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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 21:36:08 GMT
I have to laugh a boys that hate rugby that went to a rugby school, or a school that happens to play rugby. The disdain is just immense. It's like if they played football or table tennis they'd be like i hate it but meh. It's mostly down to the physicality aspect but the hate for rugby after is just intense. I went to uni with a guy that got recruited by a rugby school. He played but wasn't serious about it. The thing is he reckons he was 6'4 since he was 14 and was always filled out. That's whst the uni saw. He said he did try incase they took away his scholarship but he just wasn't that good. By the time i met hime, he was in to limp biscuit type music, hash and computers. This was early 2000's. He was a big hoor but friendly.
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Post by DarknessFish on Nov 25, 2020 21:36:14 GMT
I'm a Latics fan! There is no love lost between the football and rugby teams, there are some fans who'd string me up for acknowledging the existence of egg chasing.
And I grew up within spitting distance of a then top-class union team in Orrell.
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Post by oleandermedian on Nov 25, 2020 21:36:27 GMT
And then there was Subbuteo rugby! One of the worst games ever – it was impossible to score a try on account of the must-pass-back rule and the game had to be withdrawn as irate, box-waving parents laid siege to Woolies stores all across the Home Counties and the whole thing degenerated into a national fiasco.
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Post by tory on Nov 25, 2020 21:37:10 GMT
Subbuteo was invented in the village next to me.
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Post by fange on Nov 25, 2020 21:51:36 GMT
lol. Don't say shit like that to a person grew up in NSW or Queensland, G. But what about the rest of Australia? Yeah, as Heif says, Australian Rules football is the most popular football code across the country as a whole. It began in Victoria in the mid-1800s, and spread to become the predominant winter sport in all the states and territories except Qld and NSW (although many of the NSW towns close to the Vic border have traditionally played Aussie Rules too, like Wagga Wagga). Aussie Rules has a close connection to an indigenous sport called Marngrook, which many of the local Victorian tribes played. A ball of possum fur was used.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 21:53:45 GMT
I've never been exposed to it much, other than disliking it in PE. Neither code is popular here. I knew some Falcons fans (union) when I lived in Northumberland but that's it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 21:59:59 GMT
Aussie rules is loathed here in eire, youse keep trying to nick our best gaa players.
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Post by rayge on Nov 25, 2020 22:49:48 GMT
Bugry is indefensible. I used to have a whole routine;schtick about it, but everyone here apart from the Weshman (figures) have done the job for me. As a boy genius, I skipped a couple of years in school, and found myself as a 14-year-old going through a late puberty sharing cold-water changing rooms with filthy 16-year-olds. You can imagine how much fun that was for me.
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Post by fange on Nov 26, 2020 0:25:39 GMT
Aussie rules is loathed here in eire, youse keep trying to nick our best gaa players. I can imagine, but the lure of living in Australia and getting paid very nice coin as young man to play sports is hard to ignore. The Gaelic skills are very easily transferable, the Irish boys have a good crack.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 0:36:33 GMT
Aussie rules is loathed here in eire, youse keep trying to nick our best gaa players. I can imagine, but the lure of living in Australia and getting paid very nice coin as young man to play sports is hard to ignore. The Gaelic skills are very easily transferable, the Irish boys have a good crack. Hahaha if you actually meant that misuse of the word craic, fair play. But what's a rookie contract in the AFL? Then what's the average salary for a mid level player?
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Post by fange on Nov 26, 2020 1:37:47 GMT
Yeah, i did mean the crack/craic pun. The salaries are basic for starters, but again, not bad for a young Irish kid wanting to live in Australia and try become a pro sportsman... "The average player's salary is $363,000. At the bottom end of the scale are the rookies. A first-year rookie earns $85,000 and match payments of a standard $5000 a game. These are the most speculative players – a lot of them don't play AFL games so don't earn match payments."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 1:58:07 GMT
Thats good enough money to be fair. As long as you know it's only for a few years. Home sickness and the want to win an all Ireland seems to be the biggest calling home. But nice weather, possibly nicer women is a big attraction.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 26, 2020 8:58:27 GMT
But what about the rest of Australia? Yeah, as Heif says, Australian Rules football is the most popular football code across the country as a whole. It began in Victoria in the mid-1800s, and spread to become the predominant winter sport in all the states and territories except Qld and NSW (although many of the NSW towns close to the Vic border have traditionally played Aussie Rules too, like Wagga Wagga). Aussie Rules has a close connection to an indigenous sport called Marngrook, which many of the local Victorian tribes played. A ball of possum fur was used. They used to show Aussie rules over here. Saturday mornings I think...highlight show. I enjoyed it.
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Post by tory on Nov 26, 2020 9:08:56 GMT
I enjoyed watching Aussie Rules when I lived out there. Was a brief Essendon Bombers fan, mostly because I liked the name and the black and red kit. It's a faintly ludicrous game in all fairness, but it is also incredibly demanding, particularly as the ball is obviously subject to huge amounts of randomness that requires superb agility to deal with. Loved a bit of Dipper too - a legend
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Post by tory on Nov 26, 2020 9:20:22 GMT
As for Rugby... well, I had to play it as a boy at school. I was small for my age, which had advantages, but in general, more disadvantages. As a kid I grew up without close contact from, say, a brother or sister of a similar age, and was not used to close physical contact in some respects. I wasn't one for fights, bundling or other activity in general and so took a massive dislike to it early on. Just because I was at a school where not being good at sport was frowned upon, I became quite good at it as a winger due to my speed and low centre of gravity around 13/14 and moved in one game from the "C" team to the "A" team. I remember being approached by the head coach after scoring around 10 tries in a game and him saying "A or B team?" - B wasn't an option although I had erred towards it because I was less likely to get pummelled.
Spent a couple of years playing for the school, but in general I never understood the rules particularly well, didn't get the scrum notion at all and was bemused by the sheer archaic nature of the gsme, when football seemed to be so much more an obviously better sport.
Nowadays, I don't quite have the vitriol for the game. In general the professionalisation, for want of a better phrase, has, to a certain extent moved it beyond the realm of the public school types. In my last year of sharing houses I spent six months living with a guy who had one book on his shelf called "Turbo Marketing" and idolised Rugby. He was a complete twat.
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