Winners donât cry after winning group games.
Did you see any of the All Blacks or the Saffers crying after their games?
A few of the argies did though.
Yes but theyâre not winners either. They are happy losers. They are only out there for the laugh.
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Itâs not a 26 county team as ANYONE born in 32 counties can play for them, ANYONE.
Seems to be the case alright
Kevin Moran, Paul McGrath, Sylvie Linnane, Kevin Sheedy - real heroes. Keane left us in our hour of need, the fucker.
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The rugby fans whoâs team shamed the country by giving up today fans bickering with the soccer fans whose team gave up repeatedly at the European championship shaming the country also. Jesus wept. Both stock full of imports who wouldnât dream playing for Ireland if they were good enough for their birthplaces. Neither sport has any grassroots following, rugby is a marketing dream, soccer is irrelevant outside of Dublin, two bandwagons in GAA country.
Scotland robbed, unintentional offside, scrum, Joubert just robs teams but everyone called him sir so all was right in the world. Great to see a few argies get thick with garces as he was trying to drag Ireland back into it
Youâre talking shit mate. Every little hovel in Oireland has a soccer team of some shape. Yes, most of them are togging out under hedge, but they have grass roots support. Granted that doesnât translate into a proper league like most countries, but that is a result of various historical happenstances. Still, the sport is widely played and widely followed (even if the population are not following homegrown teams).
The same canât be said of Rogbee, which is a sport most Oireish people have never played in an organised fashion.
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That mental defective Trevor Hogan just had a cut at the GAA on the highlights show there on TV3. That crook Joubert ran off the pitch at the end of the game. Jaysus thatâs GAA stuff says the Bould Trevor.
Iâm amused the way the rugby crowd are totally in thrall to referees. I assume the unquestioning attitude to authority makes them ideal fodder for the military.
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If today has proven anything, itâs that the forumâs collective heart beats to the sound of the rugby union football drum.
Love it or hate it, you canât ignore it.
Rugby union football is BOX OFFICE.
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What? I know plenty of hovels that have no soccer team. The league of Ireland crowds are a joke. The fai famously brought the Ireland team to limerick for two games a few year back, Delaney announcing a new era where you could see your heroes up close. Except they didnât get close to filling thomond for either game, even giving thousands of tickets away, and binned the idea permanently. Crowds are shite in the Aviva of soccer games, non existent elsewhere. Its well followed in Dublin, Sligo, cork, Donegal, Louth. Small pockets. Irrelevant elsewhere. Even in rugbys pre bandwagon days they brought crowds soccer could only dream of. So in what way does everyone follo soccer, fantasy premier league?
Billy Walsh and his boxers are Irelandâs only world class 32-county representative team.
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The international rules team is number two in the world pal and followed in all hovels
Youâd wonder why Sandy Row boxing club would want to split from such a successful outfit and set up a norn iron boxing association then wouldnât youâŚmoney money moneyâŚ
Theyâre not actually a team, mate, theyâre a collection of individual sportsmen who compete on an individual basis.
Quite similar to the Galway hurling team, except with no bitchiness.
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Iâve just seen a clip of the last minute penalty against Scotland. It amuses me that âexpertsâ like @Tim_Riggins and people who donât particularly like the game such as @maroonandwhite have called it wrong.
The decision was fine. The Scottish lad knocks the ball on. His team-mate deliberately plays it. It doesnât matter that he didnât mean to be âoffsideâ - when he deliberately plays the ball heâs offside and thatâs a penalty.
The ball actually came off an Australian just after the Scottish knock on. I see a load of gimps on twitter claiming that this plays everyone onside. But of course the Australian lad was trying to play it before the Scotch lad knocked it on. After it was knocked on it just bounces off the Australian chap and therefore it doesnât put everyone back onside.
Anyway, thatâs just a little example of the sort of bullshittery you get with rugby. There are guys furious with this decision who donât understand anything about the game.
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mate, there are well over thousand soccer clubs all over Ireland, and probably 100s of thousands of people playing the sport. Your own county of Galway has almost 40 registered soccer clubs, a good number of whom field multiple teams at adult and underage level.
There are not any where near the same number of Rugby clubs and participation.
Saying that Soccer is a badly supported as Rogbee is fucking retarded.
Yes, itâs put in the haâpenny place compared to GGA, but thatâs not the point you were trying to make,
Supported, or played? Soccer of course is more widely played, but why is the people who attend matches so poor