All Blacks v Irish property developers

Oberkon

The Irish football team v Switzerland had 10 from the 11 born in Ireland in it the other night
It’s not like jacks days now , very much Irish . Prob why we get beat easy !

doughef

I can’t wait until the ars* falls out of the rugby all together .
A baron decade ... sponsors running for the hills ., and all the kids hovered up by the GAA...

.. a proper organisation 😎

pgj2015

ErnestBorgnine wrote: »

Niall Quinn is a long streak of piss

I think Niall Quinn is a creep:)

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I
The rugby players are posho wannabe sex offenders and the Irish soccer squad are mostly English.

That's not really true. Most of the Irish team were born in Ireland.

Capt. Autumn

The Irish rugby team, their fans and the media that constantly hype them up got a rude awakening on Saturday morning. It's one thing to be outplayed by a better team but it's another thing entirely to fail to execute the basics of the game and play with no heart. This was an Irish team that was beaten before the All-Blacks even finished the haka. You could see the fear in their eyes.

For the vast majority of the Irish population rugby has always been and will remain a minority sport played and funded by the professional classes who send their children to private schools. They never were and never will be the team of us until they broaden the appeal of the support to the great unwashed.

Can you imagine how immense Michael Murphy from Donegal or David Clifford from Kerry would be on the rugby pitch? They probably never got the chance to play because Daddy isn't a dentist or a solicitor. A sport that elitist doesn't deserve the support of the whole country and will not get it.

Nothing against the chap, but here's a picture of Jordan Larmour back in his hockey playing days.. Like, What percentage of Irish people have even held a hockey stick in their lives? You see how it's difficult to empathise with these people when the only thing you have in common is a shared nationality.

Stacksofwacks

Its weird. You'd imagine soccer would be the gentile sport and rugby would be played by thugs but its the other way round. Rugby is a tough physical game and not everyone could play it. You need to respect the rules and your opponents and if you don't things could get out of hand very quickly. People with poor discipline and short fuses wouldn't last long in rugby. Rugby league has less rules and is less strategic, so appeals more to working classes.

awec

Some people seem to suffer with some sort of inferiority complex.

"OMG he played hockey, he's clearly way above my station!"

Capt. Autumn

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

Rugby league has less rules and is less strategic, so appeals more to working classes.

What, exactly, do you mean by that?

Stacksofwacks

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

What, exactly, do you mean by that?

Its less tactical, more easy to understand.. akin to trench warfare

s7ryf3925pivug

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

Its weird. You'd imagine soccer would be the gentile sport and rugby would be played by thugs but its the other way round. Rugby is a tough physical game and not everyone could play it. You need to respect the rules and your opponents and if you don't things could get out of hand very quickly. People with poor discipline and short fuses wouldn't last long in rugby. Rugby league has less rules and is less strategic, so appeals more to working classes.

So you're saying Jewish people are thugs!?

Capt. Autumn

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

Its less tactical, more easy to understand.. akin to trench warfare

So the working class are less clever than the middle classes? Were there studies completed to confirm this? This is the kind of thing that alienates the ordinary man in the street from rugby and its supporters.

Stacksofwacks

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

So the working class are less clever than the middle classes? Were there studies completed to confirm this? This is the kind of thing that alienates the ordinary man in the street from rugby and its supporters.

Ok we'll call it less educated then, am I saying anything that isn't true?

pgj2015

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

Its weird. You'd imagine soccer would be the gentile sport and rugby would be played by thugs but its the other way round. Rugby is a tough physical game and not everyone could play it. You need to respect the rules and your opponents and if you don't things could get out of hand very quickly. People with poor discipline and short fuses wouldn't last long in rugby. Rugby league has less rules and is less strategic, so appeals more to working classes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBTSQHw64to

you sure?

Capt. Autumn

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

Ok we'll call it less educated then, am I saying anything that isn't true?

Yeah, I think you are.
You are saying that a doctor's son would find it easier to pick up the rules of rugby than an electrician's son. I'm calling bull**** on that.

