How crap is that sport?

chasing an egg around the pitch and battering into eachother. No skill, and half the players are fat. Then we get all the bandwagon brigade when we do well in the world cup every time cos barely another nation takes the sport seriously bar NZ!!!

Not for me!!!

:rolleyes:

No skill? What?! There's plenty of skill in rugby, just rather typically, its never England that show it :(

Every so often I'll watch a game, but it's no football.

Athletics and boxing are more entertaining.

i don't really have much time for it either, i find it borin even if its live or not

Fans are all losers! I went to one game as I got a free ticket and I have never felt so out of place! Theres me from the worst area in Edinburgh swearing like a trooper whenever someone trouted up, surrounded by all these private schooling children and there doctor and lawyer dads with faces painted covered in canterbury gear :blink:

Saturday was a joke. Scotland pump England and the fans don't give a fcuk and start leaving. Can you imagine Scottish football fans happily leaving the stadium 30 seconds after the final whistle after beating the auld enemy. Crazy.

Watford and Saracens share the same ground.

Sarries - play in Europe every year and are considered one of the biggest clubs in the premiership challenging for the title every year and their fans are allowed to stand up at matches without any hassle from the stewards get 9000 fans a week.

Watford - play in the championship and play a really boring style of football. They occasionally get promoted to the premiership only to go straight back down again. Their fans are forced to sit down thanks to the football leagues stupid rules and consequently the atmosphere is generally poor. They get 16,000 fans a week!

I went to Wrexham for a Barnet away match this season instead of staying at home and watching the Rugby world cup final.

Enough said...

It's a very dull sport. The fan culture is dire. Upper class toffs. Jeremy, Rupert and Nigel would rather sit down and politely applaud a try compared to a pissed up set of football fans bouncing like trout when they scored a crucial goal. :lol:

Football - Sport for the spectator

Rugby Union - Sport for the player

Whereas if we were talking about Rugby league that is totally different.

True, they have a decent fan culture and terraces.

some people i know are getting into this NFL malarky!!! As far as im concerned any sport with an egg shaped ball is stupid, unpopular and boring!!! ;)

I happen to like Rugby. Have done since playing it at school (I was slightly less crap at it than I was at football) in Year 7. I've never been to a rugby match at a level you have to pay for, so I know little of the fan culture. It's the only sport I watch on TV (other than the odd FA Cup Final), but even then I don't watch it often. Most games seem to be on when I'm at the football anyway! I'd rather watch live football than live rugby, but I'd rather watch televised rugby than televised football. I suppose that the reason I never got into rugby (particularly in a match-going sense) as much as football was that I know very few other people who like (or even understand) it, and almost all of them prefer football. It's definately a more technical game, and thus harder to pick up, and this is probably the reason that football is more popular.

Live cricket is also quite good, but it's boring as hell on TV!

Football will always take priority though.

If you want a boring sport, then try American Football or NASCAR!

I dont like it either I hate it even more after last week, I had a double on ireland & scotland, would have won me a pretty tidy sum.

Cannot stand the sport. Used to be in the school team in year 7. Didn't - and still don't- know the rules, that says something about the sport doesn't it :P

In all seriousness though, it really is as yorkiebarkid says, we complain about football atmosphere now, but thank Christ we have a bit of it left. If it were up to the PL and co. we'd be carbon copies of rugby fans.

did they have good atmospheres back in the 70's and 80's or has it always been tench

:D Know what you mean.

I take no more than a passing interest in rugby union, but like it when the England team does well as there is definitely that feel-good factor in the country that rubs off on you a bit.

But when it comes to going to a match... went to a charity match featuring Martin Johnson at a local club recently and never seen so many barbours, heard as many braying, sloaney voices and drinking glasses of white wine pitchside for chrissakes!

Different breed, but each to their own, football matches will be just as alien to most of them.

Simple answer; no. Thats why I could never watch it live. Maybe rugby league for the terraces and atmos. but never Union. Mind you Rugby League is a northern sport.

