to those who know me, the way i express my views between footy and rugby ...

watch this clip CAREFULLY ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxY7AsgOxBY

Rugby are for men with Real Balls of Steel ... Shame there are limited of them in the Deaf world ... to those who have deaf kiddies, or carrying kid(s) in the tum .. PLEASE WITH SUGAR AND CREAM on top let their first gift be a rugby ball than a football .. even a rugby shirt, take them out to rugby matches and keep them WELL AWAY from football ..

thank you for your attention ..

p.s. check this clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2_V3AsKzQI

if that happen to a footballer, they'd scream at the top of their voice for their mommy !!

even one veteran rugby player did say in the paper sometime last year .. think it was Brian Moore (not deaf bryan moore but brian 'the pitbull' moore, ex eng hooker) did say summat like that if a rugby player did as a footballer did on the pitch "fall on the ground from a feather weight touch by the opposition and wailed, his team would feel SHEEER HUMILIATED and ASHAMED .. they would give him a hard time and say "get up, yer embarrassing us" ...

hope this give u something to think about .. dump footy and turn ur head to rugby !!

forgive me for getting abit too carried away by the way !!

Spursgizmo,

That clips are biased... Come on, everyone knew that Italians takes dives and moan...

If you look at Liverpool players, they play hard and gets up... Crouch with his cut eye and broken nose, he gets up...

Gordon

Rob totally agree with you :thumbup: :thumbup:
The other plus about rugby is you can sit side by side with an opsition and they wont try and kick seven barrels out of you and will shake you hand after the game, even if their side loses, a true gentlemans sport :wink:

That is poor comparison - worst football vs great rugby...

The main reason why I stopped watching italian games coz they are bunch of actors!! Wasting so much football time on diving, moaning and whatever.

if you compare Germany vs Italy (2006) vs greatest rugby - it will be be tough to choose.

However I like rugby and football, but if i have to choose one of them then it would be football. :-)

One thing best about football, there is always a controversy (did the ball across the line?, was referee fair? etc) which get the whole world talking...

You would say that your Scottish :P :P :P

Mary Hare School has NEVER allowed the pupils to play Rugby on the grounds that whacking heads may cause further hearing damage ( or even blindness )

On my part ( wimp! ) I am glad we never played Rugger otherwise some big fat 14 year old would have taken great pleasure in grinding my knock-kneed 11 year old self into the pitch!

Personally I am not really interested in either Rugger or Footy but given a choice I would watch Rugger!

I used to play Rubgy when I was at Primary School.

I was hoping to carry on in Secondary and they don't provide it but football so ever since, I have turned to football!

I am still follower of Rubgy Union and League!

hmmm gordon but any rugby matches on any given day .. rugby still beats footy .. there's pretty much a big fat zero chance to spot any drama queens on the pitch ... ok about peter crouch but how often do u see a player like him and i mean it only happened once in how many weeks, months, or even years ?? ok peter crouch a kick in the face ooooh how bizarre .. but that's naffing compare to the super league final between leeds vs st helens (i think), this one player named jon wilkins or summat broke his nose early in 1st half and carried on playing with tape around his nose to stop blood from pouring out and went on to pick up man of the match award .. imagine wot's like having a seriously broken nose and still guarantee a numerous of knocks on the face through out the whole match, yes u'd think oooh nutter !! .. if it was a footballer, he'd be on a hospital bed and pamper by his own mommy ... even neil back, i remmy when i was watching england playing against south africa in year 2000 or 2001, at that time south africa were labelled as the most ruthless and dirtiest team .. anyway at one time i saw neil back fleeeeew backward after being rammed by a south african player, he went off for a blood bin then came back on .. next day in the paper there was a pict of neil back's face showing cut across the eye brow, man .. it was TRUELLY MASSIVE and DEEP .. still he played on with it ... would that ever happen in football ?!

well the clip, they were showing 2 most recents football world cup final and rugby world cup final ... not quite biased ...

