I don't come from a rugby background but this thread is ridiculous.
Rugby has a lot of self-righteous ********s who love to put down football, but so does the GAA. I've met a lot of them. They **** me off royally.
However, it is a good game to watch. While the Irish rugby team finds a way of ****ing up at every world cup, they have world class players. Our club sides are very professional. They offer hope to the football clubs that with good management, we can bring through great talent. The academies of Shamrock Rovers and Bohs give me great hope for the future that we can do the same in football rather than hoping the brilliant talent can come through at a club like Liverpool or City every ten or fifteen years.
The Irish soccer team has churned out mostly abysmal performances over the last ten years. Not so much results in that period, but we have been horrible to watch. The irish football team is the biggest show in town and hopefully in a few years time when Troy is firing us to a world cup quarter final, the country will come to a standsfill. However, right now you can't blame the public for sufferimg from ptsd from watching McClean et al. I feel the same. The Irish rugby team have played some great stuff in that period. They didn't reach their lofty goals at world cups but at least they had them in the first place rather than aspiring to a plucky draw away to the likes of Denmark or Switzerland.
To mock the rugby team is small time and is every bit as horrendous to stomach as the smug rugby crew or the eqaully obnoxious GAA element.
The real war is childhood obesity and getting kids out playing sport whatever the code. Lets not turn on ourselves.
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