Funniest/Wierdest thing to happen on a rugby field/training whilst playing

[racingmetrofan]

In under 15s we were in a huddle with our coach doing a team talk before our game, he started telling us (in quite a low voice) 'if there are hands in the ruck put the boot in, stamp on their fingers to get them to release the ball', suddenly there was this indignant squeak and the oppositions coach pops up lurking right outside our huddle and started shouting 'you can't do that, that's against the law, that's wrong, you're setting a bad example', to which our coach responded with a punch/shove that sent him flying 10 meters down the pitch into the muddy bottom corner. Obviously he'd been lurking around trying to hear our gameplan on lineout calls or something.

Another one was the old guy streaks down the touchline, winger dives him at an angle and procedes to take out his legs, while his own failing legs are tripping up all the over eager parents standing right on the touchline.

Probably the most cringeworthy one was some posh scrumhalf who punched our flyhalf and started mouthing off and calling him a pikey, then his dad started joining in shouting at our players. Our flyhalf promptly sent a perfectly weighted penalty kick to touch onto the dad's flash Mercedes windscreen. The look on his face...

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

I still find it very strange that people called Cape sides 'soft'

Yeah but I think it has more to do with our set pieces, particularly the srum, not being up to the standards of the central and Northern sides which has a bit of truth to it in general but our best are just as good though IMO; however our best get lured away to teams that value scrummaging more.

 

[Groundhog]

ever seen a seagull crap on your coach when hes giving a serious team talk

 

[lucky number 7]

We were having a ver serious team talk in the dressing room on the eve of a final after a light session.

When suddenly something is thrown in from the u14's (through a gap between ceiling and the wall) which falls perfectly onto the shoulder of our dozy south african prop ....it took him about 10 seconds of everyone breaking their shite laughing at him (including coaches) to realise that there was a condom dripping lube down his shirt....he jumps up to the cry "What the **** is that! jeezuz"

Probably one of the most hilarious things I ever remember witnessing.

 

[lucky number 7]

Haha, I played in a game against Norths U19 four years ago when I was 15yrs old, when the number 8 detached from the scrum, ran back 10m and took a hurling dive into centre of the scrum causing it to collapse. He was red carded, and hurled abuse at the ref non-stop till he was order away from the grounds. He coined a line I've never forgotten "Ref it wasn't me, G.O.D".

Never knew napoleon Dynamite played rugby

 

[formerlyfastwing]

I played a game with Jason Leonard, he was playing 12, and I was playing 13. HIs opposite number ran at him like a run away freight train, less the speed and weight. He smashed into Jason and knocked him out cold. Jason hel him up, while off loading to my, then laid him down like a father laying down his child, gentle as can be, then stood over him shout to the sideline to come and help the little fella out. I don't think the guy had any idea who he was facing.

 

[ranger]

This one isn't from when i was playing as such but its the most surreal rugby experience ive had.

I was playing age group rugby against Wellington quite a few years ago, and our game coincided with the NPC sides playing each other. A few players from the Wellington side came down to the clubrooms before our match to talk to us about goals and work ethic and all that, and then the floor was opened to questions.
Now earlier in that morning at the captains run one of the jokers of the side had got himself in the position where he was being dared to streak across the field at the NPC game (i think $50 was the prize offered), he had said he wasn't afraid to do it at all (mentioning that he had a massive todger so getting naked wasn't and issue, and that his step was so mean the security guards wouldnt catch him) but his one reservation was he didn't want to get smashed by Ma'a Nonu when he ran past him.
So, when were able to ask the players questions, the first question was from that guy directed at Nonu; "If there was a streaker at tonights game, would you tackle him?". Everyone had a bit of a laugh; Nonu just chuckled, gave a shrug and says "You boys know i always just play with my insticts" (i'm pretty sure those were his exact words, its been a while.)

The guy decided not to go ahead with the dare, but coincidentally someone else had decided to streak that night.

We like to think we planted an idea in his mind that morning.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Sorry to bump this thread but it is always fun an I came over it just there.

Anyway... A couple months ago I was playing in my school and our hooker, Class tight player not great in the loose, got the ball off the inside centre and was clean through at about the 10m line. He reached the 22 and when the FB came to tackle him he attempted a sidestep, this was the first time he had room to sidestep since about u10's and he promptly fell over knocked the ball on made a painful grunt and had to be taken off and was injured for about two weeks.

 

[big ginger 8]

I got a wedgie in a maul about two weeks ago.

 

[Seaton]

Sorry to bump this thread but it is always fun an I came over it.

Anyway... A couple months ago I was my school hooker, lass tight not loose, got inside and was clean through when the FB (be creative in name calling) came, this was the first time and promptly made a painful grunt and had to be taken off and was injured for about two weeks.

Others could do it better, but I never claimed to be Robert Burns.

 

[Conal]

in the yorkshire cup u16's
our outhalf kicked the ball long trying to find touch , the middlesbrough was perfectly placed to run onto and catch the ball seemed to hesitate in mid-air
our number 8 to be fair was a brute for the age level was bearing down on him, he proceeded to shout rather loudly "****" followed by volley ball style punching the ball just to avoid contact
upon landing was still mullerd by the number 8

 

[Larksea]

I charged a kick down with the side of my face once big time. Took me a while to recover and my face was red and partly bruised pretty quickly. I remember my team mates laughing their arses off while some of the opposition actually stopped to see if I was ok.

playing touch rugby with some guys from work and there is a guy who when ever he gets the ball in his hands he kinda looses control of his feet. Like his brain can't control both at the same time and he would just fall over. He would run onto the ball hard out and look impressive but as soon as the ball hit his hands he would lose control of his legs and fall over without anyone touching him. Was fricken funny, just thinking about it makes me laugh.

