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  • #302
    Iscreamkone
    Registered Users Posts: 703 ✭✭✭Iscreamkone


    What about the lads who hush you when a penalty is being taken? .... in the pub.


  • #303
    Hego Damask
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    GreenandRed wrote: »
    What do you consider to be a sport?

    I would consider any activity that requires fitness and skill.

    Some of these rugby lads look fatter than Rick Waller - skill ? running and knocking people over with pure momentum - any fat guy could be a "world class" rugby player.
    Nonsense game.

    Golf I wouldn't consider a sport either, it is skilled sure, but you have fat old men winning PGA world tours ffs...


  • #304
    Earleybird
    Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭Earleybird


    Iscreamkone wrote: »
    What about the lads who hush you when a penalty is being taken? .... in the pub.

    Haha, that is one of the most ridiculous things ever. "show respect". Jesus wept.


  • #305
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Hego Damask wrote: »
    I would consider any activity that requires fitness and skill.

    Some of these rugby lads look fatter than Rick Waller - skill ? running and knocking people over with pure momentum - any fat guy could be a "world class" rugby player.
    Nonsense game.

    Golf I wouldn't consider a sport either, it is skilled sure, but you have fat old men winning PGA world tours ffs...

    Ah, here... I hate rugby as much as others pretend to like it. But it is a sport. As is golf, which I also hate. It's possible to dislike a sport without needing to pretend that it isn't one.


  • #306
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Donnielighto wrote: »
    The GAA get trounced if we play the Aussies in international rules, want to start having pops at them?

    The coverage was over the top but that isn't unique to rugby, it's any sport we are seen to be doing well in.

    Ireland have won more than lost against the aussies, the aussies usually have to resort to outright thuggery in order to win

    That event has been dead for years anyway


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  • #307
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Yeah_Right wrote: »
    Come on mate. I apologised for hooking up with your girl. It was a one night stand. No need to slag off my whole country for it.

    My girl doesn't understand mangled English so you were sh1t out of luck from the start


  • #308
    nkl12xtw5goz70
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭nkl12xtw5goz70


    Hego Damask wrote: »
    running and knocking people over with pure momentum - any fat guy could be a "world class" rugby player.

    If that's true, surely you can list off lots of fat world-class rugby players.

    Examples...?


  • #309
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Genesis Orange Mimosa wrote: »
    If that's true, surely you can list off lots of fat world-class rugby players.

    Examples...?

    Cian healy has always been fat

    Whether he is "world class", I'm not so sure


  • #310
    begsbyOnaTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭begsbyOnaTrain


    Iscreamkone wrote: »
    What about the lads who hush you when a penalty is being taken? .... in the pub.

    An awed hush descends across the country. Just the sound of respect and Ryle Nugent's self pleasure are broadcast, as Johnny Sexy carefully places the ball.

    I laughed and laughed at the result. There's only a handful of teams who play the the sport and yet the shoulder-to-shoulder boys still can't get the quarters :pac:


  • #311
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Keith Wood was a fat world class player.


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  • #312
    jr86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭jr86


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Cian healy has always been fat

    Whether he is "world class", I'm not so sure

    Cian Healy has a body fat percentage of about 10%.

    You'd be incredibly hard pressed to find any "fat" top rugby player tbh. They would all be on strict diets and their fat levels monitored on a weekly basis.

    Even prop forwards would be required to be between about 12 and 14% on the bodyfat scale. Very few backs will be over 10% barring an odd exception like Bastaureud


  • #313
    ThunbergsAreGo
    Registered Users Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭ThunbergsAreGo


    As a few in here have said, not a rugby can at all but the level of hatred on here is incredible.

    It's a very accessible bandwagon sport that we happen to be top half in the world at.


  • #314
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    jr86 wrote: »
    Cian Healy has a body fat percentage of about 10%.

    You'd be incredibly hard pressed to find any "fat" top rugby player tbh. They would all be on strict diets and their fat levels monitored on a weekly basis.

    Even prop forwards would be required to be between about 12 and 14% on the bodyfat scale. Very few backs will be over 10% barring an odd exception like Bastaureud
    His body fat percentage has ranged between 11 and 19 percent. 19% isn't fat but isn't classed as fit either.


  • #315
    Iscreamkone
    Registered Users Posts: 703 ✭✭✭Iscreamkone


    ThunbergsAreGo wrote: »
    As a few in here have said, not a rugby can at all but the level of hatred on here is incredible.

    It's a very accessible bandwagon sport that we happen to be top half in the world at.

    8th best out of 10....again!

    The rest are rank amateur pub sides, and tiny countries.
    Samoa has the same population as Co. Limerick.
    Tonga has a population less than Co. Waterford.
    Fiji population 900,000.


  • #316
    doughef
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭doughef


    The rugby team are a sham .

    Glad they got called out on it for once .

    I hope this disgrace knocks back the association 50 years, and they have to endure decades more of misery ...

    I also hope they never win a game again


  • #317
    begsbyOnaTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭begsbyOnaTrain


    Iscreamkone wrote: »
    8th best out of 10....again!

    Yeah but once they beat NZ in a friendly... It was the greatest sporting achievement of all time. Apparently.


