Banned from Rugby...

Whackerr

My original posting which was removed is included below. I've also included the opening paragraph in Trevor Brennan's column in todays Times.
I've been banned from posting to the rugby thread, probably because the truth hurts...


My original posting... The reason this Rugby team is so brutal is because it's the only "team" in the competition without a National Anthem and without a National Flag.

They are passionless and they deserve all they get.

SHAME on the irfu and you supporters for putting up with it. Pathetic !



Trevor Brennan writes in todays Irish Times...

"Setting the right mental mood, pressing the right mental buttons, can be critical. Singing Amhrán na bhFiann always fired me up. You take pride in your National Anthem. The French have La Marseillaise, the song which asks the soldiers to walk together to beat the enemy and the need for the blood of the enemy to fertilise their soil. In comparison Ireland's Call is weak and wouldn't even fire up Barnhall under 12s. If the Irish rugby team is such a unique political and historical entity, then the IRFU should insist on both songs being played."


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Amz

Ah cop on. Nobody on the rugby forum wants your rubbish, go set up your own forum and rant all you want there.

Stop wasting our bandwith with your crap.

Time Magazine

Well if Trevor Brennan thinks it, I'd say it has to be true.

seamus

I heard this bull**** raised by plenty of people, and if our national team needs a violent anthem to get them fired up, then they lack the skill to complete in a major competition.

It's a thinly veiled excuse to drag up some nationalist bigoted bull****, I suspect no-one on the Rugby forum wants to hear it.

leeroybrown

Fair play to the mods. The less of this pointless rubbish that we have to read the better.

Irish Wolf

Amz wrote:

Ah cop on. Nobody on the rugby forum wants your rubbish, go set up your own forum and rant all you want there.

Stop wasting our bandwith with your crap.

Exactly!

Bring on the cats..

dulpit

Plus, and i think this is the most relevant point, the Irish rugby team does NOT represent a nation, it represents the island of Ireland, which is made up of The Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland...

Good riddance from the rugby forum I say..

parsi

dulpit wrote:

Plus, and i think this is the most relevant point, the Irish rugby team does NOT represent a nation, it represents the island of Ireland, which is made up of The Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland...

Seeing as you want to be pedantic: the Island of Ireland consists of two countries - Ireland and Northern Ireland. See http://www.irlgov.ie/aboutireland/eng/irstate.asp

Now, back to the cats.

Terry

Trev rules.
He bought me a pint the last time I bumped into him.

/name drop.

Moriarty

Hagar

Why has he only one post including the one on this thread?
Odd unless all his other posts have been deleted or he's a re-reg.
He needs to learn to pick his fights.

Supercell

Only one cat?, more needed, I can't make sense of this tread without 'em.

copacetic

Hagar wrote:

Why has he only one post including the one on this thread?
Odd unless all his other posts have been deleted or he's a re-reg.
He needs to learn to pick his fights.

but he did re-reg nearly a year in advance, which is pretty good foresight, i'm impressed!

RuggieBear

who are you?

mikedragon32

OP, you're a troll. You were called quickly on the Rugby forum and your thread killed off.

If an established poster said it, maybe the thread would have survived, but you signed up to post flamebait.


More cat pics please...

Sparky

Must resist urge to post....

Damn it

Irish Wolf

mikedragon32 wrote:

OP, you're a troll. You were called quickly on the Rugby forum and your thread killed off.

Well done to Ruggie - he's playing a blinder this last week or so clamping down on this kind of crap..

mikedragon32 wrote:

If an established poster said it, maybe the thread would have survived

Oooo.. I wouldn't be too sure about that.. at least Ryle ain't commentating, so that's one less topic to worry the mods with..

mikedragon32 wrote:

More cat pics please...

YES!! Where's the "Iz in ur scrum, stealin ur ball"?

Beruthiel

Allez les vert!!!

Mr Magnolia

mikedragon32 wrote:

More cat pics please...

Certainly sir.

catho_monster

Mr Magnolia wrote:

Certainly sir.

BEST CAT PIC EVER!:D

RuggieBear

brilliant

cowzerp

Whackerr wrote:

My original posting... The reason this Rugby team is so brutal is because it's the only "team" in the competition without a National Anthem and without a National Flag.

They are passionless and they deserve all they get.

SHAME on the irfu and you supporters for putting up with it. Pathetic !

I agree with you, if its the irish national team it should use the irish anthem like we do in boxing, hockey, international rules football etc..He's entitled to his opinion if he wants wheter you's agree or disagree with him-people dont have to respond to the post if they dont like it.

Crash

sorry, fix that - "if its the republic of ireland national team it should use the republic of irish anthem


now, to cap this thread off:

youcancallmeal

Although despite pimp cat's ponderings I would have to agree cowzerp to some degree. Isnt the guy entitled to an opinion even if we do think its ridiculous?

RuggieBear

This has been posted upon heaps of times before...those threads always descend into a flamefests with sectarian bigotry to the fore.

if you wanna moan about the anthem issues go to humanities