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over a year ago
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Football -A game played by teams of 11, running around for 90 minutes pretending to be injured.
Rugby - A game played by teams of 15, running around for 80 mnutes pretending not to be injured.
Let the sparks fly!!!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Football -A game played by teams of 11, running around for 90 minutes pretending to be injured.
Rugby - A game played by teams of 15, running around for 80 mnutes pretending not to be injured.
Let the sparks fly!!! "
So you're saying both footballers and rugby players are pretending. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Football: a gentleman's game for thugs.
Rugby: a thugs game for gentlemen.
I must admit that I love both but having played both I have so much more respect for rugby players, its such a tough game physically. |
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I detest football and the way it invades all the media. Rugby, I don't watch, I'm ambivalent to it, but it isn't in my face 24/7 365 days a year and the fans are not mental. |
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I've never understood the violence associated with football. Like in the liberty stadium and I expect every other football stadium there's different entrances for the away team and the supporters have to be seated separately but in rugby you can sit right next to the side you're playing and nobody kicks off.
I prefer rugby any day of the week. Actually spent £268 for a ticket for the Wales/England 6 nations game next month! L9 which I believe is by the tunnel, may faint and land on top of mike phillips! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've never understood the violence associated with football. Like in the liberty stadium and I expect every other football stadium there's different entrances for the away team and the supporters have to be seated separately but in rugby you can sit right next to the side you're playing and nobody kicks off.
I prefer rugby any day of the week. Actually spent £268 for a ticket for the Wales/England 6 nations game next month! L9 which I believe is by the tunnel, may faint and land on top of mike phillips!"
Very true about the supporters. Watched a premier match years ago and we scored a blistering try, an opposing fan sat infront turned around and said 'nice try, great score' you wouldn't get that in football |
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"I've never understood the violence associated with football. Like in the liberty stadium and I expect every other football stadium there's different entrances for the away team and the supporters have to be seated separately but in rugby you can sit right next to the side you're playing and nobody kicks off.
I prefer rugby any day of the week. Actually spent £268 for a ticket for the Wales/England 6 nations game next month! L9 which I believe is by the tunnel, may faint and land on top of mike phillips!
Very true about the supporters. Watched a premier match years ago and we scored a blistering try, an opposing fan sat infront turned around and said 'nice try, great score' you wouldn't get that in football"
You would. This weekend has tales of fans getting on with each other when a big club has played a lower league / non league team. It may happen with a BIG vs BIG but not on the scale, its the few that give the sport a bad name.
One of the worst fights I have seen was at cricket but again (imo) it was football hoolies in the off season. |
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"Very true about the supporters. Watched a premier match years ago and we scored a blistering try, an opposing fan sat infront turned around and said 'nice try, great score' you wouldn't get that in football
You would. This weekend has tales of fans getting on with each other when a big club has played a lower league / non league team. "
The Derby fans applauded the Southport team off the pitch  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Very true about the supporters. Watched a premier match years ago and we scored a blistering try, an opposing fan sat infront turned around and said 'nice try, great score' you wouldn't get that in football
You would. This weekend has tales of fans getting on with each other when a big club has played a lower league / non league team.
Not in the least patronising then!
The Derby fans applauded the Southport team off the pitch "
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"Very true about the supporters. Watched a premier match years ago and we scored a blistering try, an opposing fan sat infront turned around and said 'nice try, great score' you wouldn't get that in football
You would. This weekend has tales of fans getting on with each other when a big club has played a lower league / non league team.
Not in the least patronising then!
The Derby fans applauded the Southport team off the pitch "
derby scored the winning goal 2 minutes into injury time . if southport had scored a last minute penalty do you think the derby supporters would have applauded southport off the field then, |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Both sports are awesome. Done.
As for the fans......in the main ive found fans of both sports are great. In the minority ive found football fans are thugs and rugby union fans are pretentious wankers.
But the worst crowd violence ive ever seen was at St helens vs wigan, that's rugby.
Go figure |
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"That is all hypothetical, but my post was in response to someone mentioning the violence that supposedly occurs at football matches but not at rugby  "
Id already hinted at it two posts above. Did you also notice the bigger teams players NOT celebrating.
Cardiff built up a great rapport with Chasetown a few years back, we ended up helping them out all season and since with kit, balls, raffle prizes etc.
Its the magic of the cup |
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"Very true about the supporters. Watched a premier match years ago and we scored a blistering try, an opposing fan sat infront turned around and said 'nice try, great score' you wouldn't get that in football
You would. This weekend has tales of fans getting on with each other when a big club has played a lower league / non league team.
Not in the least patronising then!
The Derby fans applauded the Southport team off the pitch
derby scored the winning goal 2 minutes into injury time . if southport had scored a last minute penalty do you think the derby supporters would have applauded southport off the field then, "
No I dont, not just Derby, any fan, most if not all sports |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Rugby all day long.
Played both and the social aspect of rugby far far outweighs anything football has to offer.
...alas this is my last season playing so I will miss all of the on field banter and after game socialising  |
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"Both sports are awesome. Done.
As for the fans......in the main ive found fans of both sports are great. In the minority ive found football fans are thugs and rugby union fans are pretentious wankers.
But the worst crowd violence ive ever seen was at St helens vs wigan, that's rugby.
