Imagine if the Germans played Rugby

fryup · 10-10-2011 11:14am #1

...they'd win every world cup or at least get to the final every time, what with their natural tall athletic phyisque and never say die ultra competitive mentality.

don't you think..

sensibleken · 10-10-2011 11:15am

well that was a boring fantasy

average_runner · 10-10-2011 11:17am

why imagine, when they do play rugby!!

10-10-2011 11:17am

They have a national team and they are ****E.

Zere is no logic in passing ze ball backwards vhile maintaining a forward momentum ja...

smash · 10-10-2011 11:18am

fryup wrote: »

don't you think..

No

My name is URL · 10-10-2011 11:18am

Ever so slightly gay

orourkeda · 10-10-2011 11:18am

Why would anyone want toplay rugby.

Latchy · 10-10-2011 11:18am

Nahhh ....

Irish Guitarist · 10-10-2011 11:18am

They do.

Laois_Man · 10-10-2011 11:20am

they're currently ranked #37 in the World!

fryup · 10-10-2011 11:21am

average_runner wrote: »

why imagine, when they do play rugby!!

yes, but they don't take it seriously like they do with football

if they did they would be world beaters no doubt

orourkeda · 10-10-2011 11:22am

Laois_Man wrote: »

they're currently ranked #37 in the World!

Out of how many?

Yeah Buddy · 10-10-2011 11:23am

It's been fifty years since we won an All Ireland in Mayo and tbh, we're getting a bit impatient. The talk now is that we're going to start importing young rangy Africans, teach them how to field a ball, fatten them up a bit and then sit back and watch the medals roll in

Agricola · 10-10-2011 11:24am

Do they use a Blitz defense?

Get it, Blitz......

D1stant · 10-10-2011 11:25am

Imagine if the Germans did comedy.....

Kojak · 10-10-2011 11:25am

orourkeda wrote: »

Out of how many?

38

Laois_Man · 10-10-2011 11:35am

orourkeda wrote: »

Out of how many?

Out of 93.

For Forks Sake · 10-10-2011 11:53am

D1stant wrote: »

Imagine if the Germans did comedy.....

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/f6/german-jokes-36035/

4zn76tysfajdxp · 10-10-2011 12:05pm

D1stant wrote: »

Imagine if the Germans did comedy.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiVOG199X2c

Fishooks12 · 10-10-2011 12:13pm

If the Germans had won the war we'd all be playing Hitler ball right now and dining on delicious Hitler melons

force eleven · 10-10-2011 12:16pm

They'd win all the penalty kick shootouts anyway.

4leto · 10-10-2011 12:20pm

Germans do, do comedy, comedy shows enjoy big ratings in Germany.

There is a strange deference to order and authority to them, so they would make the perfect Rugger team. But I was always curious as to why the USA never "really" took to it. It's the perfect team game, all components must work, it just seems their type of game.

More about the German deference to order and authority. I was watching "Seconds from disaster" about the Munich high speed rail crash were 101 people died.

A metal casing about 3 foot long and 6 inches wide flew off the wheel and though a seat just missing a man. He then got up to report the incident to the conductor who was further up in the train, then the conductor had to inspect the incident before he would stop the train, so while walking back the train derailed. I thought this was bizarre.

If that was Ireland we would clambering over each other to hit the communication cord to stop the train.

Chuck Stone · 10-10-2011 12:23pm

If the USofA got into Rugby in a big way it'd be interesting. Imagine being able to pick a national team from all those American football players.

Yakult · 10-10-2011 12:27pm

Chuck Stone wrote: »

If the USofA got into Rugby in a big way it'd be interesting. Imagine being able to pick a national team from all those American football players.

They might get hurt playing without their protective gear, god bless them.

4leto · 10-10-2011 12:27pm

Chuck Stone wrote: »

If the USofA got into Rugby in a big way it'd be interesting. Imagine being able to pick a national team from all those American football players.

Holy **** Yeah, it really doesn't bare thinking about, it would be a team full of jonah lomu's.

Fishooks12 · 10-10-2011 12:32pm

4leto wrote: »

Holy **** Yeah, it really doesn't bare thinking about, it would be a team full of jonah lomu's.

