Rugby is shit, nobody understands it, and anyone who watches it is akin to a lady's inguinal region

[Leonard Hatred]

Fuck off.

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Careful Leonard,

You're going to upset the society of prejudice against brayers...MOO!

Bill Beaumont

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Barbour

ozone - layer  and wedgies

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

DUSTY SON... https://images.app.goo.gl/HhwudcjM6AN7RFFZ6...



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[Monsieur merde de cheval]

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[Monsieur merde de cheval]

DUSTY HARE ..


Fair play to his parents ..that's a classic

 

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

 Big Len .
come and blow my house down.

be​​​​​ doing me a favour 


 

[yngwies Cat]

Barbour

[F 129 Row66]

[Shropshire_Iron]

I agree...although I watch RASSLIN on a weekly basis and yes I know its NOT FUCKING REAL

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Probably stating the obvious but, all the most gifted kids at sport wanted to play football and cricket. The game is played by steroid fuelled, fat, posh blokes. Not that much skill required, just catching an egg shaped thing, running and crashing into people. The scrum is an appalling display of brute strength and homo-eroticism. Mind you it's 20 times more exciting than American rugby, but that's saying very little.

Depends which school you attended .
I Fink the hatred of rugby union  by some is a form of childhood trauma.
Leonard and his 'forgot me kit ' WANKERS  were the cunts writing lines in the changing rooms whilst the rest of us got out there and got stuck in.
KNOW WHAT I MEAN

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Fuck off.

Rugby is brilliant at international level.  Anybody failing to understand it is clearly as thick as fuck and has the IQ of a fucking brain dead lobotomised Sloth.  

Leonard; you're clearly a fucking deranged thick cսnt.  (Meant without malice)

No.. please mean with malice..
The wagon man  will  be none the wiser anyhow

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Fuck off.

Rugby is brilliant at international level.  Anybody failing to understand it is clearly as thick as fuck and has the IQ of a fucking brain dead lobotomised Sloth.  

Leonard; you're clearly a fucking deranged thick cսnt.  (Meant without malice)

What do you expect ?
BIg Len  drives a wagon and admires Yosser Hughes ...so clearly a deranged thick cսnt with a limited vocabulary of 1.2..3

[Ron Eff]

Don’t dislike rugby union (league is better - ball in play more often), but never really played it. We told our PE teachers we had no interest in playing it at school - just wanted to play football and cricket. They agreed!

What I do find odd is just how bad England are at union. About the third/fourth best team in Europe - which is vastly inferior to the southern hem sides. Considering there are only ten “decent” or better rugby playing nations in the world, quite how England contrive to be so utterly shit at the sport on a regular basis is genuinely beyond me.

They’ll finish below Ireland and France, and possibly Scotland, again this year. Add NZ, South Africa, Australia and possibly the Argies (on occasions) on top, too, and it’s embarrassing.

Posh people are fucking useless.

Southbank . I agree reference England being usless now for like 20 years in the Six Nations. You can maybe argue that every team except Italy wants to beat us more than any other. However in the WC we have been far more successful. In fact has any European country ever eliminated us? Maybe Wales I'm not sure. 

I mean England have won it 3 times in the last 10 years, including one grand slam, so the 20 year comment isn’t quite right!

I know every team has been guilty of it, including England, but take the two Kiwi’s Lowe and Gibson Park away from the Micks, and the Saffa Van der Merwe from the sweaties, and they are very different teams!

[Bungo]

As ever, the most important thing to remember is avoid Twickenham and the A316 tomorrow afternoon...

[Alwaysaniron]

Fuck off.

Rugby is brilliant at international level.  Anybody failing to understand it is clearly as thick as fuck and has the IQ of a fucking brain dead lobotomised Sloth.  

Leonard; you're clearly a fucking deranged thick cսnt.  (Meant without malice)

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

https://www.facebook.com/share/1681QGHLP6/

I'd bang it

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Southbank . I agree reference England being usless now for like 20 years in the Six Nations. You can maybe argue that every team except Italy wants to beat us more than any other. However in the WC we have been far more successful. In fact has any European country ever eliminated us? Maybe Wales I'm not sure. 

