Tim, click on the search icon at the top there, and type in grassroots. Then click on âsearch this threadâ. Its nearly all your posts, or responses to your posts. And who is going on and on about Italia 90? You are again. West Brits has nothing to do with grassroots or any sort of reference to it, as you say, posh schools can be considered grass roots if you want. West brit is a terminology that people use, it has no reference to grass roots, nor does being on a bandwagon.
As I said, your definition of grassroots may be different to mine. And in different parts of Ireland, there are very different aspects of grassroot sports. Where I am, there is pretty much no rugby grassroots at all, nor any push to broaden the playing capacity. Where you are, there is probably a load of clubs and schools where participation is massive. But there are a shit load of soccer clubs all around me here. In Wexford there are 100 teams in the Wexford league. There are 8 teams in rugby. Even take out the number differential, that is a huge difference.
Itâs great that Irish rugby has all home grown players, but you were the one bringing it up in the first place as a stick to beat soccer with, and keep going on about it.
Incorrect. I have responded to people saying the Irish rugby has no grassroots and that we have nothing to celebrate. Italia 90 has been mentioned by many others, including Ewan and Miguel Delaney who hang around here as the greatest Irish achievement ever.
tim, seriously, check the search function. You were the first one to bring up grassroots in this current discussion. I still have failed to see anyone starting an attack on rugby saying it has no grassroots development. You are either seeing things or making things up. you were the one who kept going on about grassroots and Italia 90.
This is the sort of post we need to eradicate from TFK. Forced attempt at humour, completely lacking in wit and a stain on our great forum. Get a grip, Sidney.
Anyone hear that tosser on Matt Cooper tonight. Some chap on promoting his own book about Irish rugby - think his name was English - when Cooper asked him about âcertain sections of the soccer mediaâ who think that the rugby team gets a free ride from rugby journalists and never get the criticism of the football team.
Your man replies - âno, I think we have many fine rugby writers in this country. I think that itâs just jealousy from the soccer journalists. They are jealous of the success of the rugby team and its popularity.â
Cooper - âbut they (soccer writers) think the rugby team bottled it last weekend.â
English - âoh no. It was a bitterly disappointing result but they didnât bottle it.â
Cooper - âthey also point to the All Blacks game when they were 17-0 upâŚâ
English - âthey didnât bottle that either. I think what happened in that game was the players merely froze.â
Youâre seething over this. Just face facts man, the bandwagon moved on. It might come back around association footballâs way again sometime in your lifetime if youâre lucky.
He was one of the chief cheerleaders for charlatan Craig Whyte when he was taking over at Rangers.
This piece is particularly funny because his sarcastic attempt at humour turned out to be bang on the money, only Tom was too busy lapping up the bullshit to notice.