I saw a 1970s rugby (union) match on ESPN Classic the other day that had a really good football-style pitch invasion at the end :huh: I think it was at Cardiff Arms Park though, and (so the stereotype goes, anyway) the sport's never been a posh boys' thing in Wales as it has here.

I could have quite enjoyed playing it, but had never done so and didn't know the rules by the time I got to secondary school. My PE teacher (like most PE teachers) harboured dreams of coaching a prize-winning rugby team, so concentrated most of his efforts on the boys that already knew, liked, and were good at the game in the hopes that one day we'd beat the posher school on the other side of town (think it happened once in the whole time I was there, lol).
Naturally, at the same time he didn't really bother with teaching much rules or proper technique to the rest of us - so the lessons ended up with a small elite doing anything of importance and the rest of us being cannon fodder to add weight to scrums and receive nasty injuries from one of the aforementioned elite when we made pitiful attempts at tackling them. Kind of coloured my perception of the sport!

Before starting uni, I'd have been very much on the side of the majority on here regarding rugby. However, upon starting uni, I got talked into giving rugby a try (no pun intended), and to be honest I've fallen in love with the game. The old sterotype about it being a public school boys game really is a tad OTT, and playing it obviously enabeled me to understand the game in a way that watching the odd bit on TV never would have done, and I do now love watching it too.

Maybe Eggball Union doesn't have the best of atmospheres, but to be honest given the tench I became used to at the "Emirates" last season, I can't see them being any worse than a lot of modern day football atmospheres, and they do get to take beer into the stands.

Truly though, I've still never actually paid to watch any rugby live, but whilst I liked the tribal factor that went/goes with football, there is still something for being in the pub on the last day of the six nations with a bunch of Scots, Welsh, Irish, French and Italians all together. And given what's become of football, I am almost at the point where I'd consider myself a bigger fan of rugby than football.

What are you talking about. NASCAR is fantastic!!! And American football is quite good as well.

If you want a boring sport, try boxing or horse racing!

What are YOU talking about - horse racing might be cruel and unnecessary but it's very exciting (especially if you've got money on it!) and boxing is just plain brilliant!

Horse Racing is great, like you said though it's even better when you've got money riding on it. I'm going to Cheltenham friday, 9 of us going, should be a cracking day out

boxings awesome especially live, have you heard some of the crowds as well can get a really good atmosphere.

Horse racing is tench....every horse I back must be the only 3 legged donkey in the race :angry: :lol:
The dogs are better.

Couldn't agree more

my mate owns a dog track so i go down there quite a lot and get free food and bevvy and i must say dog racing is awesome especially when you are betting you can really get into it.

Bang on, will watch that, the rules actually make sense as well.

We get plenty off the Union Toffs around here with the Tigers being so sucsessfull - "Oh so you suport City as well?"
"No, Man u obviosuly, they're good! Not like Leicester sh*ty"

Fcking cu nts. Gets me good n' proper.

Indeed. The same with cricket as well. The atmospheres at each sport are different, but that's what makes them good & unique!

I was in Blois, France on the day of the Rugby World Cup final and watched it in a room with about 100 English, 2 French and 1 South African guy who sang his whole national anthem before the game in the middle of us all! He got quite a bit of respect for that.

When Northampton and Bedford played each other in rugby a few months back (same league as the football championship or Division 2 as I prefer to call it) The local news made a big deal about it about Bedford and saints being big local rivals and the likes. They had a report which went along the lines of this

"This is a local derby but unlike football fans Northampton and Bedford fans mix in the stands together without a hint of trouble"(not the exact words but was something along those lines) Then they showed two pratts one in a Northampton and another in a Bedford shirt standing together.

Annoys me they make out we are all knuckle dragging yobs when the Rugby fans are given over as good boys who wont say boo to a goose. Also why are they allowed beer in the stands for the fans London Irish, Saracens, Sale and Wasps while fans of Reading, Watford, Stockport and Wycombe (plus away fans) aren't.

As for Rugby the sport Union is a pile of crap League I don't know as you may have guessed I'm from the wrong area for that but I guess its just as bad though.

