Rugby is a sport for fat uncoordinated sport vegetables.

[Triggaaar]

I'm bored though and looking to pick pointless fights.

Correct. One's good, one's shit. (Disclaimer: not my actual opinion)

If you want to pick a fight, quit with the pussy disclaimers already. Twat.
I'm only joshing, you're my favourite NSC poster!

 

[pork pie]

Many Footballers would be brilliant at scoring a goal in Rugby where the idea is to get the ball above the crossbar.

I'll get my coat on the way out.

Maybe we could offload CMS to Tigers? Oh, on second thoughts his are usually high and wide!

 

[brakespear]

Correct. One's good, one's shit. (Disclaimer: not my actual opinion)

It is mine though. Both codes too. Rugby is by far the dullest sport going imo although my feelings may be clouded by four years being forced to play it at school, when I could have been playing football instead.

 

[pork pie]

Football is the best sport in the world partly because it doesn't matter what your physique is, you can use it to your advantage. You can be 5'0 stick insect, or a 6'8" brick shit house and still play top level football - Rugby is really only accessible to big, fat, muscley people

Is the complete opposite of the truth, with the exception of rugby players of any size needing to be muscley.

 

[Mellotron]

If you want to pick a fight, quit with the pussy disclaimers already. Twat.
I'm only joshing, you're my favourite NSC poster!

f*** the f*** off you f***ing f***.

 

[Triggaaar]

**** the **** off you ****ing ****.

Much better, although you may have forced this valuable thread onto the 'other stuff' section.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I have a daughter who plays rugby at a fairly high (county) level. For the life of me I can't understand why.

Having been made to play rugby at a Grammar School in the late 1960's and then going on to Oxford, the majority of people I came across who played the sport were unreconstructed chauvinistic pillocks and really it was organised hooliganism.

i appreciate that times have changed, but even so................ But the two sports are very different. Personally i don't see the sort of claim that the average football player wouldn't last five minutes on a rugby pitch because the heavier fitter players would tear them to pieces as not being something to be particularly proud of. Just goes to reinforce my view about organised hooliganism

 

[piersa]

Some interesting points but my word the rugby clan are a deluded bunch. It is laughable that you could claim that playing a ball with both your hands is harder than kicking a ball with one of your feet. There are more technical sports than football too.

I think that people just get too protective over their beloved egg. It is not a personal slight against rugby, it is just easier to play and it is generally played by people who are unable to play football and enjoy vomitting all over each other after matches. Good luck to you if that's what you enjoy.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Some interesting points but my word the rugby clan are a deluded bunch. It is laughable that you could claim that playing a ball with both your hands is harder than kicking a ball with one of your feet. There are more technical sports than football too.

I think that people just get too protective over their beloved egg. It is not a personal slight against rugby, it is just easier to play and it is generally played by people who are unable to play football and enjoy vomitting all over each other after matches. Good luck to you if that's what you enjoy.

It's not even egg shaped.

Is it easier to play? How did you get on in the rugby world?

The proof is in the pudding. Fewer people are able to deal with calculus than addition. Is that easier? Fewer people are able to play rugby than football, is that harder?

 

[piersa]

It's not even egg shaped.

Is it easier to play? How did you get on in the rugby world?

The proof is in the pudding. Fewer people are able to deal with calculus than addition. Is that easier? Fewer people are able to play rugby than football, is that harder?

I played rugby and found it very easy. You are missing my point. It is my theory that egg chasing is easier to play than football because you use your hands instead of your feet due to the proprioception and mechanoreception respectively.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

It's not even egg shaped.

Is it easier to play? How did you get on in the rugby world?

The proof is in the pudding. Fewer people are able to deal with calculus than addition. Is that easier? Fewer people are able to play rugby than football, is that harder?

Fewer people try to play rugby than football - not are able to, necessarily. How often do you see kids kicking a rugby ball around in a park. How often do you kids kicking a football around in the park? For most people football is a more attractive game to play.

 

[Mr Terrific]

It is my theory that egg chasing is easier to play than football because you use your hands instead of your feet due to the proprioception and mechanoreception respectively.

You use your hands as well as your feet in rugby, not instead of.

And I bet you couldn't even explain what proprioception or mechanoreception are without pasting from Wikipedia.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I have a daughter who plays rugby at a fairly high (county) level. For the life of me I can't understand why.