Go figure"
it's a bit different here in wales ..... unlike in england, rugby isn't a game for toffs and as a result there has always been rugby hooliganism on a massive scale but the binge drinking and extreme violence loving yobo rugby culture here in wales is somehow acceptable in society and the media. it's pretty gruesome in towns on a saturday night with the rugby shirt wearing steroid taking thugs take to the streets and cause havoc. and with high profile players having punch ups with members of the public in bars and trains etc. driving golf buggies down the M4 pissed out of their minds and even d*unkenly stealing taxi's and joyriding them around town, how are they supposed to be role models? as a sport it's alright but the arguement that eveyone concerned with the game is a gentleman, load of bollocks, they behave just like any other overpaid sportspeople when they think they're out of the public gaze. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I think football will always be more popular than rugby simply because it's a much easier game to play and understand. Kids will kick a ball about anywhere, and yes, jumpers make great goalposts. Rugby is a bit more involved and has a greater degree of organisation.
I played both back when my legs could move fast enough to be termed as "running" but I always preferred playing rugby but watching football.
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"Rugby all day long.
Played both and the social aspect of rugby far far outweighs anything football has to offer.
...alas this is my last season playing so I will miss all of the on field banter and after game socialising "
What do you mean 'social aspect' and 'anything football has to offer'?
Whatever you mean, perhaps you didnt get to see the social side of football? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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it's a bit different here in wales ..... unlike in england, rugby isn't a game for toffs ."
Not sure which teams you've watched or played against but I can assure you most players in England are not toffs!! |
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it's a bit different here in wales ..... unlike in england, rugby isn't a game for toffs .
Not sure which teams you've watched or played against but I can assure you most players in England are not toffs!!"
A lot of fans are.
Twickers, HQ, Jonners and all that, its how its percieved. But it must be said, people call it a gentlemans game, I think the gents support it. |
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£705 for a world cup final ticket. You cant go wrong. Brazil last yeah the tickets were ridiculous.
eng vs aus group game 28 squid. Not bad.
I spent 68 on a soccer ticket boxing day. I must be mad.
Btw i prefer rugby as i still play.
Women seem to prefer the rugby player build compared to a soccer players.  |
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"£705 for a world cup final ticket. You cant go wrong. Brazil last yeah the tickets were ridiculous.
eng vs aus group game 28 squid. Not bad.
I spent 68 on a soccer ticket boxing day. I must be mad.
Btw i prefer rugby as i still play.
Women seem to prefer the rugby player build compared to a soccer players. "
You have just compared a world cup final to a world cup group match. A little unfair dont you think.
Football is over priced, I cant afford to go.
Well at least the top level stuff is in England/Wales |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Football - where men jump about and fake injury and generally act like pansies
Rugby - where men cosy up and get each other's sweaty balls all over their faces, nose up cracks and rubbing each others dicks  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Can't say I'm a massive fan of either really....
Maybe back in the day when the sucsess of a team was dictated more by the quality of the local talent but its become a game of money now and who can afford the best players.
I don't know much about either game but I bet the average team these days has very few players born or raised within say 40 miles of its home stadium.
Having said that, I bet it applies to a lot of team sports these days.... |
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Cardiff Blues £23 for a seat £19 to stand up. (Rugby)
Cardiff City £35 (Football)
Cardiff Devils £15 (Ice Hockey)
Glamorgan T20 £10 (Cricket)
Wales Rugby £75 but I stand to be corrected on that, thats for a decent international.
Great city to live in for sport but a lot is over priced |
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"Football = 22 overpaid nancies chasing a bag of air around a field.
Rugby = competitive sport.
No competition really!"
Why isnt Rugby bigger than football then?
Bare in mind its my countries national sport |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Cricket....more injuries and tragedies than football and rugby put together"
Just this season my rugby team has had:
Two broken legs (one with a dislocated ankle)
Two broken hands
A blown out knee
3 x knock outs and concussion
1 x stage 3 shoulder separation
And a broken nose.
Luckily none of the above have been inflicted on me! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Football -A game played by teams of 11, running around for 90 minutes pretending to be injured.
Rugby - A game played by teams of 15, running around for 80 mnutes pretending not to be injured.
Let the sparks fly!!! "
I've played both, and to be fair the type of injuries and knocks you get in football really fucking hurt for a very brief period of time. It's a bit like when you stub your toe and it flares up massively, then subsides. Impact injuries from kicking people etc.
In rugby there's a more overall contact with the entire body, so it's quite different in that respect.
When a footballer is rolling around hurt, then gets up within about 30 seconds, I can actually understand that - mind you, they do of course feign injury as well.
PLENTY of cheating in rugby I can assure you! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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it's a bit different here in wales ..... unlike in england, rugby isn't a game for toffs .
Not sure which teams you've watched or played against but I can assure you most players in England are not toffs!!
A lot of fans are.
Twickers, HQ, Jonners and all that, its how its percieved. But it must be said, people call it a gentlemans game, I think the gents support it."
Just point out that Jonners was a cricket commentator (TMS) and nothing to do with either football or rugby!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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it's a bit different here in wales ..... unlike in england, rugby isn't a game for toffs .
Not sure which teams you've watched or played against but I can assure you most players in England are not toffs!!
A lot of fans are.
Twickers, HQ, Jonners and all that, its how its percieved. But it must be said, people call it a gentlemans game, I think the gents support it.
Just point out that Jonners was a cricket commentator (TMS) and nothing to do with either football or rugby!!"
Jonners = Martin Johnson, England's World Cup winning captain  |
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