Today I’ve been out to watch my first love in life, namely Fylde Rugby Club.
Today we were playing Macclesfield RFC at home where the number 14 for Macclesfield was non other than the Eddie Stobart (Jnr)…yes…the one from the TV programme. Now I know Stobarts get some real bad press on here but, credit where credit’s due, this lad can really play rugby and can run faster than Mark Dixon drives.
He even scored a try!..little bleeder
Anyway, just wanted to say, if you’re looking in Eddie, well played mate it was a good game, even though we won in the end.
It’s a pity life can’t learn from rugby…knock hell out of each other for a bit then shake hands and have a beer together afterwards…like real men
So is he a full time pro then? I don’t know I dont really watch rugby, it’s for public school boys and “sportsman” that arnt technically gifted enough to play a proper sport like football.
Got to be honest i havn’t watched much rugby since wigan ruled the world but i would say they are far better sportsman than poncy footballers , if they so much as break a finger nail they have a week off and go abroad for surgery . rugby players on the other hand look like they’ve been in a world class pub brawl and carry on as normal … eyes hanging out and allsorts of bother . not my sport though …
i was never a rugby fan untill my 10 yr old son started to play and have to say rugby is a far superior sport they need to be fitter stronger and not scarred to get stuck in and graft but the best thing about rugby is the respect that is shown on and off the pitch
Football players spend the whole match pretending to be seriously injured.
Rugby players spend the whole match pretending not to be injured.
Proper sportsmen and women.
FarnboroughBoy11:
So is he a full time pro then? I don’t know I dont really watch rugby, it’s for public school boys and “sportsman” that arnt technically gifted enough to play a proper sport like football.
+1 with you there
Rugby has never interested me, i have watched it on tv many times to just try and give it a chance but i just cant get into it. I remember we was forced to play it at school. If I remember rightly it was 6 weeks of Rugby then 6 weeks of Football. The first week of football couldn’t come any sooner, Rugby I found was so boring. Stop start stop start stop start i just couldn’t get into it.
Now Football I lived for it and played it in PE at school on lunch breaks and even played for a few teams after school (was quite a good player I was told a few times:lol:)
Football has a lot more skill involved you just can’t argue with that I mean just look at the greats George Best, Pele, and the greats of today Messi, and Ronaldo. The tricks and skill of these players is unreal, go out in your back garden and try and control a ball like these people can and did.
I remember also as a kid watching Ryan Giggs soccer Skills on channel 4, I would record it every week. Then I would go out into the garden and try some if the tricks with cones laid out. Some of the things these players can do is pure skill the talent the control is unreal
Football also brings lads together it brings the world together, look at the World Cup ? Look at the Euros ?
bowser:
Got to be honest i havn’t watched much rugby since wigan ruled the world but i would say they are far better sportsman than poncy footballers , if they so much as break a finger nail they have a week off and go abroad for surgery . rugby players on the other hand look like they’ve been in a world class pub brawl and carry on as normal … eyes hanging out and allsorts of bother . not my sport though …
They may be on the pitch but when that ref blows his whistle do you ever see one argue or drop kick a crowd or head but anyone? May not be to everyone’s taste but they do a good job they play well with respect for a fraction of the wage there’s hardly any match fixing diving or general Tom foolery you have to admit there is a lot more discipline and respect involved
LOL!!! No way do you have to be more fit for rugby than football, it’s just short bursts then stop for a minute while they organise a cuddle, they also only play 80 mins because the fat posh boys can’t run. Footballers are finely tuned athletes, rugby players are not.
Answer me this, if I am wrong why don’t they have rugby as an Olympic sport?
And there are more injuries in football than rugby that reflect this, e.g if something fails on a finely tuned race car it’s out the race but if something fails on a beat up road car you could probably still run it = football & rugby.
Football is for ■■■■■■■ and rugby is for men? That’s funny, ain’t there a bender that plays for England?
I agree on discipline but that’s what happens when you don’t come from money and have it thrust upon you, rugby players are just public school boys that have a silver spoon their mouth.
Having played Rugby for the past 40 years (and i’m still playing) i agree with most of the comments above, although Footballers are a load of over paid tarts!!!
Rugby is the only game you can have a real good scrap on the field but dont let the Ref see as they are getting a bit tetchy about this sort of thing now …anyway there is more than one way to skin a cat…
FarnboroughBoy11:
So is he a full time pro then? I don’t know I dont really watch rugby, it’s for public school boys and “sportsman” that arnt technically gifted enough to play a proper sport like football.
These guys are playing in the National One league which is just a couple of steps from being professional. They do get paid so they’re classed as semi-pro, even though some of them work in rugby full time as school community ambassadors, coaches etc. We had Jason Robinson playing for us a couple of seasons ago and you could certainly tell the difference in class and technical ability, so I take my hat off to the fellas playing at international level, it’s a tough way to earn a living and is more technical and skilful than some people may realise.
The most famous person at our club is Bill Beaumont, the ex England captain and when he’s not fulfilling his roles as chairman of the IRB or president of the Six Nations he can be found on the sidelines every game and he always stops and says hello and has a little chat, unlike some of the footballers I’ve come across. As someone has already said, these guys are true gentlemen.
bowser:
Got to be honest i havn’t watched much rugby since wigan ruled the world but i would say they are far better sportsman than poncy footballers , if they so much as break a finger nail they have a week off and go abroad for surgery . rugby players on the other hand look like they’ve been in a world class pub brawl and carry on as normal … eyes hanging out and allsorts of bother . not my sport though …
They have colour tellies now mate…
Im showing my age now
Even though it pains me to say it ( im from bolton ) they did rule the world …
Im showing my age now