 

[Saintjay]

Great thread. Ok two things that involved me being stuck on my arse. A thought that may give some people great pleasure

When I first learnt to play rugby it was at Queen Anne High School in Scotland. Hence my soft spot for Scottish rugby and the great David Sole. Anyway due to being the wee english fella I was normaly put at full back. The coach gave lessons in catching the high ball as "Elbows in and palms to god".

Needless to say during one game the opponets full back. Who was the U13 equal of Serge Blanco kicked a ball so high it came down with ice on. Remembering my training I squeaked out "Mine" and adopted the elbows in palms to god stance. Everyone then stood in awe as I jumped in the air like a scottish salmon, then letting the ball slip straight through my hands. The point hit me square in the mouth with bits of blood and gum shield flying I landed on my arse. The ball looped into the air without touching the ground and was caught by the other team. I was subbed and so began my career as a flanker.

A good few years ago I was playing against Olney RFC. Who had a rep for being a little dirty and full of hard lads. So my team were some what surprised when they took to the pitch wearing pink and grey. We had never faced them and at the time pink was not a rugby players colour of choice.

As the game went on various on and off the ball fights broke out. Just after half time I was in the back line defending and as all good flankers I was just about to smash the centre running at me ball in hand. I got down low eyed up the area I was going to hit and just as I was about to launch, the centre stopped dead in his tracks. I looked up at him from my very bent over position and he hit me with a right cross that would have made George Foreman proud. Hitting my square on the chin.

I don't remember much after that I am told all hell broke loose. The moral of that story is don't say things to hard people about their mothers. Or to be more exact what you did to dear old mum Friday night before the game.

 

[SelimNiai]

One moment I do remember was a game for Bristol Cathedral School, cant remember who it was against but their pitch had a dramatic slope at the far end and beyond the pitch there was a small river. It was a really rainy day, dont think I've ever been wetter, and a close game. In last few minutes we were down by 3 and our winger who was a cocky sun of a gun breaks away and goes in for the try. He slides in and just keeps going, limbs flailing to try to stop. Yes folks, he slid headfirst into said river.

 

[lucky number 7]

Had my shorts ripped off and jersey pulled off in front of a pretty sizeable home crowd...Thank god I decided against going commando that day .

 

[Toby Faletau-Jones]

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[Olliekooga]

As a prop I dont usually find myself on the shoulder of the ball carrier in the final third of the pitch but there I was. The centre drew the oppo 15 perfectly and popped the ball off to me and i was unapposed under the posts... or into the posts as it was. I had paid so much attention to the ball carrier and catching the ball I ran smack bang into the post protector and sort of fell/ flopped over the line a bit dazed and confused. Thankfully the ref awarded the try, couldnt prevent me being awarded "c**k de la Jour" however - oh the shame

 

[TRF_heineken]

Funniest Thing:

I was playing for the 3rd team for my High School against an invitational team from Botswana (our High School was the closest school to the Botswana border that had a hostel). Anyways, during our warm-up we decided to work on our Line-outs as we saw that they had a really tall lock and might be a bit of a challenge during line-outs. While we were doing it, they just passed the ball to each other, didn't practise set-plays or scrums or line-outs or anything like that.

Then the match kicked off and we started pretty well scoring 3 tries within the first 20 minutes of the game, eventually they got their hands on the ball, passed it to their fly half who wanted to kick for territory, which he did pretty well, as we were starting to line-up for the lineout, my opposite number 1 came to the lineout, a bit out of breath, and went on all fours, seeing that it was very hot, i felt sorry for the guy and said to the ref maybe he should call for the medic or bring him some water, which they did, after they attended to him, he remained on all fours, and then the ref said, "get up, we need to put the ball in play"... Then... The tall lock came and stand on top of the prop still on all fours, and prepared for the lineout... to which we burst out laughing as we have never seen that before on a rugby field.

Weirdest: this happened in one of the games my brother played, he was playing for a place in the under 18 Limpopo Craven Week team, it was about 35 degrees celcius that day and while they were warming up running from one end of the field to the other passing between players, the Ball burst in mid air!

 

[cyRil]

I charged a kick down with the side of my face once big time. Took me a while to recover and my face was red and partly bruised pretty quickly. I remember my team mates laughing their arses off while some of the opposition actually stopped to see if I was ok.

Yeah, I've done the same. Not pleasant and have to play the rest of the game without being able to feel or move the one side of your face.

 

[DuncTheDoodle]

On the same subject, I once had somebody litteraly knocked out after having a charge down to the face in a match once, straight after I'd had a ball in the face during a pre-match kicking warm-up, hence no sympathy from me as I thought he was milking it. All the players stopped and surrounded him, and I just picked up the ball and walked slowly 50 metres and put the ball down, before the referee realised he hadn't blown his whistle and, as such, had to award me the try. It was brilliant.