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"is rugby a more civilised game than football?"

i was watching a rugby match today leicester tigers vs llanelli it was the first rugby match i have sat down and watched all the way through.I was quite suprised as i quite enjoyed watching the match.The one thing i was so suprised about was how friendly both fans sides were this is something you would never get at a football match.so now im going to watch rugby.Has anyone got any comments they would like to make on this?

i was watching a rugby match today leicester tigers vs llanelli it was the first rugby match i have sat down and watched all the way through.I was quite suprised as i quite enjoyed watching the match.The one thing i was so suprised about was how friendly both fans sides were this is something you would never get at a football match.so now im going to watch rugby.Has anyone got any comments they would like to make on this?

Good post but i havent reall noticed it :)

Do you like it then?

i havent really noticed :D

The fans in Rugby are much better than in football but fans in football have much more desire about the game.

The reaper, you obviously haven't read in the papers when those guys stamp on each others heads, bite ears off, noses off, you name it, they've bitten it. Worsed thing is, this does actually happen.

Rugby is not as civilised as Football because do English football players start a punch up in the middle of a game. I don't think so.

But what do we see in Rugby, Martin Johnsen puches the opponent square in the face and only gets a couple of matches ban and a 'heavy' fine.

If Roy Keane did that in the match he would be banned for life from European Football. But that doesn't happen in Rugby, oh no.

Rugby = Civilised i don't think so.

No doubt someone will post about the fans now. How footie fans are more violent than Rugby, but if Rugby was as popular as Football it would have crowd trouble too!

James Pond wrote:
> Rugby is not as civilised as Football because do English football
> players start a punch up in the middle of a game. I don't think so.
>
> But what do we see in Rugby, Martin Johnsen puches the opponent square
> in the face and only gets a couple of matches ban and a 'heavy'
> fine.
>
> If Roy Keane did that in the match he would be banned for life from
> European Football. But that doesn't happen in Rugby, oh no.
>
> Rugby = Civilised i don't think so.
>
> No doubt someone will post about the fans now. How footie fans are
> more violent than Rugby, but if Rugby was as popular as Football it
> would have crowd trouble too!

well said mate :D

Reynolds you are skating on very thin ice. If you keep quoting other people's long posts and saying a few words, you will be kicked off the system. And all your hard work will go down the big drain of Words, which is the banned list.

If you only remember two words from this post, let it be this:

STOP IT.

I've seen you around: I find you very annoying