[Gap]

"Away in his manger, no room for his head, little lord Jesus sat up and he said... BARRRRRRRRTH! BARRRRRRRRRTH!"

Heh', i love drunks at the rugby. Anyhow, Rugby is a man's sport: it requires you to be able to take a battering without weeping like a woose alongside skill.

[ipulledhermione]

(Original post by meskell)
I've never thought of that before, your theory intrigues me

(Btw, I only just noticed your name+location and it appaears my first reply of witch is the most likely to be true )

My back is sore or I would indulge you with details of my aforementioned theory on witches trolling like there's no tomorrow.


Yes I izz a witch...I haz a wand and all

[Phalanges]

(Original post by Kash:))
Very old saying

It's age merely reflects it's pertinence.

(Original post by Don John)
They're also easily 1.5*the weights of some footballers, and when they're running full pelt at each other it's easy to excuse them.

So it's easy to excuse rugby players but not footballers who are running at similar paces and agilities where the slightest touch can knock them off balance?

It's almost as if you are biased.

[Banburyhammer]

(Original post by Awesome-o)
I'll watch rugby ever time 6 nations comes around (whihc is probably just as much as 95% of rugby "fans" out there). It's ok but the game just doesn't flow. If it's not mall, ruck, ruck, hold the game up.... wait for the ball..... wait for it..... wait forit, then it's kick, kick, kick, mistake, penalty. And don't get me started on the scum. What a bizarre forced formation that is. If they got rid of it rugby union would be much better. Inevitably they will have to be reset 3 times before proceeding.

For proper flowing rugby you need to watch the super 14 and tri nation tounaments, northern hemisphere rugby is unfortuantely at the moment miles behing the southern hemisphere teams, I could make a case if Argentina were to enter the six nations, that they would win a grand slam at the first attempt.

(Original post by hypocriticaljap)
Rugby, particularly union, is a boring game played by middle class yobs who's idea of fun is to kick the ball into the car park as soon as they get it. At least half the team on a rugby field are obese, fat monsters who would have a heart attack before half time if they were forced to keep up in a football game. In my experience rugby and misogyny seem inextricably linked as well.

Haha, youve clearly just seen the front row in passing on tv and assumed thats all rugby players. But seriously, football and rugby have different skills sets, even differeing positions in union reqiure hugely different skills.

Have you actually considered what it is like to play rugby for a considerable period of time?. I have, as a back, and its hard, and this was just in pe lessons. I prefer football, and that needs great stamina, but union needs stamina and endurance.

Oh and yeah, Lawrence Dallaligho, his training routine used to include sprints while dragging a minimum 20 kg weight by a rope tied around his waist.

Obese indeed...

Anyway, as far as im concerned football is better for me because i just have a passion for it that i just dont with union, i dont really follow a club rugby team. Football is also so much more accesible, and by that i dont mean ticket prices or anything like that, its just so much easier to have a kickaround with your mates as opposed to having to organise a game of rugby.

[BandManDan]

(Original post by Rinsed)


Versus



I think the answer is clear.

brilliant!!

[Afcwimbledon2]

(Original post by talon1579)
No, its state school vs private.

Uh no - I play for a club and I'm a state schooler - its not as posh as you think. Most of the squad go to state schools and its about the same everywhere.

TBH as a player of both sports - Rugby is definitely alot better in general - there's more support, more friendship, and also more fun. I mean who else gets to pratically knock someone out legally?

[letsdothetimewarpagain]

I much prefer rugby, football seems to be a bit wimpish with the odd exception obviously as nasty incidents do happen in it. Plus rugby is far more interesting and fun to watch.

[Phalanges]

(Original post by Afcwimbledon2)
I mean who else gets to pratically knock someone out legally?

Boxers, UFC fighters, bouncers...

It's a wonderful crowd to mix with.

[BandManDan]

(Original post by Kash:))
So many stupid posts on this thread.

Pointless ones too

[reems23]

Tbf, being kicked in the shin ******* hurts.

[Afcwimbledon2]

(Original post by Phalanges)
Boxers, UFC fighters, bouncers...

It's a wonderful crowd to mix with.

Mmm but with boxing and UFC - no team work, bouncers is a job not a hobby/sport.

[Wesssty]

Handball > all your silly sports.

[Phalanges]

Give that the single most horrific injury I have ever seen (via youtube) occurred on a football pitch, it's slightly odd that football is decried so rapidly as a wimpy sport.

[jessiainscough]

(Original post by reems23)
Tbf, being kicked in the shin ******* hurts.

But being raked on the shins, stamped on every part of the body, head clashes etc hurt more

[lm_wfc]

(Original post by Phalanges)
Football is a game for gentlemen played by hooligans. Rugby is a game for hooligans played by gentlemen.

And american football: game for knobs played by knobs

[Clens]

(Original post by Dado Prso)
interesting sport vs crap sport.

Rugby just doesn't seem to require alot of skill.

I take it you've never tried to take a conversion from the 22y yard line, whilst its tipping it down, and crosswinds are blowing across the pitch?

Though not

Don't chat rubbish just because you have neither the coordination or balls to play a proper game.

[Phalanges]

(Original post by Clens)
Don't chat rubbish just because you have neither the coordination or balls to play a proper game.

Rugby - 30 men playing with funny shaped balls.

I'm glad that someone brought balls up in defence of rugby first.

[The Rusty Spork]

(Original post by Clens)
I take it you've never tried to take a conversion from the 22y yard line, whilst its tipping it down, and crosswinds are blowing across the pitch?

Though not

Don't chat rubbish just because you have neither the coordination or balls to play a proper game.

Tbf a conversion from the 22yard line is pretty much piss easy. And with the wind factor you should still get it pretty close. There really is no excuse if you are one of the teams designated kickers.

One of the toughest things I found was 'spinning' the ball off my boot as I was too used to striking it the way I did a football. I could still kick the ball about 3/4 of the length of the amateur pitches though so it never hindered me that much, just in extreme weather.

[LChapman]

I can watch an entire rugby match and not be bored, where as after 5 minutes of football I have to turn it off. Lets be honest at the start of a football match they barely leave the middle of the pitch as they are too busy doing little passes to one another.

Oh and a little extra thing, all the girls who have commented on here say rugby is the better sport, just something to think about.

[Dado Prso]

(Original post by Clens)
I take it you've never tried to take a conversion from the 22y yard line, whilst its tipping it down, and crosswinds are blowing across the pitch?

Though not

Don't chat rubbish just because you have neither the coordination or balls to play a proper game.

no because I don't play rugby. I prefer a sport where skill is more important than physical attributes.

Rugby just doesn't have as much skill in it as football, tennis, basketball etc. do.