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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 18:52:49 GMT
It's boring, monotonous, uninventive and once you get passed the impressive physicality of it, it's shit. I do love listening to the pundits talk tactics, i find it funny. They talk like if one team doesn't do this particular thing, this one most important chess like move, then it's the end of the world. Then you find out all they mean is they want the token fat juck to clear the ruck quicker for the fly half or whoever to move the ball. They try to build the sport up more than what it is. I'm talking about union, haven't watched the other codes.
It is a sport that should be more popular world wide but it seems stuck in strength and brutality than skill.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 18:54:02 GMT
It's good for men confused about their sexual preference.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 25, 2020 18:55:53 GMT
Played by cunts, watched by cunts
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 19:00:14 GMT
That stereotype of the guy that played rugby for 5 minutes at a 'rugby secondary school" therefore an expert is very very very truth. " That's right aye? they shoulda kicked for touch? good to know, only had that rugby rig in a medium did they?" ya fat cunt.
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Post by oh oooh on Nov 25, 2020 19:21:11 GMT
I still have moments of mild anger when thinking back to how we lads HAD to play rugby at school. I fucking hated it. You'd get your nose squashed into the cold mud, bruised legs, cunt PE teachers standing on the sidelines chuckling at the scene.
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Post by oh oooh on Nov 25, 2020 19:29:26 GMT
My uncle coached St. Helens in the 60s (their 'golden era', apparently) St Helens made it a quadruplet of Lancashire Cup successes with wins against Leigh in 1964,[74] and once more Swinton in 1965, this time under coach Joe Coan.[75] The 1965 New Zealand tourists appeared at Knowsley Road on Wednesday 15 September. Saints inflicted a 28–7 defeat on their visitors,[76] their biggest loss of the tour. A League[77] and Cup[5][78] double was achieved under Coan in the 1965–66 season, whilst they lost the Floodlit Trophy final against Castleford.[79] St Helens were beaten by Wakefield Trinity in the 1967 Rugby Football League Championship Final at Station Road, Swinton on 10 May 1967 by 20 points to 9 in a replay,[80] after a 7–7 draw 4 days earlier.[81] This would be Coan's last year in charge at St Helens after a highly successful period as boss. He was replaced by Cliff Evans.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_St_Helens_R.F.C.#Post_war_and_the_successful_1960s_(1945%E2%80%941996)
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Post by The Red Heifer on Nov 25, 2020 19:39:16 GMT
Rugby League i can defend easily, it's my favourite sport and the mix of physicality and athletic brilliance at its peak is incredible. Rugby Union, however, i cannot.
For a starters the 4 extra people on the field immediately makes the open space harder to find, the pick and drive can be incredibly boring and the reliance on penalty goals as a method of scoring is tedious in the extreme. I've watched two Rugby Union games in 2 weeks (i even fucking went to one as to make my All Blacks supporting wife feel good), the Australia Argentina game was a 15 all draw, all penalty goals. That might fly in the Northern Hemisphere, but down here uts leading to calls about the viability of the sport.
Of course there's also the moral reasons to not support Union, like then collaborating with the Nazis in WWII to have Rugby League banned in France when it was soaring in popularity in the country, strong arming governments with their baffling amount of influence to not recognise Rugby League as a sport (or having it ran by completely different sports like Modern Pentathlon in Greece) and even having attempted organisers jailed (UAE and Morocco for starters).
Also the fact that in Australia and England at the very least its the domain of cunts with money (one of which called my cousin (and ring bearer at his sons wedding) a f****t for playing League. At the SUIT FITTING. He was 11), and those elite private schools have ALSO banned their students from playing Rugby League, if they still want to play Rugby Union. Perfectly okay to play Union and any other sport though.
And perhaps the most damning thing of all, it's Copehead's favourite sport, and who'd want to follow the same sport as that galloping dickhead?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 19:46:20 GMT
I grew up watching the great Welsh sides. What they produced was another level to the "popular culture" we usually discuss on here, a rarified expression of heroism and poetry. Incredible. Watch in awe.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 19:47:06 GMT
My uncle coached St. Helens in the 60s (their 'golden era', apparently) St Helens made it a quadruplet of Lancashire Cup successes with wins against Leigh in 1964,[74] and once more Swinton in 1965, this time under coach Joe Coan.[75] The 1965 New Zealand tourists appeared at Knowsley Road on Wednesday 15 September. Saints inflicted a 28–7 defeat on their visitors,[76] their biggest loss of the tour. A League[77] and Cup[5][78] double was achieved under Coan in the 1965–66 season, whilst they lost the Floodlit Trophy final against Castleford.[79] St Helens were beaten by Wakefield Trinity in the 1967 Rugby Football League Championship Final at Station Road, Swinton on 10 May 1967 by 20 points to 9 in a replay,[80] after a 7–7 draw 4 days earlier.[81] This would be Coan's last year in charge at St Helens after a highly successful period as boss. He was replaced by Cliff Evans.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_St_Helens_R.F.C.#Post_war_and_the_successful_1960s_(1945%E2%80%941996)They're a rugby league team i think. I think that code is a bit more exciting.
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Post by The Red Heifer on Nov 25, 2020 20:03:49 GMT
They're a rugby league team i think. I think that code is a bit more exciting. A good thing about England is no matter what the code is, its just "Rugby", yet you just know what they mean judging by who they are and where they're from. I knew John was referring to League because he's from Whitehaven, and you were referring to Union because that's what's large in Ireland (I do have two Ireland RL jerseys though which are things of beauty). In Australia if someone says "Rugby" without the differentiation I assume they're an Australian Rules fan or a Victorian (one and the same really)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 20:06:31 GMT
There's no country in the world where League is more popular than Union.
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Post by The Red Heifer on Nov 25, 2020 20:09:40 GMT
I live in one but that wasn't even the point I was making.
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Post by fange on Nov 25, 2020 20:15:58 GMT
lol. Don't say shit like that to a person grew up in NSW or Queensland, G.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 20:16:41 GMT
There's no country in the world where League is more popular than Union. Australia no?
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Post by The Red Heifer on Nov 25, 2020 20:17:43 GMT
There's no country in the world where League is more popular than Union. Australia no? Union is in such dire straits here their 22-all draw with New Zealand was celebrated like a World Cup win.
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