Women and Rugby

price690

Spent an hour eating lunch today with a female boss (who has never shown any inclination to be interested in sport before) and listened to her rabbiting on about Rugby.

It was farcical stuff really, she had clearly swotted up over the weekend and in her own head she has become a superfan in the last week or so.

She tells us she is Johnny Sexton's number 1 fan and cannot wait to see him in action for Leinster this season. I'm not a rugby head but I simply didn't have the heart to tell her he's now playing in France :P

So what is it about women doing their absolute best to be rugby fans?

Franticfrank

This is just a wild guess but perhaps it's a good way to meet men.

Dravokivich

Well, they won the 6 nations more recently than the men.

Gbear

It's a person thing more than a women thing.

When you know so little about something that you don't even know you don't know anything then you usually end up putting your foot in it.

Specialun

what did you have for lunch?

wretcheddomain

Your boss just realised she's a butch lesbian.

LeinsterDub

price690 wrote: »

So what is it about women doing their absolute best to be rugby fans?

It's Ireland Armchairing or Bandwagoning is what a lot of men and women do best .

iwantmydinner

Ehm, many women are actual rugby fans.

uch

Gbear wrote: »

It's a person thing more than a women thing.

When you know so little about something that you don't even know you don't know anything then you usually end up putting your foot in it.

You win, I'm fukin Bamboozled by this one

P_1

Perhaps it's down to rugby being an excellent sport to follow that is family friendly and doesn't have the negative aspects (segregated crowds, racism, olympic worthy diving) of other sports I could mention?

Unfortunately it seems that the lady you were speaking to doesn't seem to follow the sport so closely if she is under the belief that Sexton is still playing for Leinster mind.

Awesomeness

I know plenty of men who have jumped on to rugby as a sport over the last few years. It is growing in profile and I think it is more appealing to women than football.

I know many women who have more knowledge of the game than some of the random lads you meet in the pub during a match

loveBBhate

Shane Byrne played rugby for the Irish men's rugby team and we all know how good she was so, let them at it

humanji

Save this gold for your autobiography.