Having been made to play rugby at a Grammar School in the late 1960's and then going on to Oxford, the majority of people I came across who played the sport were unreconstructed chauvinistic pillocks and really it was organised hooliganism.

i appreciate that times have changed, but even so................ But the two sports are very different. Personally i don't see the sort of claim that the average football player wouldn't last five minutes on a rugby pitch because the heavier fitter players would tear them to pieces as not being something to be particularly proud of. Just goes to reinforce my view about organised hooliganism

Sorry about the double negative. Take out a "not". Should have been "Personally i don't see the sort of claim that the average football player wouldn't last five minutes on a rugby pitch because the heavier fitter players would tear them to pieces as being something to be particularly proud of

 

[piersa]

You use your hands as well as your feet in rugby, not instead of.

And I bet you couldn't even explain what proprioception or mechanoreception are without pasting from Wikipedia.

you would lose your money.

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

The games are too different to compare. The argument that it is much harder to control the ball with your feet than hands is negated but the two different shapes of ball. The round ball much easier to predict bounce, the oval ball is a complete lottery some of the time.
Rugby players have got bigger and fitter in recent years. 30 years ago it was rare to find a back anywhere near 13 stone. Nowadays 15 stone is commonplace. The talented ball players of the past e.g. Barry John, Mike Gibson, Phil Bennett etc were all small slim men, now the only smaller player tends to be the scrum half. Everyone states footballers are much fitter than in the past but we now have some managers claiming that their players are tired after 15 games.
Rugby still allows proper physical contact. Football is trying to eliminate it.
Referees are wired up in rugby. They should be in football but can't as every parent watching and listening would never let their child ever go near a football field.
Fit, strong, athletic rugby players crash through tackles that make the earth shudder. Fit, strong, athletic footballers go down at the slightest touch and often when there is no touch at all.
Footballers play-act continually. Rugby players don't.
Footballers earn far more, on average, than their ability and contribution warrants. Rugby players don't.
Football is a simple game that the whole world can understand. Some people try and complicate it to give it more credibility but you still cannot disguise its basic simplicity. Rugby is a deeper, more complicated game and tends to attract players from a different background. i.e the private and public schools.
Rugby players interview better and generally appear better educated. Most footballers trot out simplistic, cliched answers and lack a full education.
Every rugby player I have ever met ( and that includes the highest level ) all play the game because they love it. Every game they play is full-out, no quarter given, for 80 minutes. A lot of them can barely drag themselves off the field at the end. Even if they have been soundly beaten, every fan knows that every member of that team has given their all for the cause.
I wish we could say the same for football.

As a season ticket holder at Harlequins, this has saved me a long entry.

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

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.

This and more

 

[Questions]

I'm probably gonna get scolded for sweeping generalisations but 90% of Rugby players i've met, and I've met a lot, have been beligerant, self satisfied oafs.

I suggest you stop hanging around rugby club bars then.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I played rugby and found it very easy. You are missing my point. It is my theory that egg chasing is easier to play than football because you use your hands instead of your feet due to the proprioception and mechanoreception respectively.

Is using our hands easier? I'm sure there are more well rewarded and infamous foot specialists i.e. footballers than hand specialists i.e. pianists, rugby players, tennis players, thumb wrestlers

That would suggest that using ones feet is infinitely easier.

Fewer people try to play rugby than football - not are able to, necessarily. How often do you see kids kicking a rugby ball around in a park. How often do you kids kicking a football around in the park? For most people football is a more attractive game to play.

Kids pick the easy option. Why would one volunteer to have their body put through the mangle when they falsely believe that they are entitled to earn megabucks by kicking a ball about?

It's more attractive to play as you only need two of you. Hell, you can have a decent kickabout on your own.

 

[pork pie]

Fewer people try to play rugby than football - not are able to, necessarily. How often do you see kids kicking a rugby ball around in a park. How often do you kids kicking a football around in the park? For most people football is a more attractive game to play.

The south is not a rugby area, so your perception is limited. Try looking in the South-West, Midlands or North-East where people are tougher, and the game is far more widespread. Your daughter plays, but you were never tough enough - says it all really.

 

[ezzoud]

I played rugby and found it very easy.

Who did you play for and which elements did you find "very easy"?

You might well find it easier to control a ball with your hands than with your feet but that's not actually all there is to either sport is it?