Rugby Union

[strapping young lad]

anyone here like this and been following the world cup?

or is this forum full of americans/canadians who dont give a hoot about it! :)

[Shortay]

I live in the UK but I really don't like rugby... it's football all the way for me :) Or "soccer" as the Americans call it :-|

[wychwood_drinker]

I live in the UK but I really don't like rugby... it's football all the way for me :) Or "soccer" as the Americans call it :-|

its football, and the Americans are wrong.


i don't follow rugby, but its nice theirs a sport that we don't get caned in.

[RMA]

If you can....DO
If you can't...TEACH
If you can't teach...teach PE
If you can't teadch PE...teach rugby.

A game invented by a man who couldn't play football for people who can't play football!

[wychwood_drinker]

A game invented by a man who couldn't play football for people who can't play football!

???

their both descended from the same game. they split into rugby and football over disagreement over weather or not you should be allowed to hold the ball.

[RMA]

No...believe a Rugby (the place) schoolboy, William Webb Ellis, invented it because no one was passing to him because he was an absolute yard dog. He picked it up and ran with it...and history was made. Hence the William Webb Ellis trophy

[wychwood_drinker]

No...believe a Rugby (the place) schoolboy, William Webb Ellis, invented it because no one was passing to him because he was an absolute yard dog. He picked it up and ran with it...and history was made. Hence the William Webb Ellis trophy


its an urban legend.

wiki on rugby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rugby_union#The_schism_between_the_Foot ball_Association_and_Rugby_Football)

[RMA]

The ever reliable wiki...:p

Personally, in fact hinted at in the wiki article, is that the Rugby authorities didn't like the true roots of the game as being created by a poor footballer and formed, nay INVENTED, a fictional account of it's creation in an effort to keep the beautiful game down. 'Old Rugbeian Society' indeed...just another example of 'the man' trying to keep people down!

If it's not true then why name the most important trophy in the 'sport' the Webb Ellis Trophy? Honouring a fictional event? ;)

Apocryphal or not...rugby is a sport for those who can't play football.

:cool:

[wychwood_drinker]

If it's not true then why name the most important trophy in the 'sport' the Webb Ellis Trophy? Honouring a fictional event? ;)

because people never let facts get in the way of a good story.

[timp29]

I love my rugby. Just thought I'd keep the dream/thread alive!