manager of the team.

    "Ah sure yer man is mad putting (player A) on the wing, (player B) is miles better... bla bla bla".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 262 ✭✭Vinnie69


    Having watch England play(?) yesterday, just reinforced my opinion of soccer that football as played today is just the same as pro. wrestling is i.e. phony and all an act of spoilt brats who are over-paid mammy's boys! I played both soccer and rugby in school. Although rugby is professional nowadays, it is still a "real" sport and if you can follow the action (ie know the rules) it is the better sport!!


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Yeah it is pathetic, I can't understand why they don't make it more of a punishable offence to fake an injury to try to get a yellow card etc


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    Zascar wrote:
    Yeah it is pathetic, I can't understand why they don't make it more of a punishable offence to fake an injury to try to get a yellow card etc

    I would remove them from the field and give them a 1month ban :mad: , it really is a joke. These guys have the skills to run around a player, take a shot and score. Why do they think they have to trip themselves in order to get a little closer to the net!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Big footy fan but I have hardly any interest in rugby (either as player or spectator).

    The last rugby game I watched was NZ at Lansdowne last year and I was actually cheering for them because I could tell they were class and we were an embarrasment. I never make a point to watch Ireland playing rugger and I didn't even know Ireland were playing New Zealand yesterday until the game was nearly over. By accident I tuned the game in on the car radio yesterday when it was 23-21 and decided to leave it on cos I knew we'd never beaten them so it'd be a bit of history.

    Well in that very instant NZ were awarded a peno to take the lead 24-23. Ireland collapsed straight after. I had to laugh. I must be a jinx on them. :D

    OP you mention snooker/tennis/motorsport so maybe it's just a case that you prefer individual sports over team sports? Nothing wrong with that anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    daveirl wrote:
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    Its just so bloody hard to follow the puck! G'wan the Oilers though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,682 ✭✭✭deisemum


    Each to their own. When I was younger I couldn't stand the amount of sport coverage on tv and didn't follow any sport but now that I know more about some of the different sports (as explained to me by hubby and sons) I actually enjoy watching it, especially rugby, soccer, hurling, snooker.

    Rugby is my favourite (like watching real men get stuck in especially the lovely Jerry Flannery) to watch except when the mum in me is watching my son is playing.


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