Love of Rugby Jumpers - Unhealthy Fetish or Acceptable Manifestation of Fandom?

toomevara

My long suffering rugby-widow lady friend has just spent the morning laughing at/berating me for my collection of rugby shirts after I foolishly branded her shoe collection 'Imelda-Marcos' like... She calls it an unhealthy and idiotic fetish/waste of cash....and left me shame faced when she calculated roughly, but accurately that i the last 3 years I've spent about 1,500+ quid (english) on rugby clobber...am I mad,sad and alone in this strange perversion or are there more of you out there....??

Just looked through me shirts quickly and I've got the following...

Union

Munster '08,'06,'00 and old school stylee
Ireland...4 variants (3 canterbury and one nike)
Kukri Israeli rugby shirt ( a long story)
London Irish (2: Canterbury '06 and Rugbytech '08 home shirts
Argentina home shirt (swapped in drunken pub melee with similarly portly and equally drunken Argie in paris RWC 07)

League

Puma GB rugby League Jumper
2008 State of Origin NSW
Leeds Rhinos, Home and Away, '06 '07 '08 plus classic old stylee jumper
South Sydney Rabbitohs '07,'08
NZ kiwis 07 frontline test series jumper
Salford City Reds '06

Oh christ tell me I'm not sad and alone in this addiction!!!!

Junior

You are on your own here dude

1 Match Fit Irish Jersey
1 08 Munster Jersey
1 Grey Canterbury Jersey (In Flannerys Jeep since last year, still waiting for it to be signed)
1 NTL Lions Jersey
1 Munster Training Top
1 Munster Hoodie
1 Munster Wind Breaker


Think I'd better stop now ..

figs86

5 varying ireland jerseys
3 leinster jerseys
one munster
one connacht
2 london irish
france from a while ago
fiji sevens jersey
usa rugby jersey
2 lions jerseys
stade francais jersey
- thats all off the top of my head, doesnt include various rugby hoodies, tracksuits, training tops

and
this doesnt include the at least 10-12 jerseys i collected from playing for club and school

Sherifu

Think I have an Ireland one somewhere...

toomevara

figs86 wrote: »

5 varying ireland jerseys
3 leinster jerseys
one munster
one connacht
2 london irish
france from a while ago
fiji sevens jersey
usa rugby jersey
2 lions jerseys
stade francais jersey
- thats all off the top of my head, doesnt include various rugby hoodies, tracksuits, training tops

and
this doesnt include the at least 10-12 jerseys i collected from playing for club and school

A fellow sufferer, praise the lord!!! Will show this to 'her indoors'...

Ginger

Emmm what I have

1 Munster old jersey (BOI Sponsor and has the three crowns on it from around 2002)
1 Munster jersey with Toyota sponser from 2006
1 Fiji test jersey
2 HK 7s jersey
1 Springboks test jersey
1 Stavanger rugby jersey
1 Norwegian rugby jersey
1 Australia rugby jersey
3 Irish jerseys
2 NZ Jerseys
1 Wasps jersey
1 London Irish jersey
1 Bah bahs jersey

There are a few others somewhere else... Not so much a collection but just happen to get them over the last 10 or so years

Downtime

5 Ireland jerseys - (Irish P, Red training, Permanent TSB, O2, Blue Training)
3 Leinster jerseys
2 Munster jerseys
2 Heineken Referee Jerseys
1 Six Nations Jerseys
1 Edinburgh jersey
1 Waratahs
1 ACT Brumbies
4 Lions jerseys - 2005, 2001, 1997, 1993
1 Argentina Jersey
1 Warriors jersey
1 Israel jersey
1 Springbok Jersey
1 All Blacks Jersey
1 Young Munster jersey
1 Wasps Jersey
1 France Jersey
1 Newcastle Jersey (Ross Nesdales)
1 Scarlets Jersey
1 Australia Training Jersey

and a few others I cant think of, not to mention polos, tshirts, tops etc

Stealdo

toomevara wrote: »

A fellow sufferer, praise the lord!!! Will show this to 'her indoors'...

That'll work Toomevara - hey look I'm not a freak - I found someone on the internet that's the same as me....!

Can't go with you here - one Ireland and one Leinster in circulation at any one time. Replaced only when they need to be, not when new ones are issued.

Steffano2002

I have 7 France jerseys and 5 Toulouse jerseys. Used to wear rugby jerseys every single day of the week. Then I met my GF who hated them so I now I never wear them (unless Toulouse or France are playing of course!).

toomevara

Stealdo wrote: »

That'll work Toomevara - hey look I'm not a freak - I found someone on the internet that's the same as me....!

lol, what was I thinking!!! ...there goes the relationship

remus808

06' Ireland
07' Ireland RWC
07' Japan RWC
07-08' Leinster
07-08' London Irish


Only getting started....

remus808

Steffano2002 wrote: »

I have 7 France jerseys and 5 Toulouse jerseys. Used to wear rugby jerseys every single day of the week. Then I met my GF who hated them so I now I never wear them (unless Toulouse or France are playing of course!).

