WelcomeToOblivion said:
furie said:
WelcomeToOblivion said:
rugby
union
Such a girls game
compared to league? hahaha puhhhhlease
And you play..? I rest my case
The thing is, while a bad game of league flows badly, a good game works much better.
With Union, it's kind of "OMG, an opponent almost touched my shirt, I need to drop and roll off the ball".
Then you maul, which is essentially a mix of "pile on" and human Jenga, which invariably results in a scrum.
So you stop and set up the scrum. The fly half gets the ball and invariably gets within a breath of an opponent and drops, rolls and we start with the pub games again...
Unless... Now, this is genius...
He kicks the ball into touch. Now, I can imagine the thought process that went into developing the rules for Rugby Union.
"Okay, we've got our pub game, only with people. We've got 'pile on' which is an old dorm favourite, Squishy Saint-John was especially good at it if I recall. We've got the part where we all get a chance to cuddle and feel each others genitals (another old dorm favourite). We've got the kicking thing for those Soccer oiks... We need something else that is fantastically British, something that helps sum us up as a race for the world to recognise this as a English sport..."
"We could queue up?"
"What? How can we take the British art of standing in a line part of an exciting game?"
"I dunno, but we could incorporate it somehow..."
"Okay then, Russell-Brown-Smythe suggests that on top of pile-on, Jenga, cuddly gropes and uncouth kicking we should also have a bit where we stand politely in line - do we need to mumble and moan about the weather as part of this? Optional? Okay - all in favour..."
Stop-start, stop-start, queue up, stop-start, stop-start...
League is just a huge game of British Bulldog with a ball and pretence to be a sport. The conversation for developing the rules for League was much simpler:
"I want to run into people to see if I can hurt them"
"Ug!"