Rugby

[Y 2 Jake]

How come nobody likes it usually but they do now? A woman I know is suddenly saying it's the best sport ever, better than football. She's said she's been a fan forever and yet she's never mentioned it before. I hope England win, but rugby still bores me.

 

[Luther_Hull]

It's the same reason we all liked cricket two years ago. 'Cos we're doing alright in it.

 

[Luther_Hull]

Oh and rugby players work so much harder than those poncey footballers.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

It's the same reason we all liked cricket two years ago. 'Cos we're doing alright in it.

Speak for yourself. Cricket is worse than rugby.

 

[Shadowmancer]

Well England Lost and It was a Crap game. penaltys for the points, Great Idea for a game. The All Blacks would have beaten South Africa if they were there.

 

[Downward Spiral]

This is exactly what happened with Soccer the last World Cup over here. No one gave a shit about it, until we scraped into the world cup. Suddenly, it's 'soccer this! Soccer that!' and some had the audacity to say that they 'were always behind the Socceroos' and always watched the ridiculous sport. Hey people, we won one game in the World Cup!!!!!!!! We Australians must all parade around as if we are soccer legends! Who'd we beat? Japan. Wow. Then we lost, and Australia had to jump off the bandwagon for safety as it flew over the cliff.

I'm sure that's the way England was this morning when they lost. But for now, it's South Africa's favourite sport for a few months, until they start losing again like England did after they won. Sigh. Soccer and Rugby are the worst games ever...so overrated. One is for pompous, wimpy, overpaid pricks, and the other is where a group of high school dropouts and IQ failures can congregate and grope eachother while going absolutely nowhere. Although by the looks of it, rugby seems to have the 'soccer' stereotypical player being incorporated amongst them as well...

At least cricket is somewhat manlier than soccer (it's not that hard) but a much more...intellectual, if you will, game, than Rugby is, (which like the former, is not hard to achieve.) Test cricket is for tragics (or addicts/incredibly serious fans for you Americans) who enjoy sitting down and watching 30 hours of cricket over 5 days, whilst One Day Cricket is for the slightly less serious fan, who enjoys seeing tight games and a few big hits. Twenty20 cricket is for those idiotic, attentionless fans that the world seems to have become populated with. You can only watch a bowler get smashed for so long....

Sorry for going off on a rant like this. But...haven't done it for a while and it's good for the exercise.

 

[Shadowmancer]

Nothing Wrong with Test Cricket. i watch Days of it Never the Entire Test But Days. Rugby is not for Dumbasses as you fairly simply put it. There is more to it than that and you should see it when the new Rules are put into effect as it will stop the European Teams from being the Boring old teams they usually are. And DS Rugby is one of South Africa's big Sports they are like New Zealand and wales when it comes to Rugby.

 

[Downward Spiral]

I don't know what you meant when you said 'Rugby isn't for dumbasses'. If you took my previous comment as an insult to the watchers of the game, please don't, it's just that the stereotypical player seems to fit that bill (case and point, Martin Johnson, or Frankenstein's Monster.)

Ah, I thought South Africa were more a cricket nation. Didn't think it was too big over there.

And to tell you the truth, one rule I think they should have in rugby, is developing something like the Rugby League ten metre rule, where during the ruck/play the ball, the opposing team must stay ten metres away from that area before rushing in. Not to say it has to be that big, because that would be utterly pointless, but maybe 3-5 metres at least. That will keep it interesting instead of having everyone bunched up for minutes going nowhere. I enjoy the New Zealand/Australia games for what they are: good, fierce rivalry games. But when it comes down to it, rugby is just too bland these days.

Also Shadow, are the whole of New Zealand blowing up over the fact that all their best players were 'rested' for the world cup and didn't play in the Super 14? "No, no, we have to rest them! We can't have them playing, the World Cup is too important!" Seems like a big, big waste considering they didn't make it past the Quarters. Then again, Australia did the same thing, so I criticise them as well.

 

[Shadowmancer]

I don't want to get into that as I will be agreeing with some and disagreeing with others. Over the Whole Country actually. It is a big thing but I will see the results of the full debriefing that the NZRFU are going to be doing. English and European Rugby has no Personality that is why you have the martin Johnsons the job is to push the ball into kicking range for Johnny "Fucking" Wilkinson and win the game with no attacking Rugby. Fucking European Club teams are forcing down crap stratgey and what do we get the most boring World Cup Final Ever. Fucking Wayne Barnes.