Rugby Fans

[Pete999]

Yes a good result for England, it was only just so lets not get carried away,

 

[Badged01]

Exactly, the wheels on that chariot keep falling off with regular monotony ......... and Italy always have a win each year!

 

[Pete999]

Yes mate the Italians played well and lets be honest they were a match for the sweaties in every department and only just lost

 

[Badged01]

Of course once we get the new border installed the Scots will have a larger pool of players to choose from so their rugby and football teams should improve considerably :smile5: Could they get any worst??

 

[MDJ]

Lets not get too carried away now, we last heard England were the "Daddies" after they beat NZ and we all know what happened thereafter. One sunny day doesn't make a summer ......

We are building for the world cup next year, I bet out of all the home nations we will go farther than the rest in that comp, our team is still very young, a few players under 20, the Jocks are finished, They look like my local pub sides seconds when they play, appalling side with a serious lack of talent unlike the Irish and Welsh who are very good teams, scotland for the wooden spoon.

 

[Badged01]

We are building for the world cup next year, I bet out of all the home nations we will go farther than the rest in that comp.

On paper they should as they have the greater pool to pick from. Think I read there are something like 100,000 adults involved in union in England compared to circa 23,000 in Wales and 25,000 in Ireland??. Just have to hope they dont get carried away with their own hype .......

 

[MDJ]

On paper they should as they have the greater pool to pick from. Think I read there are something like 100,000 adults involved in union in England compared to circa 23,000 in Wales and 25,000 in Ireland??. Just have to hope they dont get carried away with their own hype .......

I don't think we do to be fair Badge, I think the Scots think we do, My aunty June was in scotland on holiday once and said she would never go there again, heres why. She was out on a visit to a Scottish monument about one of your old kings, not sure which one, anyhow there was a teacher from a local Primary school there with a group of about 30 under 7 or 8 year old kids and this teacher was absolutely slagging off the English over a battle which happened cerntury's ago, it was so racial my auntie actually had to butt in and give the teacher a telling off, the teacher apologised and then told the class she didn't mean the English of today but the English 500 years ago, If your prImary school teachers are still teaching you lot about hatred towards us it is no wonder you always think the worse of us. Senario 2, she went into a pub with her husband, bearing in mind she is 75 years old, she was with a holiday coach holiday company showing us english the beauty of Scotland as tourists. In the back ground England were on the TV playing rugby, not sure who it was against at that time, the foul language coming from women in that bar appalled my aunty and so she decided she wanted to leave the pub. When she got up to walk out the landlord said goodbye to her and when she smiled back and said yes goodbye he then realised she was english, he then said to her I hope england lose today you are rubbish, she said how many world cups have you won? he was startled and she said we have won the Rugby, Football and Cricket world cups but I didn't have to mention it did I, he then said Fluck off get out of my pub. So imagine this then, a 75 year old gramdmother visiting your country, twice she experienced racism and foul and abusive language. I promise you this, if you came to glos, I would shake your hand, put you up on my sofa, take you to the rugby and show you all the sights and probably even refuse anything back in return, your accent wouldn't bother me nor your birth place. I think this crap between scotland and england is all in you Jocks head not ours. So regarding the Hype bit, We are just people in a normal country trying to compete and do our best, perhaps the hype bit is in your heads not ours, rant over, your still my M8 :heart:

 

[jeremy]

my throat hurts, but what a game!

 

[Badged01]

I think this crap between scotland and england is all in you Jocks head .............. your still my M8 :heart:

Not if you think Im Scottish we wont be!!! Im Welsh and we love the English

 

[MDJ]

HAHA, sorry, regarding Wales, I go there a hell of a lot as I am on the border really and I have a lot of banter with them but have never experienced hatred ever, that said the rugger is a tense game when we meet.

 

[Nolnoc]

Agree with mdj about England building fot the world cup. But also the arrogance is gone out of english rugby under Lancaster which can only improve them. Bear in mind England's try yesterday was off the training ground in harlequins who are coached by irishman conor o shea. Us Irish are everywhere lol. ....

As for someones potato farmers response. Its comments like that tgat make peoole dislike the english. Thought we'd moved on from that. Leave that to the soccer games. Rugby was always about respect. Every team that comes to Dublin gets it.

 

[Badged01]

.... regarding Wales ..... have never experienced hatred ever ......

Thats because you're only going to the "posh" places, you've obviously not been to the right areas of Wales, try up the valleys!

That said I went to my cousins wedding in outback North Wales country many moons ago and he dropped me at his local pub whilst he went to park the car. Not speaking Welsh (plus having an English accent) I attempted to order drinks from the barmaid in the Queens language but she only spoke back to me in Welsh, gesticulating she didnt understand what I wanted -- 2 pints of best Welsh bitter! As soon as my cousin came in, told her I was his Welsh cousin from the southern badlands she miraculously cheered up, spoke the queens English and served me! Just goes to show even the Welsh dont like each other ......

p.s. Ive no problems with the English, Scottish or Irish .... I just like to engage in lively banter with them!

 

[MDJ]

I would just point at the pump and say give me 2 flucking pints of that bitch, I would be able to tell from her from of disgust whether she understood or not, and I have worked in wrexham on a job for a couple of months and never had any issues there TBH.

 

[ian.settle1]

Thats because you're only going to the "posh" places, you've obviously not been to the right areas of Wales, try up the valleys!

That said I went to my cousins wedding in outback North Wales country many moons ago and he dropped me at his local pub whilst he went to park the car. Not speaking Welsh (plus having an English accent) I attempted to order drinks from the barmaid in the Queens language but she only spoke back to me in Welsh, gesticulating she didnt understand what I wanted -- 2 pints of best Welsh bitter! As soon as my cousin came in, told her I was his Welsh cousin from the southern badlands she miraculously cheered up, spoke the queens English and served me! Just goes to show even the Welsh dont like each other ......

p.s. Ive no problems with the English, Scottish or Irish .... I just like to engage in lively banter with them!

Did a course in North Wales, the guy giving it was from South Wales said that if the was a table for liking people then the English where above Southern Welsh as the Northern Welsh hated them even more than the English.

 

[Badged01]

I would just point at the pump and say give me 2 flucking pints of that bitch....

Clearly the difference between us, Im a gentleman with respect for the fairer sex ..... :teeth_smile: