Australia 34 - England 3

Need I say more?

http://www.rugby.com.au/matches/tournaments/bundaberg_rum_rugby_series/2006/qantas_wallabies_v_england_1,39913.html

Who cares about Egg Chasing?

heterosexual men, as opposed to the pooves who care where beckham get's his manicure and hair done.

Oh I don't mind if they are actual chutney ferrets at all. I worry more about grown men needing a stretcher to be taken away cos they fell on some soft grass and knocked a hair out of place. Seen a rugby player have his ear gaffer taped back on on return to the field. :D

And weren't rugby and soccer both developed at the same time in public schools, so they have the same origins.

Rugby was invented by someone who wasn't clever enough to understand the basic rules of football...

Al Jarvis wrote: Stuart Pearce broke his leg playing for West Ham and tried to 'run it off'.

Now, that's quite hard.

OK, I grant you that is kinda hard...or possibly just stupid :D

I mean they do say that the only reason a racing driver gets out of a burning wreck and into a spare car is becuse they are devoid of all brain tissue (and that's the opinion of a harley St Neurosurgeon). Possibly the same thing with these guys.

Have seen at least one stretcher carried on at the WC cos somebody fell over on some grass....needs his dad there to hit him a clip round the ear and tell him sto stop being a big jessie.

I'm glad I don't play tiddly winks with you lot! Rugby is a far tougher sport than soccer.

Ooh Ooh I've hurt my leg, stop the game for 5 mins while I recooperate.

Old Blue wrote: Rugby was invented by someone who wasn't clever enough to understand the basic rules of football...

And they can't even understand that a half is meant to be 45 minutes long

Barnette wrote: I'm glad I don't play tiddly winks with you lot! Rugby is a far tougher sport than soccer.

Ooh Ooh I've hurt my leg, stop the game for 5 mins while I recooperate.

Not my words! Mr Barnette hijacked my thread

fuck Rugby. its for middle class sydney public schoolboys.

how'd the Eagles do? still top of the league?

J.A.K wrote: fuck Rugby. its for middle class sydney public schoolboys.

how'd the Eagles do? still top of the league?

I played women's rugby in college

most of those girls (and for some of them the term is used very loosely) would eat you alive.

J.A.K wrote: fuck Rugby. its for middle class sydney public schoolboys.

how'd the Eagles do? still top of the league?

See, not only am I a goby cunt, I am a recently educated gobby cunt.

Rugby and Soccer were developed in parallell, both as the game of football, in the early days, a player would not have played one or the other, but both, at will depending on the ruless agreed before eaach game. It was only when the embryonic FA tried to nail the rules down that the Rugby variant was written out, and the rugger buggers sulked off to form their own governing body.

Therefor the "footie is for the people, rugger is for the toffs" line is patent bollox.

I do not contest that everyone who plays footie is a nonce, just the really famous player.....we've all seen some kid pull his kneecap off on the all weather pitch and get back in goal like.

I would suggest BTW that the most pampered lifeforms on the planet are racing drivers, yet you can bounce them off a wall at 200 mph and they' climb out of their own car and walk back to the pit (or, if you are kimi Raikonen, the nearest large drink). If the rules allow, they will find another car to wreck almost immeadiately.

ChrissMari wrote:

J.A.K wrote: fuck Rugby. its for middle class sydney public schoolboys.

how'd the Eagles do? still top of the league?

I played women's rugby in college

most of those girls (and for some of them the term is used very loosely) would eat you alive.

yeah...at 14...i was so scared of girls. ooooooooo!!!!!

My mate’s dog ate a rabbit alive at the weekend. Just swallowed it whole, right in front of everyone.

Amazing.

[black]Diamond[/black] wrote: My mate’s dog ate a rabbit alive at the weekend. Just swallowed it whole, right in front of everyone.

Amazing.

I think this may be the most amazing thing I've ever read here...no shitting

What kind of dog was it?

ChrissMari wrote:

[black]Diamond[/black] wrote: My mate’s dog ate a rabbit alive at the weekend. Just swallowed it whole, right in front of everyone.

