Am I the only one who doesn't like Rugby & Football?

Plug · 10-06-2006 05:05PM

Simply put, its basically 20 or so lads running around a field chasing a piece of leather trying to put the ball in a net:rolleyes: Thats the way I view football!
Rugby is watchable if you are drunk or stoned.

mikemac · 10-06-2006 05:14PM

zero time for rugby.

Went to Donnybrook once with some lads from work
Stood on the sideline without a clue of what was going on.

Still bought tickets for the Heineken Cup Final from ticketmaster.co.uk and made a few quid selling them on ebay.

Endurance Man · 10-06-2006 05:14PM

Plug wrote:

Simply put, its basically 20 or so lads running around a field chasing a piece of leather trying to put the ball in a net:rolleyes: Thats the way I view football!
Rugby is watchable if you are drunk or stoned.

Watch this and then tell me that

:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1280973368188066181&q=ronaldhino

That is not any old "chasing"!

daveirl · 10-06-2006 05:27PM

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Plug · 10-06-2006 05:30PM

Sorry but he's still kicking a piece of leather around a field in front of 80000 people who also get enjoyment from this lame sport:rolleyes:

Dave! · 10-06-2006 05:32PM

Plug wrote:

Simply put, its basically 20 or so lads running around a field chasing a piece of leather trying to put the ball in a net:rolleyes: Thats the way I view football!
Rugby is watchable if you are drunk or stoned.

god i hate this logic... it's "just" kicking a ball around... it's "just" throwing a ball through a hoop... it's "just" flicking pages and engaging with a story... it's "just" receiving musical information through your ears... it's "just" climbing a mountain.

*JUST* what is YOUR hobby?

Plug · 10-06-2006 05:39PM

DaveMcG wrote:

*JUST* what is YOUR hobby?

Driving RC model cars+planes and dolfin shooting:p

Cake Fiend · 10-06-2006 05:44PM

I can at least understand the interest in rugby, even if I wouldn't sit through a whole match myself, but the idea of watching 90 minutes of soccer has always bewildered me. It's about as exciting to watch as golf or darts.

Also, soccer is for boys, rugby is for men.

Ice hockey is for animals

mikemac · 10-06-2006 05:48PM

You could have this thread about any sport.

I'd happily watch tennis for hours but I don't know anyone else who would

Roll on Wimbeldon!

daveirl · 10-06-2006 05:50PM

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Plug · 10-06-2006 05:50PM

Sico wrote:

I can at least understand the interest in rugby, even if I wouldn't sit through a whole match myself, but the idea of watching 90 minutes of soccer has always bewildered me. It's about as exciting to watch as golf or darts.

Also, soccer is for boys, rugby is for men.

Ice hockey is for animals

Agreed;)

snickerpuss · 10-06-2006 05:55PM

I used to have no interest in sport whatsoever and just couldn't see the point but in the last few years i've gotten more into it and now i go to lots of leinster matches, follow the rugby and baseball and also have weird love for football that 'old me' would have been shocked about. I've been looking forward to the world cup cos i miss the premiership. I even went over to newcastle to watch a match.

That said i would rather die than watch snooker/darts/golf. I don't know anything about GAA and i don't know where to start but i don't think i should start with another sport or i'll get no work at all done!

Different sports for different people i guess.

83ste · 10-06-2006 06:01PM

Zascar wrote:

In times like now when the world cup is on, you meet so many people who try to start a conversation with you about football, but when they realise you have no interest, it seems like they have nothing else to talk about. Pretty sad.

Story of my life. If I had a euro for the amount of times I've had the following conversation, I'd have, well, a couple of euros:

Random co-worker/classmate: Ya see the match last night?

Me (deadpan, matter-of-fact tone): No.

Them: Oh, eh, right. *looks away/down*

I am a complete motorsport nut and damn proud of it. It's also a great talking point - I know it sounds crazy but I have had people transfixed for ages on several occasions with discussions of the details of Formula 1 and other motorsport which they may watch casually, but know nothing about.