Don't mind watching things like boxing, darts, though. Used to love athletics (mainly sprinting) as it was one of the few things I was good at. Was the best in my year for 200m. Poxy school never entered us for the town championships though.

Fits in perfectly

Football - Sport for the supporter

Rugby Union - sport for the player

football- sport for the masses (play and watch)

rugby- sport for the fat kids who cant play football

surely?

:P :rolleyes:

I just wish Rugby league was more popular in the South-East, I mean I enjoy watching quite a few sports but I wouldn't want to attend a Rugby Union game.

I enjoy watching American sports too as they're a bit different, doesn't mean I want all the American customs in our sports though, the differences between sports make them what they are.

I never used to like rugby, although I played a bit at school. When I moved to wales, i still didn't like the sport, but over time it's really grown on me, and I now follow both Cardiff Blues and the Welsh Rugby Team.

I think most of the views on here are based on English rugby culture as opposed to the sport as a whole. Believe me that Welsh rugby is far from a 'toffs' sport. The rugby heartlands here are the South Wales Valleys, which are without question amongst the most traditionally working class areas in the UK. Certainly you'd never go into a rugby club in Merthyr Tydfil and call them 'toffs'!

The constant slagging off of football by some in rugby annoy me, but to be honest, when you get players falling over like fairies it is to be expected.

I do find a beer and a laugh with my mates on the terraces of Cardiff Blues watching some tough tackles and honest men a welcome tonic sometimes to the prima donnas and money men that seem to dominate football nowadays.

I stand by my comments. I absolutely can't stand boxing or horse racing!!!

To me, boxing is just 2 people having a fight. If I want to watch people fighting I could just go out into Watford on a Saturday night. I find it really boring to watch.

Same with horse racing. In fact I don't like animal sports generally. Probably showjumping would have to be the worst. Why would anyone enjoy watching horses jumping over fences?

Football is just 22 people kicking a piece of leather around, could go to the park to see that.

Not that you're not entitled to dislike those sports of course.

When put that way it makes perfect sence!

I still hate boxing though!

Yeah, there's people like that but there's decent Tigers fans around too. They're just outnumbered by glory-hunters in the same way that the Man Utd and Liverpool fans on here are. Although to be honest, it does make it quite amusing to try and subtly take the piss out of some of them. Managed to convince one from Surrey that Welford Road was "right by the river, just off the M1" who claimed he'd been following them since he was a kid.

Firstly I find all American Sports terrible. When American football went to Wembley I though I'd give it 5 minutes of my time, what a waste of 5 minutes of my life, the ball must have only been in play 20 seconds, hows that exciting.

I know nothing about rugby league, in this part of the world its non existant, look like good grounds and fans on SKY though.

Whilst I think the popularity of rugby, compared to football can be summed up by this.
Swansea are a 3rd division team, and have been in the bottom 2 divisions for 24 years. The Ospreys are in the European Cup Quarter finals. Swansea average 13k crowds, the Ospreys average about 9k, and this is in the rugby strong hold. I dont mind rugby. I can watch a Wales game and get into it, although dispite us doing so well this campaign I haven't seen a game. But compared to football it just doesn't have the passion, people seem to obsessed with having a drink in their hand, then weather their team are winning or losing, but then again, I think so a re a lot of people on here.

Come on Wales. Grand Slam 2008 :D
I'd much rather Swansea win tomorrow though

IN Wycombe the football club have become played second fiddle since Wasps have ground shared since 2003. We have gone down to average 4400 from 6600 and I know many who use to watch Wycombe now only watch Wasps. wASPS USUALLY SELL OUT 10,000 at Adams aprk and the cnuts win something every year. They now want to build a 20,000 stadium in our town because so many glory hunters have sat on their bandwagon since they hijacked our towns support. I hope they dont get the ground and fcuk off back to London were they came from and we can actaully get football back in the town.
They play away to London Irish tomoz at Madjeski in front of a sell out 24,000 I wouod love it, just loe it if they lose. But I cant stand them they just keep winning and the glory hunting scum are kept happy. Football team may as well not exist with them around :angry:

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