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Post by oleandermedian on Nov 26, 2020 10:29:37 GMT
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.
At my school the boys got two compulsory years of rugby and then we could choose between rugby and hockey, so all the oddballs, misfits, slackers, poseurs, bespectacled wimps etc. decamped to the pitches with the plausible goalposts. I liked hockey much better, I must say.
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Post by tory on Nov 26, 2020 10:33:00 GMT
I'm left-handed and remember my hockey teacher, a balding Ian Marsh who had a predilection for very tight shorts that made his enormous calves stand out, saying "we don't play left-handed!". Well fuck you Mr Marsh.
I have to say I didn't mind hockey either, but seeing a boy get a stick in the mouth in the first game meant I never really took to it fulsomely.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Nov 26, 2020 10:37:52 GMT
i loathe the game. thuggery played by fatties. like others, i was made to play it at school despite football being the most popular winter sport by far. i had to join a local youth club to play football competitively. of course, as others have noted, it was a legitimate opportunity for sadist teachers to give pupils a beating. i ended up playing truant during PE.
i also love it when England do badly at rugby.
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Post by tory on Nov 26, 2020 10:42:20 GMT
When England play in the Rugby World Cup it does give football fans an insight into how non-football fans feel when a (proper) World Cup is on.
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Post by rayge on Nov 26, 2020 11:23:09 GMT
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. Me too. Far more entertaining sport than Bugry Onion, which is (or at least was, they're always tinkering with the laws) basically repressed homosexuality with an incomprehensible offside law. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 13:21:28 GMT
I wasn't one for fights, bundling Bundling ? |
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Post by tory on Nov 26, 2020 13:35:50 GMT
Having a bundle..maybe it's a southern thing.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 26, 2020 14:07:50 GMT
"Rugby cunt" is a shorthand the lass and I have for particular kind of modern guy....the kinda fella who has really middle of the road tastes, is into his looks and is well maintained but, like, not in a "gay" way, loves his IPA's and real ale (believes himself to be an "expert") and thinks a beard is a substitute for a fucking personality. You know the kind. There's a lot of these ruddy cheeked arseholes as you can imagine in Edinburgh.
I know someone who used to in Gorgie near Tynecastle for years and he said he never encountered any problems with footy fans only rugby ones coming back from Murrayfield.
Middle class, innit? The worst.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 16:09:42 GMT
The comments on here are all about a very English perception of rugby. It's quite different in Wales.
This was Phil Bennett's speech before Wales played England in 1977. Bennett is the maestro who executed all the dizzying sidesteps in the video I posted earlier.
Look what these bastards have done to Wales. They've taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our homes and live in them for a fortnight every year. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We've been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English — and that's who you are playing this afternoon.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 16:23:19 GMT
I think people, some maybe, consider england 'britian', the same way the yanks think europe is one country and not made up of different countries.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Nov 26, 2020 16:25:50 GMT
I've never played it, but it looks like fun. A friend of mine played club rugby in college and liked it a lot, but then he played football in high school and is 6' 4".
Another sport I would have liked to try is lacrosse.
Jim Brown, who was the best American football player the game has ever known, discovered lacross in college in Syracuse and is in two hall of fames - American football and lacrosse.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 26, 2020 16:33:42 GMT
The comments on here are all about a very English perception of rugby. It's quite different in Wales. This was Phil Bennett's speech before Wales played England in 1977. Bennett is the maestro who executed all the dizzying sidesteps in the video I posted earlier. Look what these bastards have done to Wales. They've taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our homes and live in them for a fortnight every year. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We've been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English — and that's who you are playing this afternoon.Just another reason to dislike the Welsh really.... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 16:38:13 GMT
The comments on here are all about a very English perception of rugby. It's quite different in Wales. This was Phil Bennett's speech before Wales played England in 1977. Bennett is the maestro who executed all the dizzying sidesteps in the video I posted earlier. Look what these bastards have done to Wales. They've taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our homes and live in them for a fortnight every year. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We've been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English — and that's who you are playing this afternoon.Just another reason to dislike the Welsh really.... Except for  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 17:56:46 GMT
You would get fucked off by that God awful voice after a day Markus. Pretty girl.Awful accent.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 18:03:38 GMT
You would get fucked off by that God awful voice after a day Markus. Pretty girl.Awful accent. Ah i don't mind a welsh accent, not as sexy as light scottish accent but still.... |
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