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Rugger controversy on 09:00 - Feb 28 by BrianMcCarthy
Meanwhile the Oirish rugby press in South Dublin have moved from Stage 1 to Stage 2. Stage 3 is being prepared.
Stage 1 - "We're going to win The Slam, roight" Stage 2 - "We're going to win The Championship, roight" Stage 3 - "Look Goys, can we at least stop England doing it"
No-one ever loses in Irish Rugby. Everyone always ends up A Legend.
Rugger controversy on 10:15 - Feb 28 by BrianMcCarthy
Not if we lose to Wales, surely?
If we lose to Wales and England beat Scotland then no one will be able to stop England was my point Brian - if it's not us stopping them winning the tournament, they'll have already won
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Rugger controversy on 10:38 - Feb 28 with 1263 views
Rugger controversy on 10:21 - Feb 28 by GloryHunter
Thanks for the explanations. But what exactly is offside in rugger? Does it mean that nobody can be in front of the ball?
As a rough rule it's the backfoot of the player where play is taking place - so behind a kicking player, behind the line of your front player in a ruck, the scrum half only being able to come to the back foot of the number 8 oppo in a scrum.
However, if there is no formal play then there's no offside. Same thing happens when kicks are dropped and go loose, a retreating player who was previously offside from being in front of the kicker is now onside and can play the ball. Ireland have also used the tactic of not engaging the maul from a line out and running around and tackling the ball carrier several times
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Rugger controversy on 10:41 - Feb 28 with 1254 views
If we lose to Wales and England beat Scotland then no one will be able to stop England was my point Brian - if it's not us stopping them winning the tournament, they'll have already won
Except if we lose to Wales and they lose to Scotland.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
As a rough rule it's the backfoot of the player where play is taking place - so behind a kicking player, behind the line of your front player in a ruck, the scrum half only being able to come to the back foot of the number 8 oppo in a scrum.
However, if there is no formal play then there's no offside. Same thing happens when kicks are dropped and go loose, a retreating player who was previously offside from being in front of the kicker is now onside and can play the ball. Ireland have also used the tactic of not engaging the maul from a line out and running around and tackling the ball carrier several times
And is it like football, that it's only a foul if the player who is offside receives the ball?
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Rugger controversy on 12:10 - Feb 28 with 1074 views
Unnecessarily and overly complicated game. Whenever I've watched a game with friends who go to the internationals, they are entirely unable to explain what is going on, why a penalty is awarded etc. I wonder how many of the crowd at the game had any idea what was going on with Italy's tactics until word filtered through via commentaries or people watching at home.
While people obviously have the right to watch whatever sport they like, I'm more than happy to stick to football.
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Rugger controversy on 13:11 - Feb 28 with 979 views
Out of curiosity I went to a couple of Wasps games when they played at LR. One was in the corporate boxes as it was a works 'do' and I simply ate all the food and drunk all the drink. Not a clue what was going on the other side of the smoked glass.
In a month I'm going to see Harlequins v Geordie Falcons as I now live close by and our child minder can't go (her family are ST'ers) so taking my little boy as one of his nursery mates and Dad is going. I reckon I'll spend most of the time in the kiddies play area and not having a clue what's going on outside.
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Rugger controversy on 11:37 - Mar 1 with 631 views
My main current irritation with the game itself is the ref being miked up. Why do we need to hear a running commentary on the various technicalities and subtle nuances and what players can do to keep the game flowing more smoothly. If they want to make a special DVD available to schools so they can learn all about how not to pull a scrum down that's fine, but I, the humble, drunk layman am not interested!
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Rugger controversy on 11:53 - Mar 1 with 603 views
Rugger controversy on 11:37 - Mar 1 by BklynRanger
My main current irritation with the game itself is the ref being miked up. Why do we need to hear a running commentary on the various technicalities and subtle nuances and what players can do to keep the game flowing more smoothly. If they want to make a special DVD available to schools so they can learn all about how not to pull a scrum down that's fine, but I, the humble, drunk layman am not interested!
i love the refs been miked up myself. We'll have to disagree on that one.
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Rugger controversy on 13:46 - Mar 1 with 544 views
Agree, you get much more clarity on ref's decision making
Imagine if it happened in football. They wouldn't be allowed to show any games until after the 9pm watershed unless the entire conversation was bleeped out.
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Rugger controversy on 20:07 - Mar 1 with 442 views
Unnecessarily and overly complicated game. Whenever I've watched a game with friends who go to the internationals, they are entirely unable to explain what is going on, why a penalty is awarded etc. I wonder how many of the crowd at the game had any idea what was going on with Italy's tactics until word filtered through via commentaries or people watching at home.
While people obviously have the right to watch whatever sport they like, I'm more than happy to stick to football.
Only had the pleasue(sic) of playing in one match of RU, was at a school where football ruled the roost, quite a few decent players in the school so was serious stuff, had a Welsh P.E. teacher join the staff and insisted we had to play the game of rugby, roped in school football team and a few lard arses who's idea of sport was how quick they could eat through the whole stock of chocolate bars in the school tuck shop in one session.
Had one 'training' session before the teacher thought it a good idea to throw us in at the deep end with a match against a private school of 'Ruperts' , those Italians had nothing on us, most of us spent the whole game trying to play as if a football match, just kicking the ball along the floor whenever it came even close, can't remember one of us even attempting to actually picking the ball up and running with it, seemed like a 'foul' (handball) in our football soaked brains.
Besides no way was I getting in the way of some 12 stone acne ridden 'toff' running at me at full steam cos he wanted to plant the ball over the 'goal' line, doubt I was more than 6 stone wringing wet.
Lost to an astronimical score 90 odd point to nil, came off as clean as I went on beside a few clods of mud stuck in me studs, must admit to the greatest pleasure was seeing our 'Taff' school teacher in an absolute bemused heap at the embarrasment we had caused him.
Some strange reason never did get a call up to train with England Youth RU squad, cant think why, had sleepless nights thinking about it ever since