Amazing.

I think this may be the most amazing thing I've ever read here...no shitting

What kind of dog was it?

a miniture yorkshire terrier called Shrimpy

Al Jarvis wrote: Stuart Pearce broke his leg playing for West Ham and tried to 'run it off'.

Now, that's quite hard.

i see that & raise you this wayne shelford had his scrotum torn by some studs in a tackle. he played on & finished the game.

J.A.K wrote: fuck Rugby. its for middle class sydney public schoolboys.

have i stumbled across a web site from the past or do people still really believe this?

Old Blue wrote: Rugby was invented by someone who wasn't clever enough to understand the basic rules of football...

i'd wager the laws of rugby are far more complex than those of football. half the players don't understand the laws of rugby!

Al Jarvis wrote:

Rugberry is a sport(?) for very posh blokes and gayers.

In England, at least.

based on what exactly? last season bristol signed some ex amateur players, one was a welder from coventry, one a builder from plymouth. neither of them are posh, if you want to call them gay i'll gladly hold your coat.

how often are you going to keep trotting out this stereotype? maybe going back sixty years or so when it was amatuer you had english teams made up of doctors & the like, but not any more

ChrissMari wrote:

J.A.K wrote: fuck Rugby. its for middle class sydney public schoolboys.

how'd the Eagles do? still top of the league?

I played women's rugby in college

most of those girls (and for some of them the term is used very loosely) would eat you alive.

Womens Rugby where i come from is a 100% lesbian sport.....

you work in an investment bank. that's hardly working class is it?

you can't disagree that football players go down easier than a crack whore in corby though

hibster wrote:

Al Jarvis wrote: Stuart Pearce broke his leg playing for West Ham and tried to 'run it off'.

Now, that's quite hard.

i see that & raise you this wayne shelford had his scrotum torn by some studs in a tackle. he played on & finished the game.

Why's anyone still arguing with you Hibster? you've won, by a mile, with that.

For the F1 fraternity I offer Nikki lauda, half man, half BBQ malfunction.

Or what about James hunt, who's gear stick top came off with 1/3 of the Brittish GP to go, so he smashed his hand onto the spike where it had been ,rammed it right through his hand and stayed like that, driving one handed, for the rest of the race.

J.A.K wrote: fuck Rugby. its for middle class sydney public schoolboys.

how'd the Eagles do? still top of the league?

Yeah, now there's a man's sport :)

Eagles are still top after coming back in the last quarter to beat Carlton. My beloved Crows are second and 4 points ahead of Eddiewood who got beaten by Melbourne today.

hibster wrote:

Al Jarvis wrote:

Rugberry is a sport(?) for very posh blokes and gayers.

In England, at least.

based on what exactly? last season bristol signed some ex amateur players, one was a welder from coventry, one a builder from plymouth. neither of them are posh, if you want to call them gay i'll gladly hold your coat.

how often are you going to keep trotting out this stereotype? maybe going back sixty years or so when it was amatuer you had english teams made up of doctors & the like, but not any more

probably because working class cities like Liverpool for example just don't care about Rugby.

J.A.K wrote:

hibster wrote:

Al Jarvis wrote:

Rugberry is a sport(?) for very posh blokes and gayers.

In England, at least.

based on what exactly? last season bristol signed some ex amateur players, one was a welder from coventry, one a builder from plymouth. neither of them are posh, if you want to call them gay i'll gladly hold your coat.

how often are you going to keep trotting out this stereotype? maybe going back sixty years or so when it was amatuer you had english teams made up of doctors & the like, but not any more

probably because working class cities like Liverpool for example just don't care about Rugby.

wigan does

Al Jarvis wrote:

hibster wrote: you can't disagree that football players go down easier than a crack whore in corby though

That isn't the point that I first reacted to though, is it? Cambo suggested that heterosexual men cared about rugberry, pooves(!) about football. Which patently isn't the case.

It's also a bit of a sweeping generalisation to say that players go down easily in football.

