Do you not care about Rugby?

I am surprised that people want to pick hairs out of a great occasion .The team was representing ireland ,the country .It's a big sporting achievment that is to be celebrated by all irish ,even those who couldn't tell a rugby ball from a soccer one. This is the one that future irish sporting generations will look back on just like the 1948 team .

themont85 wrote: »

Better than the people who just spout uninformed dislike for a sport based on stereotypes-ie 'there is something about rugby and people thinking they are superior'.

Speaking of which, I hope you don't mind me saying it, but themont85 must be one of the most rugbyish names I've ever seen on boards. My collars are popping of their own accord just reading it.

ah come on, how could u not get wsept away by the emotion of it all, even ryle nugent was nearly crying!! i even shed a tear!! 'im not proud of it, not ashamed of it either it was just something i had to do'!!:)

I don't see how people can see it as an elitist sport,it's accessible to all.

There are many many things I like about the sport.I also like GAA, unfortunately though I don't understand the 'passion' people have for soccer.


The thing i hate most about watching soccer matches but which doesn't happen in rugby is the way in which referees and rules are treated and respected. I still don't understand and it infuriates me, why players don't get yellow cards or sent-off for cursing and continously complaining to referees about decisions. Honestly proffessional soccer players look like spoilt children. Why don't referees send them off?

I like the way in rugby, there's a position for every type of person. Be he a footballer with vision, full-back,out-half....a slight fast player, winger....a heavy, prop....or the lanky stong slightly awkward guy....second row and everything in between.
It's particularly good for fat kids I think, who get ignored in sports where they might have ability but can't keep up with the pace of play in GAA or soccer.


Also having played a number of sports, I find rugby to be far superior.The reason is that, you always have a job to do, you're always engaged for 80 minutes and your always physically and mentally drained by the end. I always thought with soccer particularly that I might have to wait periods of up to 4 minutes to get the ball or tackle someone, depending on position, with rugby it's like less than 1 minute, sometimes every 15 seconds.

Sport needs a certain amount of physicality to interest me for starters. A sport like soccer is too restrictive, you can't act on trained instinct, theres so much hesitation in the physical contact. I mean it's crazy that a guy who is stronger and faster and possibly more skilled can't just disposses another guy fairly, it barely even seems possible anymore.

And then it's the mental attitude, you stamp on a rugby guys face and he'll get stitches come back on the field and get you but only if it doesn't affect his team winning.
You'll be banned anyway.

You trip a professional soccer player up and he starts crying and telling (his mammy) the referee to give you a yellow card.

pisslips wrote: »

I don't see how people can see it as an elitist sport,it's accessible to all.

Honestly proffessional soccer players look like spoilt children. Why don't referees send them off?

I like the way in rugby, there's a position for every type of person. Be he a footballer with vision, full-back,out-half....a slight fast player, winger....a heavy, prop....or the lanky stong slightly awkward guy....second row and everything in between.
It's particularly good for fat kids I think, who get ignored in sports where they might have ability but can't keep up with the pace of play in GAA or soccer.
I find rugby to be far superior.The reason is that, you always have a job to do, you're always engaged for 80 minutes and your always physically and mentally drained by the end. I always thought with soccer particularly that I might have to wait periods of up to 4 minutes to get the ball or tackle someone, depending on position, with rugby it's like less than 1 minute, sometimes every 15 seconds.

And then it's the mental attitude, you stamp on a rugby guys face and he'll get stitches come back on the field and get you but only if it doesn't affect his team winning.
You'll be banned anyway.

You trip a professional soccer player up and he starts crying and telling (his mammy) the referee to give you a yellow card.

said it better than i ever could! just highlighted some points i stongly agree with there! I like rugby, i get that not every ones into it and thats cool, i respect that,but given the choice,have to say, soccer bores me to tears whereas Rugby is engaging and fast moving.

just my 2c...

Quint wrote: »

You obviously never played on the wing. And in fairness, with the stop start nature of rugby, you mightn't get the ball for 20 minutes!

Fine admitedly a half-back but I have played on the wing a few times. So the other team have the ball, your covering the kick, your watching the opposing half-backs, your following your opposite winger to prevent an overlap. Your reading the play and communicating it to the inside backs, since you have the best view, most time.

Your full back goes forward so you cover, they make an 8-9 break down the blind so you have to decide whether to rush up or hold back and wait for support.

Anyone breaks the line, your trying to offer support since your the best finisher. Your constantly reading the opposing defense to see if you can find any staggers gaps to exploit and offer yourself as a strike runner.

In rugby, you can make yourself busy.It's mostly mental pressure.