| Rugby What Is The Point ? 13:54 - Nov 11 with 3084 views | SaintNick |
Exactly what the question says |  |
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| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 19:42 - Nov 12 with 0 views | Ninja9 |
| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 10:19 - Nov 12 by franniesTache |
Yeah definitely a posh person's game, plus also i've always found rugby fans really judgemental and like to look down on people. |
You need to get out more mush .
I went to Eden Park twice last year , once All BLACKS V Australia and once All Blacks v South Africa .
Fantastic experience and the fans were a pleasure to drink with .
Posh , your avin a laugh . |  | | |
| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 19:51 - Nov 12 with 0 views | shotters |
| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 19:42 - Nov 12 by Ninja9 |
You need to get out more mush .
I went to Eden Park twice last year , once All BLACKS V Australia and once All Blacks v South Africa .
Fantastic experience and the fans were a pleasure to drink with .
Posh , your avin a laugh . |
Different situation in NZ though
It's the national sport there
Whilst over visiting my sister in-law and brother in-law in Auckland we sat up to watch the all blacks beat South Africa in their own back yard, the game just left me disinterested, admittedly I didn't understand what the rules were |  |
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| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 20:06 - Nov 12 with 0 views | Joiedevivre |
| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 10:19 - Nov 12 by franniesTache |
Yeah definitely a posh person's game, plus also i've always found rugby fans really judgemental and like to look down on people. |
Yes, definitely for me rugby (ruggers) has always been associated with private schools and posh people. That may be the reason why I don’t like to watch it; though if I ever do it’s about 10 seconds of in-play action, foul, 10 seconds, foul.
The only person I know in my life who likes it is a colleague at work. Much as your depiction of how the imagined rugby fan is, he’s shocked to hear rugby is seen as posh, but then takes a dull view of football fans as all thuggish. In a rather snobbish way. [Post edited 12 Nov 20:07]
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| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 20:23 - Nov 12 with 0 views | yateleysaint |
Those pints of piss aren’t going to drink themselves and rugby was a vital outlet when homosexuality was criminalised. |  |
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| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 20:49 - Nov 12 with 0 views | grumpy |
There's some schools in Southampton that played Rugby when I played and I can assure you they were not posh. |  | | |
| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 21:51 - Nov 12 with 0 views | kernow |
I like to watch rugby, both codes.
Played at school, wasn't bad at it, just too fragile. | | | |
| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 19:16 - Nov 13 with 0 views | Bazza |
| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 20:06 - Nov 12 by Joiedevivre |
Yes, definitely for me rugby (ruggers) has always been associated with private schools and posh people. That may be the reason why I don’t like to watch it; though if I ever do it’s about 10 seconds of in-play action, foul, 10 seconds, foul.
The only person I know in my life who likes it is a colleague at work. Much as your depiction of how the imagined rugby fan is, he’s shocked to hear rugby is seen as posh, but then takes a dull view of football fans as all thuggish. In a rather snobbish way. [Post edited 12 Nov 20:07]
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Never once heard anyone call it ruggers. You’re must be reading Billy Bunter stories. I do remember playing alongside several London taxi cab drivers hard as nails. The general feeling was footballers were overpaid (who doesn’t think so) soft dilettantes.
Same club as Andy Ripley - anyone remember him in tv superstars? | | | |
| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 21:27 - Nov 13 with 0 views | HytheFerrytales |
One answer to the original thread's question is on TV right now.
Helluva game France vs SA.
Look at the 30 starters plus subs and see if you can find any that you would be tempted to go up to and call a posho softy. | | | |
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| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 07:19 - Nov 14 with 0 views | shotters |
| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 21:27 - Nov 13 by HytheFerrytales |
One answer to the original thread's question is on TV right now.
Helluva game France vs SA.
Look at the 30 starters plus subs and see if you can find any that you would be tempted to go up to and call a posho softy. |
Don't think anyones called rugby players softys mate
The posh view comes from experience based on where I live
If I lived in Leicester, Northampton or Llanelli then my experience of people playing and watching rugby may have been different | |
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| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 07:32 - Nov 14 with 0 views | Joiedevivre |
| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 07:19 - Nov 14 by shotters |
Don't think anyones called rugby players softys mate
The posh view comes from experience based on where I live
If I lived in Leicester, Northampton or Llanelli then my experience of people playing and watching rugby may have been different |
I just had a quick google..
“In England, over 40% to 61% of top-level English rugby union players and Premiership squads attended fee-paying independent schools—far exceeding the national average of about 7% for the general population“
“The sport grew out of 19th-century English public schools (such as Rugby School in Warwickshire), where it was largely played by the sons of the clergy, gentry, and upper-middle classes“
“The class association applies primarily to rugby union. In contrast, rugby league historically developed as a working-class sport in the industrial North of England“
So seems about right. For the north it’s more likely to be accessible; for the south, many people associated it with the upper classes (not softy, but posh). [Post edited 14 Nov 7:34]
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| Rugby What Is The Point ? on 10:35 - Nov 14 with 0 views | Wints76 |
I've tried to watch rugby but find it impenetrable. I can't tell what is a foul and what isn't and the game never seems to flow. Even when England won that World Cup I couldnt even begin to feign interest. I definitely think there is a class issue around these parts as well. Many a time I have stood on Winchester Station catching a train to Southampton for the match, and opposite there is a peacock like display of coloured (mostly red) trousers with pastel sweaters draped over the shoulder, on their way to HQ to watch England against one of the colonies
A friend of mine moved to this area from South Walea and follows Cardiff City and Northampton Rugby. He said that he found rugby fans from this area to be very much the posher types but it isn't like that in the rest of the country. Certainly Rugby League fans seem to be normal 🙂
Another lad from our Primary school (a farmers son) wasnt that good at football, but he ended up captaining Scotland at Rugby. He was a top lad though, despite being a bit posher than us 😉 |  | | |
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