The D4 Media/ Posh Boys and Irish Rugby – Spoon feeding the masses

Dyr · 16-03-2014 01:30PM

RoyalCelt wrote: »

Had a good laugh reading both sides on this thread.

My issue with |Rugby (which I play and follow) is that it gets way to much airtime. Why is Scot v Wales live on RTE ahead of Dublin v Kilkenny in the hurling?

Why do RTE show the woman's rugby but not the woman's soccer or all ireland woman's final which gets relegated to TG4?

There is no denying Rugby gets too much airtime and if it's clearly because it's based in D4 and biased due to the likes of Nugent being head of sport.

Ryle Nugent is head of sport at ORTE is why.

Shanotheslayer · 16-03-2014 01:32PM

AndonHandon wrote: »

But they won, therefore they did deserve to win. The other team didn't take their chances.

Christ I'm not even arsed.

AndonHandon · 16-03-2014 01:39PM

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Christ I'm not even arsed.

Duly noted.

mikemac1 · 16-03-2014 01:46PM

Nenagh Ormond are going for promotion in the AIL. Most players come from the local CBS or vocational school. The ladies also come from local schools.

Private school? What private school?

Plenty of them work in the local multi national, some with a trade, others on the factory floor and plenty of others are just students

Getuptheyard OP

anncoates · 16-03-2014 02:23PM

I don't actually understand the rules of rugby.

There, I admitted it.

MJ23 · 16-03-2014 02:50PM

I like the rugby, it's good, lots of action in it. I still don't understand the purpose of the scrum, all they do is fall on the ground and the ball rolls out the back.

anncoates · 16-03-2014 03:04PM

MJ23 wrote: »

I still don't understand the purpose of the scrum

Grope other men's testicles.

Napper Hawkins · 16-03-2014 03:10PM

mfceiling wrote: »

That is without a shadow of a doubt, the stupidest post i have ever read on boards...well done OP, well done.

Interesting, struck a nerve did it? Because I disagree with you, that post describes an awful lot of people I know to a tee. It's actually so bang on it's depressing.

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience · 16-03-2014 03:13PM

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

Interesting, struck a nerve did it? Because I disagree with you, that post describes an awful lot of people I know to a tee. It's actually so bang on it's depressing.

Your post was pathetically sad. Amazed you were even able to make yourself type such ****e\]

Easily one of the most small-minded ignorant things i've ever read. Which is hilarious considering the tone of the idiotic posts was aimed all the supposedly stupid simply rugby folk

It's ignorant **** like this that keeps me away from AHs

Napper Hawkins · 16-03-2014 03:29PM

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience wrote: »

Your post was pathetically sad. Amazed you were even able to make yourself type such ****e\]

Easily one of the most small-minded ignorant things i've ever read. Which is hilarious considering the tone of the idiotic posts was aimed all the supposedly stupid simply rugby folk

It's ignorant **** like this that keeps me away from AHs

I didn't write the post, genius.

OldRio · 16-03-2014 03:43PM

So many sad individuals who seem to have a chip on both shoulders.

At least the internet keeps them off the streets.

RollieFingers · 16-03-2014 03:47PM

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

I didn't write the post, genius.

Haha, the brains on this thread!

Napper Hawkins · 16-03-2014 03:49PM

RollieFingers wrote: »

Haha, the brains on this thread!

Excuse me?

RollieFingers · 16-03-2014 03:57PM

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

Excuse me?

I was laughing at the poster insinuating it was your post!

cletus van damme · 16-03-2014 04:01PM

Inner City Hedgehog wrote: »

Rugby represents the crushing, boring, bland, safe, unimaginative, "we like everything middle of the road" section of Irish society.

(bit in the middle)

Rugby is what unites them all, and people like them.

that is excellent , you have just described all my former class mates (i had the misfortune of going to a rugby school) and peers and their slow mental decline as they grow older. All semblance of a personality slowing dying to become this bland character. Rugby seems to unite them all.

I salute you!

Napper Hawkins · 16-03-2014 04:01PM

RollieFingers wrote: »

I was laughing at the poster insinuating it was your post!

Ah apologies, you quoted me so I misread it as directed at me.
Looks like I really am the brains of this thread! Derp.

Muise... · 16-03-2014 04:02PM

RollieFingers wrote: »

I was laughing at the poster insinuating it was your post!

Offended rugby fans: funnier than an angry coot in mating season. :pac:

SpaceTime · 16-03-2014 04:05PM

Given how much ad revenues rugby brings in, I think the OP's point's somewhat dimmed by reality.

I find this whole 'it's a foreign sport' attitude about sports gets a bit ridiculous in this day and age.

