Off Topic 6 Nations. Proper Rugby.

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I've not suggested footballers are not embarrassing in the way they go down.
I've not suggested footballers don't try to influence the refs
I've not suggested footballers don't feign injury.
I've not suggested footballers don't attempt to cheat.

You & your minority sport friend have said that rugby players don't feign injury. They do, at their worst in a far more cynical & contrived way.
I'm not the one pretending it doesn't happen in the sport they follow. It happens in football & also in rugby. Rugby players cheat, football players cheat. That's professional sport. It's also now creeping (a fast creep) into cricket which is also ****.

Rugby supporters in general make it out to be the tough man's game. If you call eye gouging & biting the tough man's game then crack on. At least us football supporters acknowledge there's soft ****s & cheats within the game.

It appears to me there's always blinkers being worn by the rugby fraternity.

Now carry on with your struggle & let me get my work done.

Minority sport which was the largest crowd of the weekend. If unionmisva minority sport what is league.
The six nations has the highest average attendance of any international team competition.
 
You stepped back because you accepted they don't cheat as much? Shame on you. The single blood capsule incident trumped 100 matches worth of dives & rolling around injuries. I'm sure there were times it had occurred previously without it being caught on camera, obviously rugger supporters will claim it as a one off.

They cheat, footballers cheat. I like both but can also appreciate the failings of both as I have no blinkers on.

**** me I bet that hurt, don't forget "they don't feign injury"

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I stepped back because he could keep pointing out numerous examples in every football game which couldn't be done with the rugby.
 
You stepped back because you accepted they don't cheat as much? Shame on you. The single blood capsule incident trumped 100 matches worth of dives & rolling around injuries. I'm sure there were times it had occurred previously without it being caught on camera, obviously rugger supporters will claim it as a one off.

They cheat, footballers cheat. I like both but can also appreciate the failings of both as I have no blinkers on.

**** me I bet that hurt, don't forget "they don't feign injury"

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Johnny foreigners.
 
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You stepped back because you accepted they don't cheat as much? Shame on you. The single blood capsule incident trumped 100 matches worth of dives & rolling around injuries. I'm sure there were times it had occurred previously without it being caught on camera, obviously rugger supporters will claim it as a one off.

They cheat, footballers cheat. I like both but can also appreciate the failings of both as I have no blinkers on.

**** me I bet that hurt, don't forget "they don't feign injury"

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Good of you to take a break from your work to find a rugby player feigning injury. A lot easier to find football ones though.

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Good of you to take a break from your work to find a rugby player feigning injury. A lot easier to find football ones though.

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That's the point though. I accept footballers do it, I don't think anybody has denied it wheras you have said that rugby players "don't feign injury". You were wrong, they do. It was never a comparison.
 
You got there, eventually!



The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.

I will give someone a fiver for every time they post an example of a rugby player feigning injury If they will give me a fiver for every one I post of a footballer doing so. They can post ones of both codes of rugby.
 
I will give someone a fiver for every time they post an example of a rugby player feigning injury If they will give me a fiver for every one I post of a footballer doing so. They can post ones of both codes of rugby.

You'd be rich beyond dreams. However, it doesn't detract from an incorrect assertion that 'they don't feign injury.'
That is all. :emoticon-0100-smile


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
 
You'd be rich beyond dreams. However, it doesn't detract from an incorrect assertion that 'they don't feign injury.'
That is all. :emoticon-0100-smile


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.

Was hoping someone would take me up on it. Fancied a cruise in a penthouse suite.
 
The massive difference ,IMO, between RU and football is respect.

My lad plays union for school and they call the ref sir and that’s only if they are spoken to first. It’s always been that way, it was when I played.

He also plays football on a Sunday and it’s an absolute disgrace. His team played on Sunday, both teams were from the West Hull villages. Proper pansies in other words.

Didn’t stop them arguing with the ref with every decision that went against them and even having digs at one of the parents who was running the line.

I’m sure it wasn’t like that when I played, certainly not at that age.

I’m glad he’s decided not to play football next season because I’m sick to death of listening to it week, week out.

On the other hand I genuinely enjoy watching him play rugby.
 
The massive difference ,IMO, between RU and football is respect.

My lad plays union for school and they call the ref sir and that’s only if they are spoken to first. It’s always been that way, it was when I played.

He also plays football on a Sunday and it’s an absolute disgrace. His team played on Sunday, both teams were from the West Hull villages. Proper pansies in other words.

Didn’t stop them arguing with the ref with every decision that went against them and even having digs at one of the parents who was running the line.

I’m sure it wasn’t like that when I played, certainly not at that age.

I’m glad he’s decided not to play football next season because I’m sick to death of listening to it week, week out.

On the other hand I genuinely enjoy watching him play rugby.

:emoticon-0148-yes: Exactly Carmine.