2011 Rugby World Cup!

[CDNSushi]

It BEGINS!!!

If you can't feel it yet, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D20Ksgpsbw

GO Canada!!!

[Jock Scot]

Oh Crumbs, has it?

[Arlen]

Oh Crumbs, has it?

Are you not a Rugby man, Jock?
I grew up just up the road from Hutchesons Auldhouse and never wanted to get into the sectarian football nonsense (My dad had always supported Third Lanark but when they closed he went on to Rangers) so I got dead into Rugby growing up. I was even invited to play with a local team next year if I can get into shape and make them proud, so to speak.


I'm eagerly looking forward to game results for the world cup and also watching the local rugby teams playing now that I've found some.

[English Bloke]

Ahhh Rugby Union, what a game! Hung my boots up in 2000 after nearly 30 years of playing. I miss it still.

[Jock Scot]

Are you not a Rugby man, Jock?

Sadly Rugby Union changed for the worse when it ceased being an amateur game and now I have no interest in it whatsoever.

[CDNSushi]

Well, I can't vouch for their playing skills, but I've read that the Scottish team sing very well...

http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/ne...+scotland+sing

[Arlen]

Sadly Rugby Union changed for the worse when it ceased being an amateur game and now I have no interest in it whatsoever.

I definitely prefer smaller local team play and playing rather than watching, but I do love love the national games, too. Not quite such a fan of the... professional games.

[Arlen]

Well, I can't vouch for their playing skills, but I've read that the Scottish team sing very well...

http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/ne...+scotland+sing

They're not bad, but not nearly so good as the Welsh lads!

[macwilkin]

Are you not a Rugby man, Jock?
I grew up just up the road from Hutchesons Auldhouse and never wanted to get into the sectarian football nonsense (My dad had always supported Third Lanark but when they closed he went on to Rangers) so I got dead into Rugby growing up. I was even invited to play with a local team next year if I can get into shape and make them proud, so to speak.


I'm eagerly looking forward to game results for the world cup and also watching the local rugby teams playing now that I've found some.

There's a great line in Invictus where one of Mandela's bodyguards says "Football is a gentleman's game played by hooligans, while rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen."

GO BOKKE! GO BOKKE!

T.

[Jock Scot]

There's a great line in Invictus where one of Mandela's bodyguards says "Football is a gentleman's game played by hooligans, while rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen."

GO BOKKE! GO BOKKE!

T.

I don't doubt for a second that Mandela's fellow said those words, but they have been around for a lot longer than that. To my certain knowledge some 70 years anyway and I cannot quite recall who it was that is reputed to have said it. Sounds a bit Churchillian?