Rugby has a pretty big following in Ireland. It has elitist elements in terms of schools rugby in Dublin and Cork, but there's nothing to stop teams forming and people playing and that has definitely happened in the last few decades.

The provincial clubs perform really well internationally and that's brought in a lot of fans.

Also, rugby manages to unite North and South at matches in a way that soccer can't and in a way that GAA only appeals to one Northern community and can become quite politically charged in the North (unfortunately)

So, it's been quite bridge-building in many ways.

OldRio · 16-03-2014 04:05PM

cletus van damme wrote: »

that is excellent , you have just descibed all my former class mates (i had the misfortune of going to a rugby school) and peers and their slow mental decline as they grow older. All semblance of a personality slowing dying to become this bland character. Rugby seems to united them all.

I salute you!

Well he's banned now for one of the sickest 'jokes' I've read on here. But hey if thats what you look up to.

pool_shark · 16-03-2014 04:10PM

I like the sport fairly well although a poor rugby match is far more boring than a poor soccer or GAA match

I dislike with a passion the kind of rugby fan who views an interest in the sport as essential when it comes to climbing the career and social ladder , that phenomenon makes it more of a cultural pastime than an actual sport

pool_shark · 16-03-2014 04:14PM

Stojkovic wrote: »

Probably does get proportionately too much airtime but if it keeps bog-ball or stick wars off the box well then thats a good thing IMO.

a GAA fan can hardly complain about too much attention being given to other sports , the GAA has had special status placed upon it since the foundation of the state , to the detriment of every other sport which is played internationally

SpaceTime · 16-03-2014 04:17PM

pool_shark wrote: »

I like the sport fairly well although a poor rugby match is far more boring than a poor soccer or GAA match

I dislike with a passion the kind of rugby fan who views an interest in the sport as essential when it comes to climbing the career and social ladder , that phenomenon makes it more of a cultural pastime than an actual sport

That's the schools though more than the game.
It's a bit like golf in that regard.

You can't really blame rugby for the posh Irish school boy mentality that goes on in banking, politics and some areas of life. It's gradually dying away anyway as more people from other backgrounds come up through university and land plum jobs on merit rather than connections.

Femme_Fatale · 16-03-2014 04:23PM

Is the fashion to sneer at "middle-of-the-road people who live in the suburbs" or people who are a bit quirky and "hipster"? I can never keep up. I thought it was the latter for a good while.

RollieFingers · 16-03-2014 04:41PM

Liverpool just put in the sporting performance of the weekend

COYW · 16-03-2014 04:54PM

RollieFingers wrote: »

Liverpool just put in the sporting performance of the weekend

I am not much of a rugby fan but Ireland winning in Paris yesterday was a far better performance that Liverpool's, as Liverpool were hot favourites to win today. United had little to no chance of winning today, as the result proved. France had a great chance of winning yesterday.

RollieFingers · 16-03-2014 05:01PM

COYW wrote: »

I am not much of a rugby fan but Ireland winning in Paris yesterday was a far better performance that Liverpool's, as Liverpool were hot favourites to win today. United had little to no chance of winning today, as the result proved. France had a great chance of winning yesterday.

We'll have to agree to disagree!

Fratton Fred · 16-03-2014 05:07PM

Agricola wrote: »

Has anyone argued that the media frenzy is warranted because an Irish team has just won a championship comprised of countries with populations in excess of 60 million people....?? and that a player many experts would consider to be the greatest of his generation has retired.....from playing for Ireland??

Yes we do overdo and exaggerate the importance of lots of non events but this isnt one of them. In sporting terms its a huge accomplishment for a country this size and the fact that people don't like it is more to do with over exposure and "garrison game" fúckology than anything else.

Only one country in the six nations with a population of over sixty million.

Frank Lee Midere · 16-03-2014 05:16PM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Is the fashion to sneer at "middle-of-the-road people who live in the suburbs" or people who are a bit quirky and "hipster"? I can never keep up. I thought it was the latter for a good while.

On AH it's fashionable to sneer at the rich, the upper middle and middle income groups who like rugby, boggers who like the gah; chavs, skangers and working class people who like soccer, hipsters and Apple users.

Sport hating geeks who use android are ok.

This may be explained by the demographics.

Frank Lee Midere · 16-03-2014 05:18PM

RollieFingers wrote: »

Liverpool just put in the sporting performance of the weekend

You mean the "game" where some guy scored two penalties and missed one against a team in rapid decline. That really has the hearts pounding.

Frank Lee Midere · 16-03-2014 05:21PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Only one country in the six nations with a population of over sixty million.

Two. And England is near enough at 57.

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