 

Swiss - you’re absolutely right: England have tended to perform well at World Cups - certainly relative to their year-on-year achievements.

But you could argue that one World Cup win is not great for the country that has the highest number of registered clubs and teen/male participants globally, and an RFU (at least, although not clubs) that is resource rich.

I’m no expert - it’s not a sport I read much about - but it strikes me that it’s a poorly run sport, professionally,  in England and that far smaller states - NZ and Ireland (currently) most notably - achieve more on a lot less. In NZ’s case, of course, considerably more.

I’d be interested to hear what the well-informed rugby mob think lies behind that (I’m sure there are many reasons: cultural, finances etc). But realistically there are 10-12 “decent” rugby playing nations globally - including the likes of Italy, Samoa and Fiji. It’s quite an achievement by England to be regularly around the bottom 50% of those states. Few would argue that, since 2003, SA, NZ, Australia (up and down), France and Ireland have been stronger more regularly. Wales, too, at times.

Perennial under-achievers, England.

Could also be that our players play twice as many games as all the other international players, as such we get constant injuries and tiredness 

The paddies have nailed the system..
The Jocks are not far behind .

A Fijian paddy ??

A Somoan Jock ?

Get to fuck 

Next your be telling me Skinner was 
a scrum half 

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Weller now 'drives' a train at Ruislip lido twice a week as a piss take 
Pensioned up to hilt too
 

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Fuck off.

[JAC]

What a stupid ,childish thread.

[F 129 Row66]

Probably stating the obvious but, all the most gifted kids at sport wanted to play football and cricket. The game is played by steroid fuelled, fat, posh blokes. Not that much skill required, just catching an egg shaped thing, running and crashing into people. The scrum is an appalling display of brute strength and homo-eroticism. Mind you it's 20 times more exciting than American rugby, but that's saying very little.

[Council Scum]

 

Swiss - you’re absolutely right: England have tended to perform well at World Cups - certainly relative to their year-on-year achievements.

But you could argue that one World Cup win is not great for the country that has the highest number of registered clubs and teen/male participants globally, and an RFU (at least, although not clubs) that is resource rich.

I’m no expert - it’s not a sport I read much about - but it strikes me that it’s a poorly run sport, professionally,  in England and that far smaller states - NZ and Ireland (currently) most notably - achieve more on a lot less. In NZ’s case, of course, considerably more.

I’d be interested to hear what the well-informed rugby mob think lies behind that (I’m sure there are many reasons: cultural, finances etc). But realistically there are 10-12 “decent” rugby playing nations globally - including the likes of Italy, Samoa and Fiji. It’s quite an achievement by England to be regularly around the bottom 50% of those states. Few would argue that, since 2003, SA, NZ, Australia (up and down), France and Ireland have been stronger more regularly. Wales, too, at times.

Perennial under-achievers, England.

Could also be that our players play twice as many games as all the other international players, as such we get constant injuries and tiredness 

I don't know enough about the fixture lists for each country's players, but I'm prepared to accept that England probably overplays its top-level players. We do it with other sports, too, so we have form!

But that can't be the only reason for poor performances. For example, they've regularly lost their opening fixture of the Six Nations in recent years (immediately bursting the bubble of City bankers' expectations!) - and that's at a point when there has generally been a fair amount of prep time for games, and when other teams have had similar amounts of rest and prep time. At that point, injuries I get, tiredness I don't.

To an outsider looking in, it seems that England produce a general quality of player below where they should be given their resources and numbers. Some talented players, sure. But never enough of them at any one time. That golden generation under Woodward seemed to be the exception. That pack (Johnson, Dallaglio, Back, Hill, Kay etc) was phenomenal.

Better rugby fans than me will know why that's the case.

There was a thing a few years ago, when they listed the games the Irish had played going into the 6 nations, Sexton had only played 10 games (mainly european) to our 30. It makes a huge difference in a contact sport. 

[southbankbornnbred]

Southbank . I agree reference England being usless now for like 20 years in the Six Nations. You can maybe argue that every team except Italy wants to beat us more than any other. However in the WC we have been far more successful. In fact has any European country ever eliminated us? Maybe Wales I'm not sure. 

