Why are rugby supporters so well behaved compared to football supporters?

sausage n buns

Whenever im out watching a game, including in that Australian place beside Cineworld with the guys and a rugby match is on, everybody is like so well behaved and quiet, whereas ive noticed that football supporters tend be so loud, rude and vulgar with their language. It is not a nice sight been in the vicinity of football supporters when they are watching their games.

Well ok right, I know maybe not all of them are like that, but football matches just seems to attract a lot of the wrong type of crowd comparing to rugby. What does everyone think?

minidazzler

They are in my balls, I've worked both Rugby and football matches, the biggest cnuts I come across are Rugby fans especially the "middle-class" arseholes with a sense of entitlement. "What do you mean this ticket isn't valid, it's a season ticket" "Yes sir, for last year, it won't work this year" "Well, that's simply not right, see it says season ticket" :rolleyes:

Ruu_Old

Haw, haw, haw noish thread there Oisin!

Revolution9

sausage n buns wrote: »

Whenever im out watching a game, including in that Australian place beside Cineworld with the guys and a rugby match is on, everybody is like so well behaved and quiet, whereas ive noticed that football supporters tend be so loud, rude and vulgar with their language. It is not a nice sight been in the vicinity of football supporters when they are watching their games.

Well ok right, I know maybe not all of them are like that, but football matches just seems to attract a lot of the wrong type of crowd comparing to rugby. What does everyone think?

The Woolshed.

Chucky the tree

minidazzler wrote: »

They are in my balls, I've worked both Rugby and football matches, the biggest cnuts I come across are Rugby fans especially the "middle-class" arseholes with a sense of entitlement. "What do you mean this ticket isn't valid, it's a season ticket" "Yes sir, for last year, it won't work this year" "Well, that's simply not right, see it says season ticket" :rolleyes:

So the biggest trouble you've had a rugby has been someone using an old season ticket? I can only imagine the trouble there would be at a Rovers/Bohs, Celtic Rangers or Liverpool/United match if there was no segregation.

El Inho

its all socio-economic! which is such a cop out answer.

basically :

"Rugby is a thug’s game played by gentlemen and football is a gentleman’s game played by thugs”

i remember hearing this when i was really young. its just for years the main group of rugby fans were economically better off...and, feel free to correct me btw, but soccer was so more popular because of its far wider reach...completely international and anyone could play...where as rugby clubs may have been more expensive to keep plebs out...pardon the term.

but this is all old school stuff that's not as predominant any more...but there is the hangover effect you see in the players and the fans.

Saila

soccer hooligans game played gentleman, rugby gentlemans game played by hooligans

zyxwvu

Rugby is a predominantly 'middle-class' sport. 'Middle class' people tend to have less vulgar mannerisms, and are less prone to scumbag behaviour than the 'working class', all other things being equal. And I say this as somebody who is 'working class'. But you know this already, don't you!!?

Brendog

Elementary my dear boy. We rugby supporters are a different breed to those brash, rough housing brutes.

They have Stephen Dillaine and Kuno Becker in "Goal!"

We have Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman in "Invictus"

WIN!

minidazzler

Chucky the tree wrote: »

So the biggest trouble you've had a rugby has been someone using an old season ticket? I can only imagine the trouble there would be at a Rovers/Bohs, Celtic Rangers or Liverpool/United match if there was no segregation.

No, that's not the biggest trouble by a long shot, it's just something I thought of off the bat. And it's the general sense of entitlement alot of them have, unlike most football supporters, who while generally chancers realise you have a job to do.

El Inho

Brendog wrote: »

Elementary my dear boy.

close the thread....theres your answer!

jive

sausage n buns wrote: »

Whenever im out watching a game, including in that Australian place beside Cineworld with the guys and a rugby match is on, everybody is like so well behaved and quiet, whereas ive noticed that football supporters tend be so loud, rude and vulgar with their language. It is not a nice sight been in the vicinity of football supporters when they are watching their games.

Well ok right, I know maybe not all of them are like that, but football matches just seems to attract a lot of the wrong type of crowd comparing to rugby. What does everyone think?

I'd say the atmosphere is electric

mikemac

Brendog wrote: »

Elementary my dear boy. We rugby supporters are a different breed to those brash, rough housing brutes.

The same class of people who kicked a young man to death outside the Burlington Hotel and got a ridiculously low sentence

From good families don't you know, wouldn't want to ruin their lives

edit, found the link, from UTV

Gardai in Dublin have launched an investigation after a man died following an incident outside a nightclub.
Police are understood to be investigating the possibility that the death was linked to a rugby rivalry between two schools in the area.

Eighteen year old Brian Murphy of Clonskeagh in Dublin died after he fell to the ground in an incident near Club Annabels at the Burlington Hotel at around 3.20am on Thursday.

The teenager was reportedly beaten by a gang of up to five men outside Annabel`s nightclub at the Burlington Hotel in Donnybrook.

He was brought to the nearby St Vincent’s hospital but died from injuries sustained in the attack at 5.00a.m.

zenno

sausage n buns wrote: »

Whenever im out watching a game, including in that Australian place beside Cineworld with the guys and a rugby match is on, everybody is like so well behaved and quiet, whereas ive noticed that football supporters tend be so loud, rude and vulgar with their language. It is not a nice sight been in the vicinity of football supporters when they are watching their games.

Well ok right, I know maybe not all of them are like that, but football matches just seems to attract a lot of the wrong type of crowd comparing to rugby. What does everyone think?

it's because football fans brains are so ****ed up by watching a ball going up and down the pitch so much it turns them into braindead yokles. a bunch of neanderthals most of them are and the fact that their I/Q is that of a cockroach

El Inho

mikemac wrote: »

The same class of people who kicked a young man to death outside the Burlington Hotel and got a ridiculously low sentence

From good families don't you know, wouldn't want to ruin their lives

really though that comes into the news for shock value...football supporters kick the **** of each other week in week out...ever walked past st. peters in phibsboro when theres a bohs game on...as a country lad....:eek:

J. Marston

zenno wrote: »

it's because football fans brains are so ****ed up by watching a ball going up and down the pitch so much it turns them into braindead yokles. a bunch of neanderthals most of them are and the fact that their I/Q is that of a cockroach

I've never used a rolleyes smiley....and I'm not going to start now.

Shut up.

zenno

J. Marston wrote: »

I've never used a rolleyes smiley....and I'm not going to start now.

Shut up.

you can't hide from the truth.

minidazzler

zenno wrote: »

you can't hide from the truth.

You're posts are idiotic and give the impression that you too could be an idiot, though I am sure you are actually a pleasent person when you are not trolling.

Lapin

Rugby is the truest form of Football.
A game that involves logic and intellect.

Soccer, on the other hand involves kicking a ball around a field.
No imagination or thinking required.

This is reflected in the mindset of those who follow either game.

Hence - Soccer = thick fúcks and wussy boys like Joey Barton.

Rugby = Those who know how to use their brains and real men like Eric Elwood.

policarp

You should try walking or driving through Ballsbridge or Donnybrook after a schools senior cup match and I think you might question your question.

zenno

minidazzler wrote: »

You're posts are idiotic and give the impression that you too could be an idiot, though I am sure you are actually a pleasent person when you are not trolling.

sorry buddy if I come across as a troll (of which I am not) but from what I have seen for the last 20 odd years football fans "not all" are braindead idiots and a resus monkey would have more intelligence.

Sharpshooter

Thread closed, OP you posted your thread in AHs, it's not the forum for this discussion.

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