  • #318
    jr86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭jr86


    Luke Plump Gymnasium wrote: »
    His body fat percentage has ranged between 11 and 19 percent. 19% isn't fat but isn't classed as fit either.

    Healy?

    I would be beyond amazed if he was anywhere near 19% bodyfat at any stage in season (not injured)


  • #319
    Danthemanhere
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 277 ✭✭Danthemanhere


    I think the problems arise because many Irish people can't connect with rugby players. Private schools and all that and then some of their behaviour off the field. The sexual stuff has been well publicised, pissing on people and all of that. Maybe that's part of the problem?


  • #320
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Danthemanhere wrote: »
    I think the problems arise because many Irish people can't connect with rugby players. Private schools and all that and then some of their behaviour off the field. The sexual stuff has been well publicised, pissing on people and all of that. Maybe that's part of the problem?
    Pissing on people is ok so long as they are adults and consenting .


  • #321
    Danthemanhere
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 277 ✭✭Danthemanhere


    blinding wrote: »
    Pissing on people is ok so long as they are adults and consenting .

    I don't think the pissee was consenting!


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  • #322
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    jr86 wrote: »
    Healy?

    I would be beyond amazed if he was anywhere near 19% bodyfat at any stage in season (not injured)
    prepare to be beyond amazed

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.irishexaminer.com/sport/rugby/how-cian-healy-used-post-it-notes-to-save-his-career-464356.html


  • #323
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Danthemanhere wrote: »
    I don't think the pissee was consenting!
    And no water proof pockets ! Amateur stuff for a rugby man !:eek:


  • #324
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Danthemanhere wrote: »
    I think the problems arise because many Irish people can't connect with rugby players. Private schools and all that and then some of their behaviour off the field. The sexual stuff has been well publicised, pissing on people and all of that. Maybe that's part of the problem?
    Pissing on people. They are used to that in Clongowes where the punishment is a spanking by Nanny.


  • #325
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    At least we still have the soccer team
    Edgware wrote: »
    Anther crowd of over rated ****

    Not to mention over paid.

    Next time you see the Irish soccer team standing around like the mannequins on a Foozball table and watch the ball ricochet around them with all the control of a car crash, consider the fact that none of those semi-skilled journeymen are earning less than a million quid a year.
    (or £20,000 a week if you insist on pretending that they are paid a working class wage in used fivers through the accounts hatch every Friday)

    "Rugby is a game for gentlemen of all classes"


  • #326
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Edgware wrote: »
    Pissing on people. They are used to that in Clongowes where the punishment is a spanking by Nanny.
    Is nanny a looker ?


  • #327
    terrydel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,881 ✭✭✭terrydel


    Montage of Feck wrote: »
    That's just marketing nonsense from Vodafone, I'm hopeful must people ignore such dross.

    As evidenced by the few dozen people at the airport yesterday, teamofus is only when they win it seems.


  • #328
    terrydel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,881 ✭✭✭terrydel


    Snickers Man wrote: »
    Not to mention over paid.

    Next time you see the Irish soccer team standing around like the mannequins on a Foozball table and watch the ball ricochet around them with all the control of a car crash, consider the fact that none of those semi-skilled journeymen are earning less than a million quid a year.
    (or £20,000 a week if you insist on pretending that they are paid a working class wage in used fivers through the accounts hatch every Friday)

    "Rugby is a game for gentlemen of all classes"

    Its gas that the professional classes and market economy types who tend to make up the rugby supporting fraternity, tend to ignore the fact that soccer players are paid like that because of those very same market forces that you all bow down to. Its vastly more popular than your minority sport with its 8 nations worth mentioning, thus it generates many multiples more money to distribute amongst those lucky enough to be able to play it professionally.


  • #329
    terrydel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,881 ✭✭✭terrydel


    Iscreamkone wrote: »
    8th best out of 10....again!

    The rest are rank amateur pub sides, and tiny countries.
    Samoa has the same population as Co. Limerick.
    Tonga has a population less than Co. Waterford.
    Fiji population 900,000.

    Ten is being generous.
    Its an irrelevance as a world game.


  • #330
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    The fans let themselves down by booing during the Haka, you would have thought they would have been told when they were going to their private school that it's bad manners to do someting like that.

    All of a sudden you're an expert:rolleyes:

    I didn't hear any booing; I heard the Fields of Athenry being belted out, which I thought was great. I'm fine with the All Blacks doing the haka but they have no right to demand how other people react to it. It's a challenge, it can be met with a response.

    The Irish fans singing their hearts out in reply was a great response. We should do it again. Next time.


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  • #331
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    terrydel wrote: »
    Its gas that the professional classes and market economy types who tend to make up the rugby supporting fraternity, tend to ignore the fact that soccer players are paid like that because of those very same market forces that you all bow down to.

    "The rain falls on prince and pauper alike"

    We're all "market economy types"; the forces act on all of us and we have to adapt as best we can. It's not a question of "bowing down to them". This whole thread is about the affection and respect one feels is deserved of those who represent us internationally.

    I like soccer but I prefer the Irish rugby team. Always have.

    They're just better people. Regardless of their class.


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