Rugby at Falmer/Amex

[cannedheat]

Well I am going to Twickenham today, fcum can go f***, bens grandad talks shit ,and the Amex doe's not need a rugby team, to many middle class twits at football these days they just might want to watch the rugby and spoil it because they dont like fistcuffs and swearing there little angels might see and hear it..

 

[nwgull]

It would be a reasonable idea if there was a team in Sussex that attracted 10 000+ supporters each week, ie premiership team. However there isn't, and it's unlikely that there ever will be.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I'm sure Reading/Wycombe/Watford felt the same until they adopted London Irish/Wasps/Saracens. Although I guess they are now settled respectively and would not want to relocate again.

 

[rcf0712]

what drugs are you on, or rather were you on when you posted that? Rugby (both codes) totally fucks up a good football pitch, and secondly it's an elitist game for chinless wonders and neanderthals, IMHO....

 

[Icy Gull]

what drugs are you on, or rather were you on when you posted that? Rugby (both codes) totally fucks up a good football pitch, and secondly it's an elitist game for chinless wonders and neanderthals, IMHO....

An elitist neanderthal, interesting, where can I find out more about this breed?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

what drugs are you on, or rather were you on when you posted that? Rugby (both codes) totally fucks up a good football pitch, and secondly it's an elitist game for chinless wonders and neanderthals, IMHO....

It doesn't ruin a pitch, if looked after properly.

I really don't understand this inverse snobbery when it comes to 'chinless wonders'.

Too many middle class watching football. Rugby the preserve of the middle class. What heinous crime have these middle class people committed?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

An elitist neanderthal, interesting, where can I find out more about this breed?

Homo Sapiens.

 

[rcf0712]

An elitist neanderthal, interesting, where can I find out more about this breed?

Do you really want to?

 

[Icy Gull]

Do you really want to?

Is it a cross breed Millwall and Harlequins fan?

 

[rcf0712]

It doesn't ruin a pitch, if looked after properly.

I really don't understand this inverse snobbery when it comes to 'chinless wonders'.

Too many middle class watching football. Rugby the preserve of the middle class. What heinous crime have these middle class people committed?

Fair call, personally I'm still scarred from having spent my first two years of senior school at a private school on a freebie because there was no grammar school nearby when I passed my 11 plus (something we had back in the 70's) and being made to play rugby - I was tiny and played at fly half where basically it was about me kicking the ball away quickly enough when I got it before 8 huge boys crushed me, and all this INSTEAD of football, and on Saturday's too.......

You won't get a fair minded comment on rugby from me I'm afraid.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Now who can we offer Falmer to? Doubt the Quins would find it big enough but there must be others. Maybe Wasps would like to come here rather than High Wycombe?

Wasps are quite comfortable at Wycombe, so much so that they're effectively the senior club in the partnership now. Plans are afoot to build a new 24,000 (?) seater stadium in the town to better suit their needs. It's pretty obvious that Wycombe Wanderers have no need for a stadium that size, and it's Wasps that are driving the entire project. WWFC have little choice but to go along with it because Wasps are effectively sustaining them. Looks like they've almost been cannibalised by the rugby club.

Bristol Rovera went the other way of course, they more or less saved Bristol RFC initially by taking over the Memorial Stadium, without which the egg chasers would have gone bust I think?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Fair call, personally I'm still scarred from having spent my first two years of senior school at a private school on a freebie because there was no grammar school nearby when I passed my 11 plus (something we had back in the 70's) and being made to play rugby - I was tiny and played at fly half where basically it was about me kicking the ball away quickly enough when I got it before 8 huge boys crushed me, and all this INSTEAD of football, and on Saturday's too.......

You won't get a fair minded comment on rugby from me I'm afraid.

I can see why you dislike the sport then. It was compulsary at my prep school, but I don't remember anyone really hating the game.

I too was small, but not very fast so I got the unfortunate position of Hooker. Always last out of the scrum and hacked and slapped black and blue. Good fun though.

 

[Mental Lental]

Rugby at all levels is as good as football, at the top level it is streets ahead of most International football as a spectacle

When Johnny Wilkinson was lining up that kick that won us the world cup, the taxi arrived (early) that we had booked to take us to Leicester station to then catch a train to Derby where the Albion were playing that day (I think).

I was up for jumping straight in the cab and my friends all thought I was MAD as I sat in the cab with the meter running while they stayed and watched Johnny Wilkinson kick England to victory.

That's what I think of Rugby as an International sporting spectacle.

 

[Jonno]

No pea-brained rugby shitfest ever on the hallowed Albion turf. Let's not promote this abomination of a sport in our fair county.

 

[Scotty Mac]

I'm sure Reading/Wycombe/Watford felt the same until they adopted London Irish/Wasps/Saracens. Although I guess they are now settled respectively and would not want to relocate again.

aren't saracens looking to relocate in the near future - there were rumours of using wembley permanently not so long ago

 

[xenophon]

No f***ing way, keep the egg-chasers at arm's length. If you want to see how well the two sports 'mix' at one ground, talk to any Stockport County fan.

 

[westy]

Are you on a wind-up ?
Carved up pitch and stupid faded white lines all over the shop. Egg-chasing has NO PLACE at the Amex. NONE.

Spot on. WHY ON EARTH would you want to share our ground with a rugby side?! Weirdest statement ive heard in a while.

 

[Icy Gull]

Spot on. WHY ON EARTH would you want to share our ground with a rugby side?! Weirdest statement ive heard in a while.

So doubling the income of Falmer would be a weird idea? I don't think that there is a cat in hell's chance of it happening but if making money is essential it's a no brainer imo.

 

[rcf0712]

When Johnny Wilkinson was lining up that kick that won us the world cup, the taxi arrived (early) that we had booked to take us to Leicester station to then catch a train to Derby where the Albion were playing that day (I think).

I was up for jumping straight in the cab and my friends all thought I was MAD as I sat in the cab with the meter running while they stayed and watched Johnny Wilkinson kick England to victory.

That's what I think of Rugby as an International sporting spectacle.

I was watching Neil Young in Melbourne when that was on, couldn't have cared less.......

 

[sir albion]

Reading actually play very nice passing football so obviously playing rugby here is not a problem.