The summer league of this absolutely cringeworthy joke-fest will soon be starting again and I’m embarrassed and ashamed to say I know of one person on this very forum who took part in this sad and sorry hobby in the past. I can’t think of any reason whatsoever as to why it’s acceptable to get involved in this excuse for a sport. If you want to mix with girls and awkwardly fumble around with them then go have a plethora of pints and hit the dancefloor in Copper’s. Sport is something that’s sacred and to even contemplate getting involved in a team containing girls is abhorrent and unexcusable. Then they go and mangle the rules so nobody gets hurt and it’s also sexist in that a try scored by a girl is worth more. It’s a shocking indictment of what Ireland has become.
Was it for this…? A fucking disgrace of a sport. Ashamed to say Mrs Rock is taking part this summer but at least she’s female. Any bloke playing tag rugby deserves contempt.
I know a fella that broke his arm playing this shite - was delighted for him!
the saddest thing of all about this activity (i refuse to call it a sport) is that most of the idiots who play it take it incredibly seriously. during summer there’s a rake of the coonts in herbert park every evening training for it. get a fooking life and go to the pub and drink on your own or something.
I know there is a team in work. Im not joining cause Im the most ackward person you will meet.
As Jugs mentioned, you get these packs of dickheads having tag / tip rugby training sessions and trials down in Herbert Park. We were down there one evening last summer playing hurling and they were there giving us filthy looks for playing on the pitch as if it was their property and they had the right to tell us to get off the pitch. So then the strange mixture of competitive fun boys and dykes started playing across the pitch as we whizzed the sliothar around the place. Quite sadly we didn’t connect with any of the fooks.
it’s a silly form of the game and whilst i’ve dabbled in the past, albeit making up numbers when mates were short, i’ve dispised everything it stands for. i can think of loads of dopes who take it ridiculously seriously and actually shout and others, even birds, when they fail to make a tag or something. but what angers me the most is the refs. bandage having not taken part you may not have come across them, you’ve never seen a bigger set of clowns who love themselves for having control over a game of tag. that’s what i can’t handle the most actually about the game, the stupid rules and the ridiculous wankers officiating.
In cheltenham, fcukin dying, here since monday with some clients, thank fook the racing is off as I have had enough booze and losers already
Couldnt resist posting on this but yes Tag is a fookin rubbish game, but its ingenius in that it is a rugby format that can be safely played by kids in school, in 50 years the guy who inivented tag will be up there with william webb ellis as this is what will drive the game forward and increase the playing base.
Anyways, you guys are laughing at fellas playing tag, really they are laughing at you sitting in the pub on tuesdays and thursdays during the summer when they are off playing sport and oogling women. it is by a distance the best way I have ever seen to meet women and get a bit of andy cole
Sport should not be relied upon to attract women - you’ll only end up attracting some bird who’ll want to go to matches with you and then all of sudden you’re not going on the lock anymore.
Anyway I did post on here before somewhere that I think the GAA need to look at developing some social type game to get more people playing. Thanks to astro soccer and tag rugby there’s loads of casual participation in those sports and that can only help them in the long run. A 7 a side version of football or hurling with appropriate enclosed space rules needs to be developed and marketed I think.
I don’t take your point at all Dan. Women, men and sport simply don’t mix. I think it’s more than acceptable for a bloke to ogle women competing in a diva wrestling pillow fight or a beach volleyball tournament or something but actually degrading yourself to compete in a team with them in what’s no more than a glorified form of kiss chase deserves sheer contempt and frankly a good hiding too.
Bandage I have degraded myself in a lot worse ways than playing tag rugby to get my end away…as Im quite sure you have!!!
I am in agreement about sporty women, not my bag baby although I was going out with a girl before who won a european cup in hockey (now that was a good weekend!!)But in general birds playing tag are not sporty, tag makes them feel better about sitting on there arse the rest of the year and lets them make sly grabs at my tackle outside of a nightclub environment
[quote=“dancarter”]Bandage I have degraded myself in a lot worse ways than playing tag rugby to get my end away…as Im quite sure you have!!!
I am in agreement about sporty women, not my bag baby although I was going out with a girl before who won a european cup in hockey (now that was a good weekend!!)But in general birds playing tag are not sporty, tag makes them feel better about sitting on there arse the rest of the year and lets them make sly grabs at my tackle outside of a nightclub environment[/quote]
Dan, I don’t think it’s possible to go any lower than playing tag rugby to get your end away and I hope you felt properly ashamed for weeks afterwards. You could at least have lied about your age, profession, nationality, salary, all the charity work you do or something like that to pull some stupid bint but to lower yourself to play tag / tip shocks me to the core.
Rocko, indoor hurling is played quite a bit around the country these days with a soft type ball and hurley with a rubber bs. It’s mostly in school environments though. Can you imagine a tag / tip rubgy version of Gaelic Football? 7-a-side teams consisting of 4 men and 3 women / in betweenies, each player only allowed one hop and one solo to stop the better players from dominating and monopolizing possession, non-contact rules and teams getting 6 points for a goal scored by a bird etc. Rubbish!
[quote=“Bandage”]Dan, I don’t think it’s possible to go any lower than playing tag rugby to get your end away and I hope you felt properly ashamed for weeks afterwards. You could at least have lied about your age, profession, nationality, salary, all the charity work you do or something like that to pull some stupid bint but to lower yourself to play tag / tip shocks me to the core.
Rocko, indoor hurling is played quite a bit around the country these days with a soft type ball and hurley with a rubber bs. It’s mostly in school environments though. Can you imagine a tag / tip rubgy version of Gaelic Football? 7-a-side teams consisting of 4 men and 3 women / in betweenies, each player only allowed one hop and one solo to stop the better players from dominating and monopolizing possession, non-contact rules and teams getting 6 points for a goal scored by a bird etc. Rubbish![/quote]
Never seen indoor hurling but I suppose that has merit. I take your point on tag Gaelic Football but instead of recreating tag rugby you should be trying to recreate astro soccer. Because of the limited contact you’d need a one solo, one hop rule I’d say (already in force at underage level anyway) but you wouldn’t have birds playing. Point scoring could be a problem though on normal hockey/soccer pitches with low fences.
Indoor hurling has been around for ages. I cant believe i had to partake in it as a youngster.
Just got the email in work to say the tag / tip rugby season will soon be upon us and they’re going to have trials in the next few weeks before picking the best team to compete when the league commences in March. Fooking trials for tag rugby - no wonder the banks are on their knees.
Fook sake. Trials. Its only a laugh.
Having dabbled in this “sport” some cunts take it very serious.
Cunts.
A lad I used to work with and go to the pub with a bit got sent off in tag / tip rugby for dissent. Apparently he completely lost the head over a decision and launched a tirade of abuse at the ref. In tag rugby. I don’t hang around with him anymore.
The thread started by saying the summer league is a joke, surely the whole sport is a joke. A mate of mine did it, and he’s changed for the worse since the experience
[quote=“myboyblue”]Having dabbled in this “sport” some cunts take it very serious.
Cunts.[/quote]
I actually dont think i could ever express in words the contempt i have for this social event and the piss flaps that play it… It epitomizes evertying i detest and is wrong in this country…
I wish sudden death syndrome upon all of them…