Originally Posted by
TaketheCannoli
First up I admit I'm a football fan through and through. Always have been as a player and a fan.
I like to think of myself also as patriotic, especially when it comes to sport, so I like to try to watch our teams in whatever sport we play especially at major tournaments.
So I've tried, Lord help me I've tried, to watch some of the rugby. I just don't get it. What an utterly pointless and boring sport.
Huge dudes, some of which are so fat they can hardly be classed as sportsmen, running into each other or falling on top of the ball when often even I can see there's space to progress forward and I know nowt about it. And as for the scrum - can there be a more pointless exercise in any sport.
I watched the Scotland game yesterday, a game a pundit described as "outstanding", and I dozed off a couple of times. Outstanding? Do me a favour, it was a huge steaming pile of nowt. No skill, no flair, no creativity. Just big blokes pushing each other around or rolling about on the floor.
Oh, and then there's the penalties given for technical things that only the ref out of 50,000 people can see. What's that about? How can that be a spectator sport? And if the coaches have to sit in TV rooms to see what's going on then I think I have a very valid point.
For me it's a completely shite game. And I have come to a conclusion about it. I think it's a game you have to play. Not watch it, play it.
Let the flaming begin.