 

Swiss - you’re absolutely right: England have tended to perform well at World Cups - certainly relative to their year-on-year achievements.

But you could argue that one World Cup win is not great for the country that has the highest number of registered clubs and teen/male participants globally, and an RFU (at least, although not clubs) that is resource rich.

I’m no expert - it’s not a sport I read much about - but it strikes me that it’s a poorly run sport, professionally,  in England and that far smaller states - NZ and Ireland (currently) most notably - achieve more on a lot less. In NZ’s case, of course, considerably more.

I’d be interested to hear what the well-informed rugby mob think lies behind that (I’m sure there are many reasons: cultural, finances etc). But realistically there are 10-12 “decent” rugby playing nations globally - including the likes of Italy, Samoa and Fiji. It’s quite an achievement by England to be regularly around the bottom 50% of those states. Few would argue that, since 2003, SA, NZ, Australia (up and down), France and Ireland have been stronger more regularly. Wales, too, at times.

Perennial under-achievers, England.

Could also be that our players play twice as many games as all the other international players, as such we get constant injuries and tiredness 

I don't know enough about the fixture lists for each country's players, but I'm prepared to accept that England probably overplays its top-level players. We do it with other sports, too, so we have form!

But that can't be the only reason for poor performances. For example, they've regularly lost their opening fixture of the Six Nations in recent years (immediately bursting the bubble of City bankers' expectations!) - and that's at a point when there has generally been a fair amount of prep time for games, and when other teams have had similar amounts of rest and prep time. At that point, injuries I get, tiredness I don't.

To an outsider looking in, it seems that England produce a general quality of player below where they should be given their resources and numbers. Some talented players, sure. But never enough of them at any one time. That golden generation under Woodward seemed to be the exception. That pack (Johnson, Dallaglio, Back, Hill, Kay etc) was phenomenal.

Better rugby fans than me will know why that's the case.

[Council Scum]

Don’t dislike rugby union (league is better - ball in play more often), but never really played it. We told our PE teachers we had no interest in playing it at school - just wanted to play football and cricket. They agreed!

What I do find odd is just how bad England are at union. About the third/fourth best team in Europe - which is vastly inferior to the southern hem sides. Considering there are only ten “decent” or better rugby playing nations in the world, quite how England contrive to be so utterly shit at the sport on a regular basis is genuinely beyond me.

They’ll finish below Ireland and France, and possibly Scotland, again this year. Add NZ, South Africa, Australia and possibly the Argies (on occasions) on top, too, and it’s embarrassing.

Posh people are fucking useless.

Southbank . I agree reference England being usless now for like 20 years in the Six Nations. You can maybe argue that every team except Italy wants to beat us more than any other. However in the WC we have been far more successful. In fact has any European country ever eliminated us? Maybe Wales I'm not sure. 

 

Swiss - you’re absolutely right: England have tended to perform well at World Cups - certainly relative to their year-on-year achievements.

But you could argue that one World Cup win is not great for the country that has the highest number of registered clubs and teen/male participants globally, and an RFU (at least, although not clubs) that is resource rich.

I’m no expert - it’s not a sport I read much about - but it strikes me that it’s a poorly run sport, professionally,  in England and that far smaller states - NZ and Ireland (currently) most notably - achieve more on a lot less. In NZ’s case, of course, considerably more.

I’d be interested to hear what the well-informed rugby mob think lies behind that (I’m sure there are many reasons: cultural, finances etc). But realistically there are 10-12 “decent” rugby playing nations globally - including the likes of Italy, Samoa and Fiji. It’s quite an achievement by England to be regularly around the bottom 50% of those states. Few would argue that, since 2003, SA, NZ, Australia (up and down), France and Ireland have been stronger more regularly. Wales, too, at times.

Perennial under-achievers, England.

Could also be that our players play twice as many games as all the other international players, as such we get constant injuries and tiredness 

[Far Cough UKunt]

ABs - Very technical
Boks - strength all over

That's as much as I know.

Like to see Georgia in the six or seven nations, if they aren't already?