Isn't Rugby a wonderful game-your comments please!

[scrivy]

Has there been a poll on KB asking do you enjoy rugby, do you hate it etc??

I agree with Wolf - how would anyone know if no surveys have been done?

[SimJen]

wow...you really are full of it
i can take losing, i cant take idiots telling me to "get over it" - explain to me what the point of "get over it" is....what a pointless load of drivel, if thats your idea of constructive discourse then I'm sorry for you
AB's rubbing it in???? when did this happen? seriously, tell us all when it happened...I'd love to know...
why is it about time someone beat them?? what, because they win a lot? what sort of pointless reasoning is that? its pretty obvious you have a big case of underdog syndrome and just like attacking the tall poppy
so your main interest in rugby is what; jumping in the middle of a debate and giving those involved shit about the team they support when that team loses? man, you are saaaad
tri-boy is exactly right

Obviously you haven't been living in the same world the rest of us Kiwi's live in.
The AB's always lust after the big scores, which is the exact same reason why so many boof's go to the games against the small fries so you can watch them thrash them good and proper.
Some of these games are akin to the big kid smashin the little handicapped kid in school!
The media and public build them up to be something they're not! this has just been proven. Don't talk the talk if you can't back it up!
Yes I am saaaad but not as sad as some of you sad bastards that think the sun shines out of rugby's ass!
The rest of the world barely gives a shit about the sport! me included.
Watch/Play what you will but don't ignore the blatantly obvious facts as pointed out by so many others in this thread.
FFS womens soccer gets more viewers world wide!!!
And as you can't take idiots telling you to get over it.....GET OVER IT!
I will happily be an idiot motogp, f1, soccer, golf, tennis, cricket etc supporter, but at least im not an idiot rugby supporter!

[SimJen]

Heres a poll then http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=58480

[HTFU]

Noticed a few negative posts on rugby in here. Some of you guys really had bad experiences with rugby/sport as kids and thats a shame . This should not have happened at school and especially in a new age hippy holistic Physical Education programme. It is a shame that many schools in the past (and present) have the PE teachers fully involved in rugby and not a lot else and they then bring this to their PE classes.

I spent some time at Hamilton Boys High, a rugby stronghold and found rugby or similar games played during quite a few PE lessons. That is - a full contact sport with no safety gear ie mouth guards, pads on the posts, a referee, and the assumption all the kids were ready to play (you try putting you arm out to stop someone running at 20 km / hr instead of using a correct tackling technique). Two broken arms in 6 weeks and a raft of other injuries. What were they learning what were the educational outcomes for those students involved. SFA

I have a non contact games policy for all my classes. That is - you want to play rugby? Then there is a practice on Thursdays and a game on Saturday. This is usually followed up by me explaining to the excited rugby playing student (who is very eager to smash his fellow non rugby playing classmates) that a practical physical education lesson is not just playing a game or participating in sport.

Sport is just one aspect of a good PE programme over the course of a year. The piss poor school programme will be sport based and in my opinion fail to meet the needs of the majority of our students. I often use a modified game of non contact touch rugby/league as a way to meet the needs of the 'ego driven show off bash em up type' students. Promotes all the things I want my students to be exposed to such as running, spacial awareness, team work, team ethic, fitness, speed, agility and fun. If I have a mixed class I also like to sometimes put the girls all the same team and with a couple of boys help them to carve up the boys. Brings them down to earth which is good every once in a while.

Hopefully our own kids are not put through such one dimensional sport based PE programmes and the negatives they will always have in these programmes. So that in the future the KB threads of 2050 will have less "I hated my PE classes" posts . Except for WOLF's kids who will still be too sissy and little mummas boys still on mummas tit and reading books on sunny days

[Oldfulla]

la la la

[Wolf]

Hey, Rob.

My five-year-old has been making his way through teenage-sized adventure playgrounds and riding a pushbike without training wheels since he was 2 and riding a motorbike since he was 4. He's also demonstrating a healthy interest in firearms and swords. He's a fearless daredevil when it comes to extreme action so I'm picking rugby would be a bit tame for him.

Perhaps stunt work would be more his scene.

There's a difference between vilifying a bunch of cock-heads who think violence is the answer to everything and can't even abide by the rules of their chosen sport and "being a sissy".

[HTFU]

Got em yes.

There's a difference between vilifying a bunch of cock-heads who think violence is the answer to everything and can't even abide by the rules of their chosen sport and "being a sissy".

Not all - but yeah a heap for sure are cock-heads. After you have checked out Putaruru College shoot over to Oto on a Saturday night following a home rugby game. Just don't bring that adventurous 5 year old. Once the Mob meets up with the drunken ruggers its all on at the local.

He's also demonstrating a healthy interest in firearms and swords

Don't know if its healthy but so is mine.

Teacher and kids found I preferred to read rather than play rugby.

I was a white boy growing up in Otara and Glen Innes in the 80's and I also like reading quite a bit as a result saving grace was I could run like a Kenyan and was good at playing hide with no seek.

[Squiggles]

Rugby bores me shitless. Completely sick of nothing else being on TV. Would be very happy to see all ball sports banned and replaced by motor sport.

I hope the all blacks loose to France so it all ends.

you control the world cup too?!!!

*begs for mercy*

[peasea]

Getting back to the original question; not to me it aint; comment please? No more please!

[fredie]

what happened too the all so ran blacks

[bomma]

wow i cud swear this happened last world cup........a bit of deja vu aye

[idb]

wow i cud swear this happened last world cup........a bit of deja vu aye

Yep...deja vu all over again

[Tank]

wow - I wish that I didnt read this thread. I like rugby, and Im upset that the AB's (of which Im a huge fan) lost, but I'm over it.

But all the comments expressing joy about them losing are just plain sad - and I think it says more about the person posting than about their views on the sport.

Personally I have respect for any person who is at the top of the world in whatever there 'thing' is - and I dont knock them just because they lost. Thats just petty.

Do you people get the same enjoyment if Tiger Woods loses a major? Shit - golf has a lot of TV time and he earns a shit load more than the AB's combined.

and as for motorsports - I dont like Murphy, but I dont get any enjoyment when he spins out of a race - I appreciate him for the professional athlete that he is.


rant over (possibly)

[fredie]

we could have won the world cup

[Wolf]

Do you people get the same enjoyment if Tiger Woods loses a major? Shit - golf has a lot of TV time and he earns a shit load more than the AB's combined.

I don't take pleasure out of anyone's loss of a competition - Tiger Woods or the ABs - but the difference is, if any of our golfers (or Tiger Woods) loses a major tournament we don't get every paper and TV/radio station in the country autopsying it for three weeks afterwards.

and as for motorsports - I dont like Murphy, but I dont get any enjoyment when he spins out of a race - I appreciate him for the professional athlete that he is.

Since when were the ABs "professional" except in the sense of "getting paid shit=loads of money to play rugby? They might get the moola but they have no "professionalism" - as in fair play or obeying the rules - not so long as they continue to tackle above the waist, kick, gouge punch and go off side etc.

The ABs are a disgrace to this country and I feel offended that they are portrayed as heroes and act as de facto cultural ambassadors. They have all the integrity of Tonya Harding.