You can slag the rugby crowd all you like but marketing types have made a fortune off it and the fai would grad their hands off for the same bandwagon support. Also a few of the players are alright sorts like most teams their is a mix sound chaps, cunts, wankers, clowns etc etc.
They made a mug out of you, mate. You spend your money following it.
Yes. Yes we can and we will.
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Lubed up and mugged off, so he wasâŚ
I donât really all irish games were on free to air tv.
Youâve a Munster season ticket, mate.
No I donât.
I do find this whole thing strange. I donât like the utterly skewed reporting and bitter victimhood displayed by the media on behalf of sean o brien, and the libel and slander pape has been subjected to in the general press, but it was no worse to be honest, than the hysteria over the Thierry Henri handball incident, both of which demonstrated an unbecoming petulant streak in irish society.
Why people hate the sport so much is beyond me. Like Rocko, I played rugby every grade from u8 to senior with my club, and first team at uni, and had under age provincial trials, but wasnât that bothered.
I far prefer hurling and football to play and to watch, but so what if people who didnât play rugby enjoy it and get excited by it. Itâs better than following manyoo or watching eastenders or X factor or some such bilge.
I addition, most rugby clubs I encountered were far more mature and accepting than GAA clubs. We got hammered plenty of times at underage by teams fielding overage and ineligible players.
We were beaten in cup competitions in galway and Dublin by teams playing seniors who were illegal. We took our fucking beating and came back, and never went looking for joe fucking brolly, or rooting through the fine print.
Like I say, I love the GAA, but itâs no shangri fucking la, thatâs for sure, and irish rugby players are every bit as irish and as patriotic as anyone else.
Oh, and whilst Iâm at it, I think a single 32 county Ireland representative side is a good thing.
I wasnât disappointed Argentina won, due to the sean o brien spite and bilge, and due to the fact that they were a lot fucking better.
I have had the pleasure of simon easterbyâs company on occasion, and he is a quiet, calm, generous and thoroughly decent man.
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What a load of rubbish.
Rugby football was, is and always will be the preserve of absolute wankers.
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It was the preserve of your bud Rocko for the bulk of his playing career was it not?
Exactly.
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Ah lovely.
He used to be a wanker but heâs alright now.
Like Aron Ralston.
What a clamping for @Rocko.
What I particularly love is his trademark, all-knowing smugness in the above post, which makes him look pretty stupid now.
Bullshittery of the highest order.
Referee Craig Joubert was wrong to award a crucial 78th-minute penalty against Scotland in Sundayâs World Cup quarter-final defeat by Australia, says World Rugby.
Scotland led 34-32 at Twickenham when Jon Welsh was ruled deliberately offside for playing the ball after a knock-on by a team-mate.
The governing body said that, because Australiaâs Nick Phipps touched the ball, âthe appropriate decision should have been a scrum to Australia for the original knock-onâ.
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Thanks for posting Sid, but I have this under control.
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More evidence of people not understanding things properly, Iâm afraid.
The BBC claim it was a scrum because Phipps touched the ball. The reality, when you read their statement is that he needed to intentionally touch it. I donât believe he did. He was trying to play it originally but once the Scotch lad fumbles it forward then the Australian lad hasnât a hope of not touching it. If he doesnât mean to touch it then he doesnât play anyone onside. It comes down to that interpretation. What isnât at play is the issue of accidental offside - despite all the claims to the contrary that I referenced. Itâs not accidental.
So youâre saying the people who set the rules, are wrong?