OT: Rugby

[sirchet]

The Cardinals?...hmmn...good idea! We might stand a chance against a baseball team...if they don't show up.

Oh well, some day we will be back in the winning circle, just have to be patient.

[Estelindis]

Well, well...  Another year, another failure by Ireland to win the Six Nations rugby contest.     We did pretty well last year, so we thought we had a chance this year, but the truth is that we weren't up to scratch, and those who won deserved to win. 

I do enjoy rugby, but I have to say that my personal sport of choice to watch would be hurling.  It is the best game in the world.  So fast, so skillful...  Better than Quidditch, even if Quidditch really did exist!  The ability to balance the small sliotar on the tip of the hurley while running at full speed up the pitch, then sliding it swiftly into the air and shooting it up to another player at speeds of up to 150 km/h...  Those men (and the women who play the female version, camogie) are heroes to me. 

[BenWH]

Oh, it's a sport then. It always looked like some kind of battle...

[Estelindis]

Oh, it's a sport then. It always looked like some kind of battle...

In a sense, it is!     A mighty battle between sporting titans!    Actually, I often wonder if it didn't have martial origins....   

[BenWH]

I'm thinking of deleting this thread after England's dreadful showing in New Zealand at the weekend. England's U20 side also lost to NZ in the World Cup final, but at least the Saxons won the Churchill cup.