Rugby!!!!!! Its the best sport ever!!!!!!

I think that Rugby is the funnest sport to play . The thrill one gets out of being on a team and working with it like that is just great. All the knocking about you recieve makes it all the funner.

This is for all those American people out there:

American Football is wannabe Rugby for the weak hearted. I'm sorry if anyone is a fan of it but just look at how much padding and protection they wear! In Rugby you wear colthes and that is all.

One thing Rugby teaches you is that you have nothing to fear from pain. Playing Rugby makes you hard stuff. I have often left the field with black eyes, bleeding cuts, and if you are in a bad fall maybe a sprained or broken limb.

If people want to know the rules etc (I have had one request from someone in this forum) then I would like to say that they are more complicated than just take the ball and run. It is a very complex game, yet oh so fun.

In short the idea is to score as many tries (try=5 points) as possible, and to prevent the oppostition (or as I refer to them while on the field: the enemy) from doing the same. A conversion is 2 points as opposed to the 1 point in AF. Note that unlike AF one must ground the ball with downwards pressure to score a try.

The positions are divided into two catagories, forwards (the position of choice) which requires strength, height and bulk, and the backs, for which you need speed. The forwards are divided into the following: (in order of all-round skill) Number 8 (the person chosen for this is usually the best forard) 2x flankers (these guys are the second most preferable jobs, together with the number 8 they form what is called the "loose forwards" ie people who are not bound with another player in the scrum-see below for more on the scrum), the hooker, who is the person which the scrum revolves around, the 2nd rows, who are usually the tallest guys on the team, and the two props, who support the hooker on either side of him, taking the full blow of the scrum.

The forwards do all the fun and dirty work, the backs job can get repetetive (ie take the ball, sprint, pass, get nailed). The forwards are the ones who do the scrum (this is very important).

The scrum occoures when someone does something they shouldn't have, which will inevitably happen, such as pass forward (another difference from AF-believe me it makes the game a lot funner) or knock-on which is when a player tries to catch a pass but drops it forward. Essentially the team who was not not the wrong get to push the ball underneath the pack of forwards who are in a set formation, who have to push the other teams formation of forwards away from the ball, at the same time the hookers of both teams will be trying to kick the ball backward.

It is quite complex and the only way you can fully understand it is if you are shown it because I havent quite explained it very well.

Any further queries about the wonderful game of rugby then do not hesitate to ask

Shouldn't this go in sports. Anyway I really like watching rugby, but I find playing it although fun, really frustrating my main problem with playing it is line outs it really slows the game down and breaks it up, I also can find its very error driven nature frustrating. On the rare occasion that I do play I useually play full back. (No 15).

I'd rather watch rugby than american football...
Plus, I have been in Rugby once. It is a nice little town.

EDIT: There is somethigh called rubgy-five or something like that, which is played with five people in each team. That is more intensive and funnier to play, I was told, but I have never played.

I think this thread is OK to be in here, but I am affraid It will be changed to sports.

BTW. What does your sig suppose to mean? I am affraid it is bad spanish.

Rugby!!!!! Speak for yourself!!!!!!

I also think this should go into the Sports Forum.

Multiple exclamation marks is a sure sign you've packed into one too many scrums!!!!!!!!!

But yeah, it is a fun game to play & watch. Rugby league is neither.

And since everyone else said it, I will too. Wrong forum.

Okay, we get it everybody, wrong forum. We'll just wait until a mod moves it.

Rugby is fun to watch, though I haven't seen enough of it to understand it. Perhaps I should have gotten that rugby PS2 game and broaden my horizons some.

American football is directly descended from Rugby, however different they may appear now. Most of the changes were due to the fact that there was a high fatality rate in games between American universities (which is where it was most popular).

The Yankee said:

Okay, we get it everybody, wrong forum. We'll just wait until a mod moves it.

Rugby is fun to watch, though I haven't seen enough of it to understand it. Perhaps I should have gotten that rugby PS2 game and broaden my horizons some.

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Nah, watch more of the super 12, now super 14. There is yet to be a decent rugby game, or a decent Aussie rules game. Partly due to smaller markets for them, partly due to more players on the field, partly due to being less stop-start. Gridiron, Basketball, Ice Hockey, Soccer have all been done reasonably well as videogames.

sanabas said:

Nah, watch more of the super 12, now super 14. There is yet to be a decent rugby game, or a decent Aussie rules game. Partly due to smaller markets for them, partly due to more players on the field, partly due to being less stop-start. Gridiron, Basketball, Ice Hockey, Soccer have all been done reasonably well as videogames.

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Yeah the PS2 game was pretty cr@p and really confusing. Stick to watching the real thing.
Though I must say that I did just buy Madden '05 for PS2, games like that are good on that format because of the set piece, stop/start nature of the game. Whereas rugby is much more free flowing.

Urederra said:

I'd rather watch rugby than american football...
Plus, I have been in Rugby once. It is a nice little town.

EDIT: There is somethigh called rubgy-five or something like that, which is played with five people in each team. That is more intensive and funnier to play, I was told, but I have never played.

I think this thread is OK to be in here, but I am affraid It will be changed to sports.

BTW. What does your sig suppose to mean? I am affraid it is bad spanish.

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Yeah ok I didn't realise there was a sports section (there are too many sub-forums on this site)

And what about my signature ???????????????????????????? Bad spanish???????? I used to live in spain and I speak it VERY fluently, so what do you make of it, I am interested. It is not supposed to make sense! (in case you were wondering)

btw what positions does everybody play?

I am 2nd row/flanker. I love those 2 positions. I also had to do a bit of prop but im not heavy nor short enough to really be effective.

diablodelmar said:

btw what positions does everybody play?

I am 2nd row/flanker. I love those 2 positions. I also had to do a bit of prop but im not heavy nor short enough to really be effective.

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I am ~190cm, ~130kg. (6'3", 288ish), so prop all the way.

slip79 said:

Yeah the PS2 game was pretty cr@p and really confusing. Stick to watching the real thing.
Though I must say that I did just buy Madden '05 for PS2, games like that are good on that format because of the set piece, stop/start nature of the game. Whereas rugby is much more free flowing.

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Yeah. Madden series is very good. I wish there was a rugby or AFL game even 80% as good.

I played Rugby while at school and Hockey. I'm 1.97m and about 120kg

I love Rugby Though some people who i played against were real asses, i'm not sure of the english word, but i was playing 2nd row i believe.

Never really liked Basketball, even though everyone was asking me to play in their team due to my size. But the game itself never appealed me. I was also playing Hockey and oddly enough for my size i was goal keeper (goalie) and loved it.