I don't see soccer or rugby as particularly boring per se, it's just boring to be into them. Everyone has their own half-baked, ill-informed opinion and I think 75% only keep up with what's happening for the sake of fitting in. My dad, for example, sometimes watches GAA matches because 'the guys in work will be talking about it on Monday'. As Zascar said, sad. I guess the whole thing grates with my 'if you're gonna do something, do it properly' approach to life.

One other thing which mystifies me. I understand why people watch the English premiership, it's got the best players and quality of matches in the world but how and why exactly do Irish people form strong emotional attachments to clubs based in English cities fielding constantly-changing lineups of mainly European and African players?

Zascar · 10-06-2006 07:02PM

Totally agree Serrity. I really hate the way every bloody rugby and soccar fan just thinks that they know everything, often more so than the manager of the team.

"Ah sure yer man is mad putting (player A) on the wing, (player

is miles better... bla bla bla".

Vinnie69 · 11-06-2006 11:46AM

Having watch England play(?) yesterday, just reinforced my opinion of soccer that football as played today is just the same as pro. wrestling is i.e. phony and all an act of spoilt brats who are over-paid mammy's boys! I played both soccer and rugby in school. Although rugby is professional nowadays, it is still a "real" sport and if you can follow the action (ie know the rules) it is the better sport!!

Zascar · 11-06-2006 11:49AM

Yeah it is pathetic, I can't understand why they don't make it more of a punishable offence to fake an injury to try to get a yellow card etc

Endurance Man · 11-06-2006 11:52AM

Zascar wrote:

Yeah it is pathetic, I can't understand why they don't make it more of a punishable offence to fake an injury to try to get a yellow card etc

I would remove them from the field and give them a 1month ban :mad: , it really is a joke. These guys have the skills to run around a player, take a shot and score. Why do they think they have to trip themselves in order to get a little closer to the net!

Pigman II · 11-06-2006 12:01PM

Big footy fan but I have hardly any interest in rugby (either as player or spectator).

The last rugby game I watched was NZ at Lansdowne last year and I was actually cheering for them because I could tell they were class and we were an embarrasment. I never make a point to watch Ireland playing rugger and I didn't even know Ireland were playing New Zealand yesterday until the game was nearly over. By accident I tuned the game in on the car radio yesterday when it was 23-21 and decided to leave it on cos I knew we'd never beaten them so it'd be a bit of history.

Well in that very instant NZ were awarded a peno to take the lead 24-23. Ireland collapsed straight after. I had to laugh. I must be a jinx on them.

OP you mention snooker/tennis/motorsport so maybe it's just a case that you prefer individual sports over team sports? Nothing wrong with that anyway.

MrJoeSoap · 11-06-2006 12:05PM

daveirl wrote:

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Its just so bloody hard to follow the puck! G'wan the Oilers though!

deisemum · 11-06-2006 12:17PM

Each to their own. When I was younger I couldn't stand the amount of sport coverage on tv and didn't follow any sport but now that I know more about some of the different sports (as explained to me by hubby and sons) I actually enjoy watching it, especially rugby, soccer, hurling, snooker.

Rugby is my favourite (like watching real men get stuck in especially the lovely Jerry Flannery) to watch except when the mum in me is watching my son is playing.

Kintarō Hattori · 11-06-2006 01:30PM

I have zero interest in rugby or football. Back when I was younger I tried to take an interest when Kevin Keegan was managing Newcastle but that only lasted aseason or two and I lost interest. I hate the world cup season and I dislike the olympics too, I'm not terribly keen on watching sport full stop. I'm the only one in my family with no interest. Even my own mother has in the past told me that ...... wait for it ........ It's patethic that I don't like football when everyone else does. Evil woman.