I doubt it. Most of American footballers aren't even required to carry the ball, never mind master the nuances of the scrum and lineout, even the kicker does nothing but kick. The tackling is totally different too

The only positions that could be related to rugby are running backs who are a bit like centres

who the fug · 10-10-2011 12:34pm

Jesus no, One boring Saxon team is enough, we don't want another one

dfx- · 10-10-2011 12:41pm

fryup wrote: »

yes, but they don't take it seriously like they do with football

if they did they would be world beaters no doubt

Rugby isn't a very logical sport with the scrums, resets, kicking the ball out to keep possession and the breakdowns and rucks and mauls etc. Trying to break the rules and get away with it wouldnt go down well either, hence the best exponents of that style of play - McCaw, Pocock, Burger et al would be lynched in Berlin...

Rugby league is much more suited to them, run as fast and as far up the pitch then tackle and repeat.

Dotrel · 10-10-2011 12:46pm

fryup wrote: »

with their natural tall athletic phyisque and never say die ultra competitive mentality.

Well why don't you just marry the German rugby team in that case.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 10-10-2011 12:58pm

South Africa is mostly made up of Afrikaners who are all Dutch descent who are close to Germans racially... lot of racism here.

But they lost yesterday even though they're better athletes than the Aussies IMO. Look at Pierre Spies, beast of a man but didn't play great yesterday. Timed at 10.7 seconds over 100m, 6 ft 4 in and 17 stone.

cosmicfart · 10-10-2011 1:04pm

Principal Skinner: Sorry bart there is no such thing as Scotchtoberfest

Groundskeeper Wille: There isnt??!!!! YA USED ME SKINNER YA USED ME!!!

citytillidie · 10-10-2011 1:20pm

Chuck Stone wrote: »

If the USofA got into Rugby in a big way it'd be interesting. Imagine being able to pick a national team from all those American football players.

Come on have you watched American football, most action last for 5 seconds then stop for a huddle then stop for an ad break then play again for 5 seconds.

10-10-2011 1:23pm

georgiecasey wrote: »

South Africa is mostly made up of Afrikaners who are all Dutch descent who are close to Germans racially... lot of racism here.

But they lost yesterday even though they're better athletes than the Aussies IMO. Look at Pierre Spies, beast of a man but didn't play great yesterday. Timed at 10.7 seconds over 100m, 6 ft 4 in and 17 stone.

Namibia in fact have a huge German lineage.

Dotrel · 10-10-2011 1:28pm

OT why are the South Africa / Namibia teams generally all-white? Is it an upper-class / private-school sport over there too?

maddragon · 10-10-2011 1:32pm

It'ld be a nightmare for commentators. Trying to avoid comments like "the German attack is cutting through the Russian defence", "the German winger puts his foot on the gas and leaves the Romanians for dead" etc.

Fishooks12 · 10-10-2011 1:34pm

maddragon wrote: »

"the German winger puts his foot on the gas and leaves the Romanians for dead" etc.

They were on the same side !

maddragon · 10-10-2011 1:37pm

Poetic license

Fishooks12 · 10-10-2011 1:41pm

maddragon wrote: »

Poetic license

And the German centre offloads to the Romanian winger Bachan who qualifies through a German grandmother.......after ten minutes of being camped on the Russian line the Romanian and German hybrid team are forced back into their own half

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 10-10-2011 8:40pm

Dotrel wrote: »

OT why are the South Africa / Namibia teams generally all-white? Is it an upper-class / private-school sport over there too?

Rugby in SA was a symbol of the Afrikaner physical superiority. Good Time article here about it: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1659593,00.html

parker kent · 10-10-2011 9:15pm

maddragon wrote: »

It'ld be a nightmare for commentators. Trying to avoid comments like "the German attack is cutting through the Russian defence", "the German winger puts his foot on the gas and leaves the Romanians for dead" etc.

And that problem somehow disappears in soccer?

I know you were joking...but you know be logical!

Anyway, it is blatantly obvious that if a country like Germany took rugby seriously that they would be one of the top teams in the world. Pretty much like in any other sport that they take seriously (or any other country of a similar size).