Mike9832

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

Its weird. You'd imagine soccer would be the gentile sport and rugby would be played by thugs but its the other way round. Rugby is a tough physical game and not everyone could play it. You need to respect the rules and your opponents and if you don't things could get out of hand very quickly. People with poor discipline and short fuses wouldn't last long in rugby. Rugby league has less rules and is less strategic, so appeals more to working classes.

Need to be well fed for rugby

That costs money

Stacksofwacks

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

Yeah, I think you are.
You are saying that a doctor's son would find it easier to pick up the rules of rugby than an electrician's son. I'm calling bull**** on that.

Am I?

s7ryf3925pivug

Don't mind him, he's just trying to distract from his weird anti-Semitic remark.

Stacksofwacks

Luke Plump Gymnasium wrote: »

Don't mind him, he's just trying to distract from his weird anti-Semitic remark.

Easy tiger

s7ryf3925pivug

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

Easy tiger

boring.
Gentile means not Jewish. I think you meant genteel.

wassie

Woke Hogan wrote: »

International sport is a joke in Ireland, I rarely follow any of it.

...Then you have the likes of Sinead Diver who’s one of the best runners from Ireland but she has to claim for Australia because of some ridiculous and obscure rule. What a waste of time.

By best runners from Ireland you mean the fact she was born here, but moved to Australia in 2002 and didn't start running until 2010 and received all her high performance coaching & training in Australia. Probably not the best example...

the_syco

Once ABE wins, I'm happy!

Woke Hogan

wassie wrote: »

By best runners from Ireland you mean the fact she was born here, but moved to Australia in 2002 and didn't start running until 2010 and received all her high performance coaching & training in Australia. Probably not the best example...

Born and raised in Ireland, yes. She was well into her 20s when she left. You couldn’t be more Irish than her. And yet she has to run for Australia because of some ludicrous regulation despite her own wishes to run for Ireland. Ridiculous. Could only happen in Ireland. :rolleyes:

ben.schlomo

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Born and raised in Ireland, yes. She was well into her 20s when she left. You couldn’t be more Irish than her. And yet she has to run for Australia because of some ludicrous regulation despite her own wishes to run for Ireland. Ridiculous. Could only happen in Ireland. :rolleyes:

Ignoring your nonsense post on the football team though, good deflection.

Woke Hogan

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Ignoring your nonsense post on the football team though, good deflection.

Deflection? What do you think this is, a press conference?

Mad_maxx

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

So the working class are less clever than the middle classes? Were there studies completed to confirm this? This is the kind of thing that alienates the ordinary man in the street from rugby and its supporters.

Different strands of " clever"

Rugby has extremely complicated rules, you would need to be a doctor or brilliant legal mind, doesn't mean the sport is all that much of a spectacle but it's not remotely simple like Gaelic football is

ThunbergsAreGo

Sleepy wrote: »

Jaysus, some of you lot have some serious chips on your shoulders. Should those of us with no interest in soccer condemn it as a game for knackers because our best player of living memory was a scumbag from Cork? Wouldn't seem fair fair to the likes of Niall Quinn.

Robbie Keane isn't from Cork....

Woke Hogan

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Different strands of " clever"

Rugby has extremely complicated rules, you would need to be a doctor or brilliant legal mind, doesn't mean the sport is all that much of a spectacle but it's not remotely simple like Gaelic football is

Yes.




As you can see on this chart, the degenerate working classes, with their simian brows and thuggish instinct, lack the intellectual capacity to learn complex regulations and rules. Scofflaws and gutterboys have no place in the Sport of Lords.

Dyr

Mike9832 wrote: »

Need to be well fed for rugby

That costs money

Actually Rugby does appear to be quite a pricey past time

Expensive school with the extra curricular activities costing a fortune
Coaching & Supplements

I know 4x4 mummies who pushed their primary school kids into rugby because they think its great for networking, for both the kids and them:D

jam_mac_jam

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

Ok we'll call it less educated then, am I saying anything that isn't true?

Ross? Is that you?

boetstark

doughef wrote: »

I hope NZ hammer the shyte out of them.

Sick of this #teamofuscrap

Let’s just move on

I'm sure neighbours pay a premium to live alongside your ilk.
Said it before from living here 19 years, if there was a begrudgers world cup the Irish would own the title.