yay drodz !! yes absolutely about being able to watch and enjoy a game of rugby sitting next to an away fans even in the mix and still have fun, no troubles etc .. thats the beauty of the game ... well hooligans means brain in their fist but ruggers fans brain are where they are should be (!)

beppo, the only reason rugby werent allowed in mary hare was coz we HAVE to wear hearing aids 24/7 .. cant play rugby with hearing aids on u knw (!!) .. i did ask about it and they said "well u can't play rugby with hearing aids on can you" ... naff to do with any knocked on the heads, see a perfect example of drama queen talk from a football fan .. heading the ball is just as bad as getting knocked on the head, so ur point is invalid !! ... from my experience, did i get knocked on the head REGULARLY as u make it sounds ?? nah pretty much lil .. and mind u my position was flanker (and prop in the minis when u could only use 3 players in a scrum) in the scrum so have a higher risk of getting knocked on the head and yet not got much of it ... once again u've made a truelly INVALID point !! but interesting u'd rather watch rugby !!

who do u support in rugby league and rugby union, matthew ?? u did told me once bt that was AAGES ago so bound to forget u knw ..

cum on people let rugby be your future not football !!

beppo, just spotted u mentioning getting knocked on the head can cause blindness .. hmm u get millions knocked on the head from boxing .. big fat heavy weight fights .. look at ali, lewis, tyson, etc .. are they blind ?? oops another invalid point dont u think (?!) sorry about the way i talk, i just dont do non-sense talks ...

the real question is why football is more popular than rugby?

Spursgizmo - That was the excuse MHGS gave you. I never knew rugby was actually banned ( rather than just not played ) when I was at MHGS, I only learnt about it after having left MHGS and I was told the reason I gave earlier - perhaps I was told wrong. Pity Mr Gwynn was not allowed to play rugby ( he came from Swansea ) otherwise he would not have been so frustrated!



Do I understand correctly that you play rugby?



Hang on! Did you know that Gordon Brown used to play rugby when he was at university? He was hit very hard on the head in a scrum and the retinas in both his eyes became detached and he needed surgery but lost the sight in one of his eyes so has a glass eye? As to boxing - as you will remember it was not done at MHGS either - still more worried about hearing aids than pupils eyesight or brains????

Having said that - I was not the one saying that rugby is too dangerous for deaf people - I know a few deaf people who played rugby after leaving MHGS, one having done so in the 6th form of a minor public school! I actually think MHGS was wrong to have banned rugby - I would like to think that I would have enjoyed playing it more than football even if it was dodging the fat 14 year old!

My Grandad was very much into football, he used to play for the old boys team of his old school before the war in a local league and was a class 1 ( or class A ) referee which entitled him to referee First Division league and FA cup matches after the war. But in the last few years, thanks to the pathetic drama queens like Beckham ( YUK! ) he went off football and watches rugby instead. So now you know why I am relatively more sympathetic to rugby than football.

Lets hope he gets another knock on the head before the next budget.

I played rugby in my primary schools and had no interest in football... when i arrive at Mary Hare i protested for rugby but it wasn't allowed. I asked Chris Gwynn the SPECIFIC reason for banning rugby...he said

" Cochlear implants. "

full stop.

That's rubbish! - it was banned at MHGS LONG before CIs were invented!

I think we have hit upon the reason why there are so few deaf rugby players, deaf schools have banned rugby unless anyone knows of one which had a rugby team?

Child's imaganation deaf Rugby team??

OLEEEEEEE was at twickenham watching outplaying the frenchies ... wow was on cloud 9 and still floating !!!!

Did Daddy pay again :wink:

Donny College had a deaf rugby team only started three years ago. Don't think they are much cop though. Who needs rugby to worry about deaf students getting hurt. From my experience all you need to do is give them a few pints and they will kick hell out of each other :yes: , so better to do it on the pitch :wink: