Rugby haters who constantly carp about a rugby world cup (which is a truly global event and has been won by teams from Oceania, Africa and Europe) now want to make the soccer World Cup essentially a tournament confined to Europe and South America.
Great point
Not even taking into account how global the 7s is with USA and Kenya at the top table
I see @Rocko has moved these posts to a new thread. No fear of the admins with their soccer driven agenda cracking down on all the spamming by the rugby haters on the rugby specific threads. Breathtaking double standards.
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Fuck up you ape.
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Busy weekend of qualifiers in the truly global Rugby World Cup.
The final round of the African qualifiers get under way with Namibia v Uganda and Zimbabwe v Morocco. Kenya and Tunisia enter the fray next weekend.
Will all the players be qualified to play or will it be like Europe, a heap of teams thrown out because they had to play ringers to make 15?
Unbelievable, couldn’t have been @Rocko after his recent comment about changing thread titles, it must have been his hilarious flunkey
You’ll have to do your own research on the Tunisia rugby team. I’m trying to get the grips with the Tunisia soccer team at the moment ahead of proceedings in Volgograd tomorrow night.
Yesterday morning when the FIFA world cup was going on between France and Australia, most of the soccer crowd on here were watching Ireland’s gallant victory down under. Box office.
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As Franno repeated in the Sunday Independent this morning, Rugby is the Nations Game.
There is a real neediness in that article. He seems annoyed the end of season rugby tour is an irrelevance during the World Cup.
The Ireland rugby team are flying the flag on the international stage with Eire and Ireland absent (as they invariably always are) from the soccer World Cup.
What flag are they flying?
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The rugby flag
Dominating the sports pages today, despite being locked away on pay tv while RTÉ spends more public money on overseas non Irish events.
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There’s a reason the newspaper industry is dying.
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Meaningless friendly? The Lansdowne Cup is on the line. Typically ill informed rant from one of the rugby hating soccer types.
There was a skip load of posters watching and commenting on it here yday and another 20 or so who watched it but wouldn’t be seen to be watching it. Not to mention the 30 or 40 lads who cant afford sky sports and listened to it
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I watched it as it is my duty as leader of the Anti Schmidt brigade to do so. I take this role very seriously.
We will prevail.