2014 reasons to hate Six Nations rugby weekends

Sport
1
  1. Marian Finucane’s South Dublin Coffee morning review of “the match”.
  2. Miriam O’Callaghan bringing the conversation with her guest on to rugby on her Sunday morning radio show.
  3. Eoin McDevitt and Ciaran Murphy’s sycophancy as they introduce their podcast the following Monday.
  4. Shane Horgan talking as if he has a clothes peg over his nose.
  5. Green plastic flags.
  6. Seeing a well dressed young woman at a bus stop and immediately realising she is attending “the match”.
  7. Overhearing a telephone call of said well-dressed young woman which proves your suspicions correct.
  8. Ryle Nugent.
  9. Conor O’Shea.
  10. People who call Conor O’Shea a “shrewd operator”.
  11. The faux bombast of the music on RTE’s Six Nations coverage.
  12. The public address announcer at Lansdowne Road.
  13. “The atmosphere was amazing”.
  14. GAA players writing Twitter messages about “the match”.
  15. Keith Wood.
  16. Conor Pope and Shane Hegarty tweeting about “the match”.
  17. Media assertions that “the whole country was watching”.
  18. People putting up photos on Facebook of the food they had for lunch before attending “the match”.
  19. The appalling design and aesthetic of modern rugby jerseys.
  20. Guinness branded rugby-themed stickers framing the glass panels of the windows of pubs.
  21. The appalling musical taste of rugby supporters.
  22. Michael Corcoran.
  23. Fat men with bleached teeth.
  24. Ugly women with bleached teeth.
  25. RTE’s appeals to people to support the Irish women’s rugby team.
2
  1. Tom McGuirk. The cunt.
3
  1. Beating an Italian or Scottish pub team and it being heralded as some sort of achievement.
  2. Every two bob cunt who has had any involvement with rugby football wheeled out to give their opinions (Trevor Hogan, Bernard Jackman, Liam Toland etc)
4

29.Brian " im a vile cunt whose pathetic career will be defined by my bitching when I got roughed up in NZ & dropped in Oz while representing her majesty" O’Driscoll

5
  1. Overhearing rugby supporters talking admiringly about Rory McIlpube.
  2. Assertions from media pundits and rugby supporters that “our players are world class”.
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28. Every two bob cunt who has had any involvement with rugby football wheeled out to give their opinions (Trevor Hogan, Bernard Jackman, Liam Toland etc)[/quote]

Probably best you don’t switch on The Sunday Game this year if this is rankling you.

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32, arsehols like carryharry & horsebox loving the sport

8
  1. Ireland’s Call
9
  1. A simple throw of the ball from one person to another two yards away being lauded as “great hands”
10
  1. Players fronting up.
11
  1. Flames in the centre of the pitch.
  2. Referee radio links.
  3. Being called unpatriotic by Fine Gael-voting cunts because you refuse to take part in this sham.
12
  1. The glorification of winning tbe triple crown i.e losing the championship so in effect its as worthwhile as a gold medal in the special olympics
13
  1. The fact there only seems to be about 4 international referees whose nauseating accents we are subjected to regularly.
14

The focking Kearnivours

15
  1. Being subjected to repeated showings of an advert with someone with intellectual disability trying to flog berocca
16
  1. People who write “Superman wears Paul O’Connell pyjamas” on social networking websites, and thinking they’re funny. Wrong on so many levels.
17
  1. TFK being swamped for days by gimps repeating the same jokes and whining the same arguments about a sport they don’t like yet spend parts of their lives discussing ad nauseum.
18
  1. Followers of minority sport rugby whining when people mock their beloved pastime
19
  1. RTE pundits saying Italy have made “massive strides”. Every year they say it. And they’re still just as shit as they were when they first played in the competition.
20
  1. Loads of poster jumping on an anti bandwagon bandwagon