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Am I wrong about club rugby being appallingly supported compared to either football or the 6 nations? It doesn’t even sell out in cup finals, does it?
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They should make the rules simpler then, then more people might actually go to watch it, rather than there being literally thousands and thousands of empty seats at every single game apart from at the absolute elite level.
Am I wrong about club rugby being appallingly supported compared to either football or the 6 nations? It doesn’t even sell out in cup finals, does it?
If I wanted to go watch a professional rugby match would the nearest place for me to do so be Twickenham? Seems mad there are sod all teams in the SE.
Sorry but that is absolute rubbish.
Rugby is very much a working class sport in Wales, West of England and New Zealand
It’s the national sport (alongside sheep worrying). The streets are deserted here on match days.It’s not though is it, it’s played equally by both classes and is massively entrenched in the Welsh private school system; similar in the West Country.
Have you seen Harlequins crowds? They even let them use Twickenham for big games
Am I wrong about club rugby being appallingly supported compared to either football or the 6 nations? It doesn’t even sell out in cup finals, does it?
Even when we are on the top of our game we struggle ar Murrayfield. We have often lost Grand Slams or Triple Crowns there when we have been blinding in previous games. After two really shit unimaginative performances I think we need to step it up big time
Narrow England win for me
As for the rules. They are pretty easy to understand, more difficult than football but not by much. At least in rugby they are applied properly, something that the modern day refs seem to have a great deal of difficulty doing. As Kevin ‘no’ friends showed at the weekend.
I enjoy watching rugby, and have watched a fair amount over the years having never played the game. There are simple rules, line out throws must be straight etc but mostly they are really difficult to understand. I used to put it down to never having played the game but I think that the problem is two fold. A lot of the time spectators can't see a lot of what is going on. It's a small pitch with 15 big blokes on with the biggest ones tending to follow the ball. It's fine watching 6 nations on the box with experts and camera angles, but if you're there a lot of what goes on is guesswork. The second problem is related to the first is that a lot of effort goes into pushing the rules, both in terms of setting out to deceive the ref and opposition, and also just pushing the rules as far as they can. Oh, and third fold - they do seem to change quite often.
Watching sevens is easy. The full team version, not so.
I played rugby until my mid 20’s when a knee injury put an end to it. I ref’d a few 2nd and 3rd stream games at uni.
Basically, no handling in the ruck, no collapsing mauls, no tripping, no forward passes, no knocking on or going in from the side which are easy enough to understand. Knowing the difference between a ruck and a maul helps.
Difficult bit is always ‘going in over the top’ which is now much easier to understand, as the defending team has to stay on their feet.
One area that is confusing is penalties during scrummaging. Basically the team moving forward or have the put in seem to get the benefit of the doubt.
Yes, players try and stretch the rules BUT they under stand that the refs word is final hence the lack of gobbing off that you get with football.