Yeah. League. It's what i've brought up with.

Since I've been in Australia i've noticed that hardly anyone plays it here. Maybe in NSW or Queensland but not in Victoria.

B_M_L wrote:I don't understand the "gay" comments. Surely the only true gay sport is Penis Jousting. The only time Rugby has ever been gay is when the English national press sucked ‘Johnny’ Wilkinson’s cock for six months after the last world cup.

Rugby is great – aggressive, tactical, skilful and fun.

Football (Soccer) on the other hand... well, any ‘sport’ where it is considered a legitimate for players to feign injury when touched by an opponent, or pretend to be fouled, or dramatically fall over in order to gain advantage is just wrong. Any ‘sport’ where the commentator’s devote large amounts of time to your national team captains hair cut is just prissy... it this what you English blokes really consider to be a great game? Why don’t you just embrace hair dressing, fashion and the dramatic arts as your national games? Because that is pretty much what your soccer equates to.

i think the gay comments come from the fact that there is often alot of homophobia found amongst rugby players and supporters which is kind of strange considering the game involves men getting down, dirty, sweaty with other men and grabbing them as much as possible. this could be considered rough foreplay. at least with american football they are completely protected from the advances of other players via lots of padding. and in soccer they only give each other hugs when genuinely happy about scoring a goal.

Gramsci wrote:

Nico Adie wrote:England is not the UK. It is part of the UK.

Please remember this.

Rugby is not crap.

Genuine apology, Scotland and Wales are actually proper Rugby countries with great teams.

Salute Scotland.

Apology fully accepted.

We're going to miss Jason White a lot during the Six Nations. He is the best tackler in the world. I'm pretty sure I would die instantly if he tackled me full force.

I hope he gets fit in time for the World Cup.

Nico Adie wrote:...I hope he gets fit in time for the World Cup.

Strangely enough.. I don't!

Seriously, Scotland are always a pleasure to watch. Best of luck, but this year it's the All Blacks*... I can feel it.

*Trivia:
The name "All Blacks" does not come from the black uniform but from misprinted newspaper article from the first New Zealand tour of England when the columnist described the New Zealanders as playing like the team was "all backs" . The typesetter put "all blacks" and the term stuck.

Bump. Since we're all, y'know, 'behind the lads' this weekend.

I answered a friend's question with this morning, which made me drag this up: League is always the preferred code. This was reinforced in London at the weekend, when I was surrounded by a load of toga-wearing southern students. With the Challenge Cup Final reaching a peak (Leeds v St Helens), one of these braying cunts approached the bar manager and demanded he "put the ragby orn". "This is rugby," the barkeep pointed out. "Nah, this is ragby league, nobody cares about ragby league becorse it's northern and it's crap."

Later, in between attempts at singing 'Swing Low', long tables of idiots were yelling "Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug!" at each other, as they turned even the noble art of drinking a simple beer into some overblown gameshow.

I won't be endorsing this homoerotic toff-storm. The twats can't even count to six.

daniel robert chapman wrote:This was reinforced in London at the weekend, when I was surrounded by a load of toga-wearing southern students.

See, there's your problem.

Rugby seems to be the only sport people will watch whilst fully admitting they don't understand the rules.

All sports are silly and pointless but at least football is simple and makes sense.

At a seaside town for a stag weekend last week we entered a pub where every last person gathered infront of the tv screen for the rugby. They stood up and put their hands on thier hearts for the national anthem. We left shortly thereafter.

This next paragraph is gonna hurt me to type out. I wince just thinking about it.

I used to be in a band with a guy who played rugby as a teenager. Apparantly he was very good and could have gone far but left it to pursue music. He told me that rugby players were some of the most homophobic people he'd met. Yet with some of the gayest activities. He said that in the changing rooms they would play a game where two men stand facing each other, cock in hand, and play what is essentially a game of conkers. They would take it in turns to smash the tip of their dick down onto the tip of their opponent's. The first one to develop a bruise, loses. I'm crossing my legs just thinking about it.

And that's all I have to say about rugby.

Rotten Tanx wrote:He told me that rugby players were some of the most homophobic people he'd met. Yet with some of the gayest activities.

Funnily enough, I made the exact same observation to friends last night. The two aspects are probably connected, aren't they?

Rotten Tanx wrote:Yet with some of the gayest activities.

They would take it in turns to smash the tip of their dick down onto the tip of their opponent's.

I'm not, you know, gay, but I can say with absolute certainty that two men smashing their dicks together until injury occurs isn't a particularly 'gay' thing to do. It's a strange thing to do.

In fact, I'm not entirely sure which part of the game is particularly 'gay', unless one considers all physical contact between men to be 'gay'.