Son Of A Vidic · 10-10-2011 9:24pm

fryup wrote: »

...they'd win every world cup or at least get to the final every time, what with their natural tall athletic phyisque and never say die ultra competitive mentality.

don't you think..

Nah I don't think.

Anyway I just checked the calendar, because for a minute there I thought I was back in 1930's Germany.

Duckworth_Luas · 10-10-2011 9:25pm

Rugby was relatively popular in Germany before WW2. In fact they even recorded victories over France. The Nazis discouraged it however as they saw it as being too "English". It never recovered its popularity after the war.

Dotrel · 10-10-2011 9:29pm

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Rugby was relatively popular in Germany before WW2. In fact they even recorded victories over France. The Nazis discouraged it however as they saw it as being too "English". It never recovered its popularity after the war.

Funny that they kept playing football. That's a pretty English sport too.

Logical Fallacy · 10-10-2011 9:33pm

Chuck Stone wrote: »

If the USofA got into Rugby in a big way it'd be interesting. Imagine being able to pick a national team from all those American football players.

Two drastically different kinds of sports with dramatically different requirements with regards to strength and conditioning.

Make a Rugby Team from the top NFL players and they'd get mashed by a rugby team.

questionmark? · 10-10-2011 9:34pm

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

They do.

Rugby league is for the poor steel workers of the north of engerland and their descendants in oz. Union is much more popular.

orourkeda wrote: »

Out of how many?

93

http://www.irb.com/rankings/full.html (Poor Finland

)

Dotrel wrote: »

Well why don't you just marry the German rugby team in that case.

Why not zest are the superior race http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/236/ingarobertleyphilippbouhler922.jpg/

parker kent · 10-10-2011 9:40pm

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

Two drastically different kinds of sports with dramatically different requirements with regards to strength and conditioning.

Make a Rugby Team from the top NFL players and they'd get mashed by a rugby team.

I imagine he means if you took those same guys as teenagers and taught them how to play rugby. The same way that if we had only one major sport (say soccer) we would do better if all of our runners, GAA players, rugby players etc focused on just soccer from 10 onwards. Given the USA has an enormous number of large, athletic people, his post is true enough.

If the same percentage of American footballers took up rugby in High School (and they received sufficient training), they would dominate the sport.

Which is pretty obvious.

questionmark? wrote: »

Rugby league is for the poor steel workers of the north of engerland and their descendants in oz. Union is much more popular.

In Ireland. There is not a massive difference in popularity in England and League is actually more popular in Australia.

Dotrel · 10-10-2011 9:43pm

questionmark? wrote: »

Why not zest are the superior race http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/236/ingarobertleyphilippbouhler922.jpg/

You can bet on one thing, that if the Germans had a good rugby team that'd they defo have the best uniforms at RWC.

Killer Pigeon · 10-10-2011 9:45pm

Zey vouldn't vant to get zeir fäbulously sleek uniforms all dirty, ja. Zey would be so űber annoyed because it vould take so long to get ze stains out, ja.

ascanbe · 10-10-2011 9:46pm

There are very few countries in the world where Rugby is played in any kind of serious way/by any significant number of people.
And even of the teams in the World-cup, Rugby isn't the biggest sport in the majority of them and isn't even the second biggest sport in many.
So you could insert the name of practically any country in the world for Germany and ponder on this.

Killer Pigeon · 10-10-2011 9:48pm

There are far to many people of German descent in America. That's way, in American football, they have to wear so much protection.

(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)

Logical Fallacy · 10-10-2011 9:51pm

parker kent wrote: »

I imagine he means if you took those same guys as teenagers and taught them how to play rugby. The same way that if we had only one major sport (say soccer) we would do better if all of our runners, GAA players, rugby players etc focused on just soccer from 10 onwards. Given the USA has an enormous number of large, athletic people, his post is true enough.

If the same percentage of American footballers took up rugby in High School (and they received sufficient training), they would dominate the sport.

Which is pretty obvious.

Oh absolutely. The Americans tend to pump enormous cash into sports programs in schools and colleges.

Seeing as he was talking about picking American Football players though i just kind of assumed he meant a straight transfer from one sport to the other.

Imagine if the Germans played Rugby

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