Try telling that to this bloke.

he's the new Coach of Sydney FC.

ChrissMari wrote:

J.A.K wrote:

hibster wrote:

Al Jarvis wrote:

Rugberry is a sport(?) for very posh blokes and gayers.

In England, at least.

based on what exactly? last season bristol signed some ex amateur players, one was a welder from coventry, one a builder from plymouth. neither of them are posh, if you want to call them gay i'll gladly hold your coat.

how often are you going to keep trotting out this stereotype? maybe going back sixty years or so when it was amatuer you had english teams made up of doctors & the like, but not any more

probably because working class cities like Liverpool for example just don't care about Rugby.

wigan does

wigan's not a city. its a poxy-pie-eating town!

Only one form of rugby worth watching.

Can't stand all-pile-on, the only thing its good for is the annual opportunity to laugh the Irish, Welsh and French and not give a stuff if England get beaten.

And I can't stand that knob who presents it on BBC, Rah!Rah!

James Thomas wrote: Only one form of rugby worth watching.

All about the Rhinos.

I like Rugby (league) and Football, dont see what all this is about. Rugbys more of a physical game though

J.A.K wrote:

ChrissMari wrote:

J.A.K wrote:

probably because working class cities like Liverpool for example just don't care about Rugby.

wigan does

wigan's not a city. its a poxy-pie-eating town!

I'm just saying it's working class and they enjoy their rugby

or is it only the sophisticated city working class types (what?) that count? :P

Wigan used to enjoy their rugby, they're going down this year

ChrissMari wrote:

J.A.K wrote:

ChrissMari wrote:

J.A.K wrote:

probably because working class cities like Liverpool for example just don't care about Rugby.

wigan does

wigan's not a city. its a poxy-pie-eating town!

I'm just saying it's working class and they enjoy their rugby

or is it only the sophisticated city working class types (what?) that count? :P

err i'd leave the posting til you know what you're tlaking about. wigan is rugby league, this was about rugby union.

hibster wrote: ....half the players don't understand the laws of rugby!

Obviously drinking piss and stuffing coins up their foreskin has had a negative impact on their capacity to understand a game.

Al Jarvis wrote:

hibster wrote: you can't disagree that football players go down easier than a crack whore in corby though

That isn't the point that I first reacted to though, is it? Cambo suggested that heterosexual men cared about rugberry, pooves(!) about football. Which patently isn't the case.

It's also a bit of a sweeping generalisation to say that players go down easily in football.

Try telling that to this bloke.

see i knew you'd bring him up as there are so few cases of footballers having any mettle & playing on through serious injury. you've now named both ones i could think of btw. & butchers just got a little claret on him nothing much.

go to any game of rugby & see injuries & people carrying on, go to any football match & you'll see someone rolling around on the floor in agony after a tiny little knock. sweeping generalisation or damning critique on the state that game you follow is these days?

hibster wrote:

ChrissMari wrote:

J.A.K wrote:

ChrissMari wrote:

J.A.K wrote:

probably because working class cities like Liverpool for example just don't care about Rugby.

wigan does

wigan's not a city. its a poxy-pie-eating town!

I'm just saying it's working class and they enjoy their rugby

or is it only the sophisticated city working class types (what?) that count? :P

err i'd leave the posting til you know what you're tlaking about. wigan is rugby league, this was about rugby union.

I know that... and I know the difference between the two but I guess I don't get how that affects this conversation?

Is one seen as more faggy than the other?

I'll just step away then because I think the fact that you have to say that one game is more pouncey than the other game means that both are probably pretty gay and not worth the time to wind JAK up about.

way to miss the point. or in fact any of the points made so far.

My British History professor once said that soccer (i.e. football) is a game of gentlemen played by ruffians, and rugby is a game of ruffians played by gentlemen. I don't know what that means, except that he was probably a rugby fan... Anyway, the rugby rules are no doubt more complex than the rules of football. Same with cricket, baseball, Amercian football, etc. Doesn't make them better sports, just more comlicated. That's probably one reason football is so popular- it's simple!