Rugby

[Shaggy]

People who call the game have obviously never played it. The disipline of positions in Union is frightening.

Me thinks Shaggy never used to like playing Rugby at school - I think he's got a phobia!

P.S. I'd like to Shaggy you outrun 6'0+, 16st plus Mike Tindall

How exciting. No wonder so few people watch it.

I could outrun Mike Tindall with my shoelaces tied together.

[Bob]

People who call the game have obviously never played it. The disipline of positions in Union is frightening.

Me thinks Shaggy never used to like playing Rugby at school - I think he's got a phobia!

P.S. I'd like to Shaggy you outrun 6'0+, 16st plus Mike Tindall

He's clearly never played it. He would have been snapped in two given his 6' 2" frame at school.

It was our first sport.

And yes it's very skillful.

[Joe Le Toff]

My old fella played both football and rugby, rugby at a pretty high standard.
He always says that rugby is by far the more tactical game and as such is more enjoyable when playing it.
As i only played it at school and used to hang about on the wing in the pissing rain to avoid getting battered by the freak-of-nature 13 year old kids who were 6 foot 5 and 17 stone, ive never bothered commenting to the contrary.

[Joe Le Toff]

I could outrun Mike Tindall with my shoelaces tied together.

[Shaggy]

I have played it - we played it at school, but given the dire lack of interest, we couldn't muster a school team. We were too busy playing football.

I've also played in a couple of charity games, reluctantly, and it's totally ****ing boring.

Funnily enough, the first time I played against a proper team I came on as sub, having not wanted to play. It was for charity, so I thought "**** it". I came on, called for the ball, someone threw it to me, and I ran about 90 yards with the ball, past all manner of fat c*nts, before finally being clattered by three fatties at once - all converging on me from different angles. It took three of them, but they stopped me.

[Rich]

I had a moment of clarity on the Rugby field as a kid - I was literally head and shoulders taller and stronger than my age group - yet never made proper use of it. Then in the Inter-school Cup, it suddenly dawned on me my obvious advantage (and being one of the years best runners at the time) I was just given the ball and burst through about 5 tackles to score the first of five tries. What a day

[Shaggy]

Anyway, it's only a minority sport like ice-hockey or rowing.

[anfieldanfield]

Apart from kicking a randomly-bouncing egg through some massive posts, please enlighten me on this fantastic skill I and millions of others must be missing.

Rucking? Mauling? Throwing a ****ing egg backwards? Is that skilful?

It's basically chess played out by a load of fat, homo-erotic, hoorah-Henrys. It elicits zero passion on the streets of Britain.

[anfieldanfield]

We played Rugby at school.

Our coach was non existent and our skipper was a massive football fan, so he let the rugby-loving "pack" do their own thing and organised his backline into a football formation, which we were all more comfortable with.

We had left wingers and right wingers and central midfielders.

"Dave, you play the Hamann role today....mop everything up behind Scholes"

We even had a goalkeeper who stood underneath the posts.

[johnp]

Anyway, it's only a minority sport like ice-hockey or rowing.

I'd cricket in that category

[Mumsafan]

Football is the national game, win, lose or draw.

Rugby is the Welsh national game, lose, lose or lose.

Not even a sport they thought up themselves

[Shaggy]

I'd cricket in that category

Absolutely. As much as I love cricket, it's played by very few nations, just like rugby, so I suppose it'd have to be considered a minor sport in worldwide terms.

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

So "catching" is this skill I'm missing is it?! Well blow me down!

I'd guess the only people who couldn't catch it would be Red_Hot, Mumsafan, Lady Red, Danielle and one or two others. Only girls can't catch, whether it's an egg, a cricket ball or a football.

[johnp]

Absolutely. As much as I love cricket, it's played by very few nations, just like rugby, so I suppose it'd have to be considered a minor sport in worldwide terms.

World Cup
Kinda like the world series in baseball.

[Shaggy]

World Cup
Kinda like the world series in baseball.

Just like the Rugby World Cup, only more competitive. What a laughable event that is, with islands as big as my local Tesco taking part, like Western Samoa and all those other clowns from the Pacific.

More teams are in with a chance of winning the cricket World Cup than there are the egg chasing one. Way more competitive.