Endurance Man · 11-06-2006 01:32PM

eo980 wrote:

I have zero interest in rugby or football. Back when I was younger I tried to take an interest when Kevin Keegan was managing Newcastle but that only lasted aseason or two and I lost interest. I hate the world cup season and I dislike the olympics too, I'm not terribly keen on watching sport full stop. I'm the only one in my family with no interest. Even my own mother has in the past told me that ...... wait for it ........ It's patethic that I don't like football when everyone else does. Evil woman.

YOu must like some sports

Kintarō Hattori · 11-06-2006 01:55PM

Endurance Man wrote:

YOu must like some sports

Not particuarly. I used to like Formula One years ago, but that became pretty boring. To be quite honest I can't really think of anything that I like to watch or that I'd even support.
I'm just not a sports person. Might have something to do with my bro who always hogged the TV when we were growing up to watch ANY sport that was on. Maybe I'm harbouring some sort of resentment towards sport!! :eek: Heh Heh.

r3nu4l · 12-06-2006 01:41PM

I will watch a good rugby or soccer match but don't follow any particular team!

Love watching snooker, bowls and tenpin bowling. (No, I'm not joking!).

Womens tennis, I'll watch, depending on who's playing

thelordofcheese · 12-06-2006 02:25PM

Vinnie69 wrote:

Having watch England play(?) yesterday, just reinforced my opinion of soccer that football as played today is just the same as pro. wrestling is i.e. phony and all an act of spoilt brats who are over-paid mammy's boys! I played both soccer and rugby in school. Although rugby is professional nowadays, it is still a "real" sport and if you can follow the action (ie know the rules) it is the better sport!!

You could watch a terrible match in any sport and use it to 'prove' any number of failings about said sport.

One game is hardly a valid metric of any sport, just in the same way it's be wrong of me to call rugby an excuse for two teams of lads to have a good ole grope of each other without feeling weird about it, based on one random game I may have seen once.

InFront · 12-06-2006 02:59PM

It really annoys me when people go ona bout the amount of sport on TV. When in reality theres just as much airtime, more, given to politics which although very important, actually interests a smaller number of people! This applies to radio more so than to TV where the balance is greater.

Anotther thing that makes me grind my teetch is when people compare sports. I like all sports, I cant think of a single one I would watch (darts isnt sport!) but when people say something like "Cricket, thats so gay" or "Rugby is for D4 idiots" I just think *DICKHEAD!*If you dont like it just change the channel!

Zascar · 12-06-2006 03:07PM

The problem with football the way I see it, is that its become less of a sport and more of a business. Gone are the days when it was who's town/county/country is the best, now its what manger can assemble the most talent and make it work with the money he has got. The football clubs are more accountants than sportsmen. Of course the passion will always be there withthe fans and players, but it has lost its purity. Its a pitty really.

r3nu4l · 12-06-2006 03:08PM

You were doing so well until you said

InFront wrote:

darts isn't sport!

Don't like darts myself but the fact remains that it is a sport, not very active but still a sport!

InFront · 12-06-2006 03:15PM

I would describe a sport as an active association of people pursuing some sort of physical fitness, chess and darts are games but not really sport? Thats just my definition really of course not everyone would agree.

With regard to the football, I think that although it has changed, whats at the centre is still the same untouchable, beautiful game it always was. Has anyone read the recent issue of National Geographic about world football? It really highlights the importance of sport beyond just physical fitness.

Lord Nikon · 12-06-2006 03:57PM

To be honest I have no real interest in sports on TV. It bores me, it's unbelievably repeditive(soccer is on all the damn time), and takes up too much of peoples time.
I play some snooker occasionally, but lately i couldn't be bothered, it's too much effort driving to the nearest club(Celbridge, via the Barbertown carpark).

I'd rather watch something decent on TV that stimulates my mind ie. Super Structures on The Discovery Channel. I'd also rather read the Indo or watch the RTE News.

If people spent their disposable time on say Politics, maybe we would complain less about the way the "government" is wasting our money and doing a half-assed job of running the country, because we would know more about how our country is run.

Sport is boring and you learn nothing from it.

Am I the only one who doesn't like Rugby & Football?

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