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Gregory, try not to take it too personally, it is a discussion.
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Rugby is a sport for fat uncoordinated sport vegetables.
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Gregory, try not to take it too personally, it is a discussion.
Eh? Who are you talking to? Confusing.
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Rugby is easier to play but it def isnt just for 'fat uncoordinated sport vegetables!'
Most Rugby players are stacked! only the front row are fat really. the second row are complete units and the middle and backs are strong and quick!
Most Rugby players are stacked! only the front row are fat really. the second row are complete units and the middle and backs are strong and quick!
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In amateur club rugby, from what I have seen, there are an unbelievable amount of porkers just waiting for a Russell.
Greg Bobkin
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Sorry for the confusion Mellotron, my post was for the benefit of the OP.
I was using your input as a reason for having a third option, as when I mentioned it initially, it was dismissed with said 'petty response'.
Ah yes, the third option would be the right one, but also the boring one. The point of NSC debates are they're all about having ridiculously one-eyed and polarised opinions on everything.
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Because Saturday and Sunday league football players are all finely honed athletes, of course...
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so are a lot of amateur club football players.
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They are indeed but on a different level from my experience.
Rugby was a better game when you had a few fat messes in the forwards. If everyone is fit the game gets too congested, a few wheezing porkers from each side shuffling from set-piece to set-piece made for a more open game and gave space for whippet-thin girly boys to do that double dummy scissors bollocks they liked to practice.
nwgull
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I'm not sure if this is down to the fitness levels, or the law changes reducing the chances of turnovers at the breakdown. Now, unless the defence gets its hands on the ball within about 2 seconds, they know it's not worth trying to compete in the ruck/maul and they'll just step back behind the offside line and line up to make the next tackle.
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Football is surely the easiest game to play? Hence why there are an abundant amount of cloggers playing all over the world. Anyone can play football.
You'll die or kill someone if you are incapable of playing rugby.
You'll die or kill someone if you are incapable of playing rugby.
Brian Fantana
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You require far, far more technical skill to play rugby, regardless of what position you play.
Just look at the skills involved in set pieces in rugby, compared to what is involved in football. For a corner, you will see players generally jostling around and occasionally making very intelligent and dynamic runs into space. The technical abilities involved in a scrum for instance are, in my opinion, vastly superior. It's not just a case of pushing the other team off the ball, you need to bind correctly, get your body position exactly right and maintain a rigid team mentality. You only have to look at what happened to Matt Hampson to see the inherent dangers involved, too.
Compare tackling in football to tackling in rugby, as well. Timing is, of course, absolutely crucial is both sports, but, again, the technique and skill involved in executing an effective rugby tackle is greater - again, just my opinion though!
Finally, look at passing. I'd wager that most of us on here could play a vaguely accurate pass over some distance with a football at our feet. Compare that with the number of us who could throw an accurate rugby pass - I reckon it would be a much lower amount of us.
I could go on, but I can't be bothered.
Just look at the skills involved in set pieces in rugby, compared to what is involved in football. For a corner, you will see players generally jostling around and occasionally making very intelligent and dynamic runs into space. The technical abilities involved in a scrum for instance are, in my opinion, vastly superior. It's not just a case of pushing the other team off the ball, you need to bind correctly, get your body position exactly right and maintain a rigid team mentality. You only have to look at what happened to Matt Hampson to see the inherent dangers involved, too.
Compare tackling in football to tackling in rugby, as well. Timing is, of course, absolutely crucial is both sports, but, again, the technique and skill involved in executing an effective rugby tackle is greater - again, just my opinion though!
Finally, look at passing. I'd wager that most of us on here could play a vaguely accurate pass over some distance with a football at our feet. Compare that with the number of us who could throw an accurate rugby pass - I reckon it would be a much lower amount of us.
I could go on, but I can't be bothered.
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.... are you completely stupid,.... have you seen the pace of those backs?.. they shift mate, and a lot quicker than most of the so called quick players in footy. Every rugby player could slot into a football team and play a part, some better than others of course, 90% of football players would not last 30 seconds on a rugby pitch believe me.
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That is patently bollocks as not only would plenty of rugby players catch him he'd be crying and asking for his mummy after one crunching tackle, no change there then
Apart from watching the Albion I would MUCH rather watch International rugby between the top Northern and Southern Hemisphere teams than any football match, even if Brazil or Spain are involved.
The rules would completely brain freeze most footballers too
Given that most footballers, certainly in the prem, and even the so called "hard men" collapse like they've been shot if someones so much as dares diss their man bag (assuming they aren't removing a phone out of their @rse or getting their solicitor to get them out of their latest rape charge), I would love to see them up against someone like Martin Johnson, Lawrence Dallaglio, Richard Hill etc, or some of the big b@rstard players playing today. They'd be crying for them mum whilst picking up pieces of their bodies.
I love football, I love Rugby a bit more. Other than the Albion, I'd watch any game of rugby over and above any other football game.
I love football, I love Rugby a bit more. Other than the Albion, I'd watch any game of rugby over and above any other football game.
pork pie
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Clearly you are an idiot, who knows little about rugby.
If you truely think that abone beyond the odd Prop is a "fat unconditioned sport vegetable" or are "fat messes" you clearly have not watched much modern rugby.
In my opinion, the beauty of rugby is that it is open to people of all shapes and sizes, providing they are fit and strong. Most positions on the pitch call for different attributes, from small nippy scrum halfs, to giants as locks.
If you look at modern footballers, they nearly all have one thing in common, they are all weeds, including most center halfs and strikers.
If you truely think that abone beyond the odd Prop is a "fat unconditioned sport vegetable" or are "fat messes" you clearly have not watched much modern rugby.
In my opinion, the beauty of rugby is that it is open to people of all shapes and sizes, providing they are fit and strong. Most positions on the pitch call for different attributes, from small nippy scrum halfs, to giants as locks.
If you look at modern footballers, they nearly all have one thing in common, they are all weeds, including most center halfs and strikers.
pork pie
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ElAbds brother used to be a professional rugby player for Bristol, he may still play professionally. I am not sure Adam would be very good as a rugby player, as he is a bit small, and small players need pace which he is lacking. But, he could certainly "do a job" at Clubs playing at Level 5 or below I would have thought.
pork pie
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I suggest you look a little harder at some decent clubs. Maybe you could find a few "plonkers" and let them know your thoughts on them?
If they are tough enough to play rugby, where physical contact is still part of the game (unlike football), they are likely to be punchy enough to give you their answer! lol