WHIPPED!!!!

Grow a pair!

chris85

3 Ireland jerseys (two permanent TSB in navy and green, O2)
2 Leinster (home and away)
1 Munster jersey (old BOI one)
1 MILK brumbies jersey
1 Wanderers jersey
1 old france jersey
1 Galweigens jersey
1 Lions supporters jersey
1 canterbury Canada jersey


probably have more hidden away i think. wear the leinster jerseys the most.

mikedragon32

Pfffft. Rugby Shirts do NOT equal wimmins' shoes.

My list:

5 Ireland
2 Lions
3 London Irish (1 Kooga, 1 Canterbury, 1 Rugbytech)
5 Leinster
1 France
1 Canada
1 Queensland
1 Stade Francais

Not to mention my own clubs jerseys, various polo shirts, t-shirts etc that I've picked up along the way too!

valleyoftheunos

I have to say that I have major issues with wearing jerseys (from any sport) as a fashion item, they should only be worn either when playing or watching sport.

With that in mind I have a couple of ireland shirts, '06 Leinster and a Tigers trainning Shirt.

Diamondmaker

I reckon unhealthy fetsih !

lazy mans wardobe !

toomevara

Diamondmaker wrote: »

lazy mans wardobe !

Guilty milord!

valleyoftheunos

Diamondmaker wrote: »

lazy mans wardobe !

yeah my Ireland jersey gets the occasional outing on a sunday afternoon when its all I can manage to pull on.

Skinfull

1 Irish jersey
4 leinster Jerseys (dating back to Esat Digifone days!)
to many to count leinster tees
1 Tonga Jersey
1 Munster
1 Scotland
2 Aus
1 South Africa
2 All Blacks
1 Connaught
1 Ulster
3 London Irish
2 Lions
2 World Cup Irish
...eh I think thats it.


A tonne of money but a tonne of memories too!

valleyoftheunos

Without wanting to get into rivalries I'm surprised by howmany posters have jerseys form two or more Irish provinces, I couldn't bring myself to wear another Irish Teams jersey.

razorblunt

What I have at the moment:

London Irish Kooga (Home and Away)
Munster Adidas (All Navy)
Munster Jacket + Hoody
Canterbury Jacket
Canterbury Pink Polo
Canterbury Pink Old Style Rugby Jersey
Newcastle Falcons Kooga (Home)
Ireland WC 2007 (Home)
Lions 2005 (Red)
Scotland U-21 (Home) long story

Bagged up and gave to charity:
Munster Home and two training jerseys Canterbury
Lions 2001 Home
Scotland Home and Away
Ireland Canterbury Home
Toulouse white and black.

toomevara

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

Without wanting to get into rivalries I'm surprised by howmany posters have jerseys form two or more Irish provinces, I couldn't bring myself to wear another Irish Teams jersey.

I'd wear Connacht, went to uni in Galway, and without excessively patronising any Connacht fans out there, I reckon all Irish fans should adopt and support Connacht as much as possible (obviously not in games against their own provinces, but defo in challenge cup and Magners v scots and welsh outfits)...The Connacht shirt can also double neatly for an Irish international one....

valleyoftheunos

toomevara wrote: »

I'd wear Connacht, went to uni in Galway, and without excessively patronising any Connacht fans out there, I reckon all Irish fans should adopt and support Connacht as much as possible (obviously not in games against their own provinces, but defo in challenge cup and Magners v scots and welsh outfits)...The Connacht shirt can also double neatly for an Irish international one....

An excellent reason to wear a connacht jersey.

toomevara

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

An excellent reason to wear a connacht jersey.

Is that remark dripping with irony or not? sometimes one just can't tell on here...but used to watch them play as often as possible, so have developed a wee bit of a soft spot for the connacht boys...

valleyoftheunos

toomevara wrote: »

Is that remark dripping with irony or not? sometimes one just can't tell on here...but used to watch them play as often as possible, so have developed a wee bit of a soft spot for the connacht boys...

No no! meant with all sincerity!:)

Steffano2002

karmabass wrote: »

WHIPPED!!!!

Grow a pair!

Whipped is right! She has me doing the dishes and all now! Soon I'll have to shower every day if I'm not careful!

omb0wyn5ehpij9

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

Without wanting to get into rivalries I'm surprised by howmany posters have jerseys form two or more Irish provinces, I couldn't bring myself to wear another Irish Teams jersey.

I'm very suprised by it aswell!