Apathy towards the egg.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: Apathy towards the egg.

I played rugby for about 8 years and if im honest it was the best game in the world to play but i prefer to watch football. I missed the city while playing but always made sure i was there if our game was called off. Still watch the Wales games though but city comes first.

Number 8 or second row?

[Dorcus]

Re: Apathy towards the egg.

Aberavon, Abertillery, Bridgend, Cardiff, Ebbw Vale, Llanelly, London Welsh, Neath, Newport, Pontypridd, Pontypool, Swansea all fed the Welsh team in the 70's and had decent crowds.

It also killed the opportunity and ambition for less traditional clubs to reach the top. It was great to see the likes of Caerphilly, Treorchy and Dunvant in the Premier.

[light up the darkness]

Re: Apathy towards the egg.

Aberavon, Abertillery, Bridgend, Cardiff, Ebbw Vale, Llanelly, London Welsh, Neath, Newport, Pontypridd, Pontypool, Swansea all fed the Welsh team in the 70's and had decent crowds.

The Barbarians Easter tour included Penarth on Good Friday

[Don Corleone]

Re: Apathy towards the egg.

I played rugby for about 8 years and if im honest it was the best game in the world to play but i prefer to watch football. I missed the city while playing but always made sure i was there if our game was called off. Still watch the Wales games though but city comes first.

Me too, used to really enjoy playing rugby in the mid late 70s but always preferred watching football. Our school rugby team would play 38 games a season and the school football team about 5 games a season!

[Dave Blue]

Re: Apathy towards the egg.

All us catholic’s were brainwashed into rugby and I suppose during the 70’s, we enjoyed the success of the team.

But now it’s just 15 fat fellas against 15 fatter fellas

Done my head in a couple of years ago, when at a scrum, the scrum half put the ball in at 45%, I said penalty, but I was told that it’s legal now to not put it in straight !!!!!!
What’s the point of the scrum then ?????

All comprehensive schools were like that. That’s why I dislike the game. If they didn’t have a scrum they’d have to call it rugby league.

[Former Labour leader]

Re: Apathy towards the egg.

I was in the same boat in Ponty Grammsr, rugby, feck all football. Hated rugger ever since.
Seems to be continuing the same way down West, where I now live. Grandson's junior school all rugger. Told him to refuse to play the stupid game.

[Des Parrot]

Re: Apathy towards the egg.

Carrying on from the theme above, I didn’t play competitive football until after I left school. The school was entwined with the local rugby clubs, so there was zero opportunity. I watched & supported City from the age of 9, so the effective ban on football, made me resent rugby.

The situation in my extended family is very gender divided. The lads are all football oriented, the girls rugby.

[Citizen's Nephew]

Re: Apathy towards the egg.

Aberavon, Abertillery, Bridgend, Cardiff, Ebbw Vale, Llanelly, London Welsh, Neath, Newport, Pontypridd, Pontypool, Swansea all fed the Welsh team in the 70's and had decent crowds.

Crosskeys. South Glamorgan Institute. Newbridge. Plus Cardiff RFC would have Bath and other top English clubs home and away. Wasps. Harlequins.

[JamesWales]

Re: Apathy towards the egg.

Domestic rugby is a bit of a joke. What should have happened is a total merger of the English and Welsh leagues 25 years ago, with the best rising to the top. The lack of promotion and relegation makes the league a real struggle. That said, I do enjoy watching Cardiff Rugby, but mainly cos it's a special ground and nice to stand with mates and watch it

I love international rugby. No fan of the WRU though. It's been an absolutely fantastic six nations and when rugby is good it is a very entertaining game in my opinion

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: Apathy towards the egg.

Domestic rugby is a bit of a joke. What should have happened is a total merger of the English and Welsh leagues 25 years ago, with the best rising to the top. The lack of promotion and relegation makes the league a real struggle. That said, I do enjoy watching Cardiff Rugby, but mainly cos it's a special ground and nice to stand with mates and watch it

I love international rugby. No fan of the WRU though. It's been an absolutely fantastic six nations and when rugby is good it is a very entertaining game in my opinion

Cardiff Rugby seems very white middle class

Solicitors, Accountants , Dentists , Medics

[splott parker]

Re: Apathy towards the egg.

Carrying on from the theme above, I didn’t play competitive football until after I left school. The school was entwined with the local rugby clubs, so there was zero opportunity. I watched & supported City from the age of 9, so the effective ban on football, made me resent rugby.

The situation in my extended family is very gender divided. The lads are all football oriented, the girls rugby.

Wales international games have become a ‘girls event’. The photos you see the day after games seem dominated by women in various pseudo Welsh themed regalia gurning at the camera. Strange how the supporting of those international days have turned out, I won’t say how supporting rugby as a sport has turned out because barring Wales games I doubt they realise that there are club fixtures throughout the season. It’s become a 5 or 6 times a year women’s piss up.

[Kind of Blue]

Re: Apathy towards the egg.

I only caught the tail end of the “amateur” era but the older I get it’s the club game I wish still existed in its previous form. Of course it’s still there, I enjoyed a cold afternoon out watching Pontypool v Newport over Xmas with a few thousand others at Pontypool Park.

At the top level, played in the right spirit, it still can have its moments. The France/NZ game at the WC recently for example.

But something about professionalism has changed the game, arguably not for the better. Sheer physicality, focus on defence, bit of a quagmire on rules to compensate, serious health concerns for players safety, etc.