Rugby... never popular in Accy?

blazey · 04-10-2009, 19:45

I've recently joined my university girls rugby team and I was saying to the girls how I'd never even seen a game, never mind knowing the rules.

Has rugby never been popular at home?

Oh and it's rugby union by the way. Not sure what the difference is between union and league, so if anyone wants to explain then that would be cool too!

Restless · 04-10-2009, 20:22

i remember at school @ moorhead. Mr Lowe the git would make us play rugby when it rained heavily. Crap those fields got real muddy hehe

West Ender · 04-10-2009, 20:36

Rugby is THE game in these parts, Blazey. Warrington (won the 2009 cup), Widnes, Wigan and St Helens are THE teams but it's Rugby League.

My late husband played Rugby Union, during and after his time in the RAF, and the only difference I'm sure about is that Union has 15 players while League has 13. Both, to me, are violent games, my husband had a dislocated finger, a knocked-out tooth and a broken leg in his playing time, that always end up with very bawdy songs in the clubhouse bar.

Enjoy!

david1 · 04-10-2009, 20:47

They tried rugby at the school i went to , Until someone got a back kick off someones heel in the face as he went to grab his legs ! good luck Blazey ! hehehe

shillelagh · 04-10-2009, 22:19

i dont like it ... too much stopping and starting ..

this tells you the difference ...

The Difference Between Rugby Union and Rugby League

Dont know if accy has rugby team but i know rossendale have .. theyve got 3 teams i think .. they play at marl pits in rawtenstall.

Nickelson · 04-10-2009, 23:29

Yes Accrington has a rugby league team.

Accrington Wildcats and another team for u18's slips my mind.

blazey · 06-10-2009, 20:15

Ah I didn't realise the whole class difference thing between league and union, that is quite interesting.

I've already been punched in the face

blazey · 14-11-2009, 15:41

I can't believe people gave me bad rep for 1. trying a new sport and 2. for saying I had been punched in the face.

Not that I need to JUSTIFY it, but the punch in the face was accidental as a result of a bad collision. So I don't know the rules perfectly, so what? They don't make you learn to recite the rule book before you play sports at school. It's called having fun.

Anyway, I made it on to the first team. Thanks for all the information.

accyman · 14-11-2009, 15:59

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

i dont like it ... too much stopping and starting ..

yet you tolerate it with spuggie

Neil · 14-11-2009, 18:00

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Originally Posted by accyman

yet you tolerate it with spuggie

Please don't, I have just eaten

shillelagh · 14-11-2009, 19:52

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Originally Posted by accyman

yet you tolerate it with spuggie

the only time he stops and starts is when the train has to stop ... and even then its not often .. seeing as its the express train ...

West Ender · 14-11-2009, 23:04

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Originally Posted by blazey

I can't believe people gave me bad rep for 1. trying a new sport and 2. for saying I had been punched in the face.........

Anyway, I made it on to the first team..........

Now bad karma is mean, no need for that. Congrats on making the 1st 15, not my cup of tea but - each to his/her own.

cashman · 14-11-2009, 23:16

Dislike the game never been able to get into it, union or league, but you cart on Blaze, if ya like it, stuff em.

never really bin big though around accy.

Barrie Yates · 14-11-2009, 23:26

Boris Wignall tried to introduce Union to AGS about '53, we hated it, we just wanted to play football, or most of us did. Unfortunately katex came up with a very embarrassing photo of that era - after I had spent my life telling my lads that football was the game.

accyman · 15-11-2009, 01:11

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Originally Posted by cashman

Dislike the game never been able to get into it, union or league, but you cart on Blaze, if ya like it, stuff em.

never really bin big though around accy.

never had much interest for a game where you run forwards only to throw somthing backwards then huddle up and grope each others balls and sniff each others farts .

or was our gym teacher showing us wrong ?