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Football is the game of injustice because not always who plays best is the winner.
Why?
because you can not put the ball in the net and it does not make the goal so important.
FIFA should remake the game of France and Ireland because of that goal by hand
a question to New Zealanders, as is the football in your country?
for all I know is not a sport so popular and so also heard that many play soccer until the age of fifteen and then not be importam.however saw the playoff game against bahrain saw that the stadium was cheio.falem porfavor as is the situation of football in New Zealand.[/b]
Only the poofs play football.
A massive generalisation, but pretty much true where i come from. The kids that dont want to get hurt or cant hack rugby play soccer, obviously these arent the most outstanding or committed of athletes so the teams arent that strong and they stop playing at 15 when their parents tell them to keep playing or get part time job.
The only guys that were actually good athletes in my schools 1st XI were the the kids only recently removed from the UK, the rest were just making up the numbers. When i was 3rd form the 1st XV challenged the 1st XI to a game of soccer. The rugby team won.
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There are kids out there that aren't brought up on nailing people off the ball, or are about skill rather than smacking people over. They are brought up with a bit of respect for the idea of not hurting people, so end up not going far in rugby. They just happen to not be meatheads.
Most rugby players aren't the example you just portrayed, but some are. A lot of kids tend to play soccer, but aren't of the "eat a pie, have a Lion Red, bash a guy in the eye.....then do a burg", variety. I guess being a decent human being can make someone a **** in the eyes of hard, mean mofos, but at least they end up being the kind of people you like being around.
Half the first XV's (which I made) are full of assholes, self-loving and bashing their way through life. The other half are decent blokes. Guess you choose who you want to be.
Nearly all first XI's in New Zealand are full of nice guys. Who won't smack you over up town. What a bunch of poofs.
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Who said anything about nailing people off the ball? i said athlete not brute.
You can be about skill and not smacking people over and still play rugby.. Conrad Smith is from around these parts.
The term "meathead" might be applicible to the teams you have been associated with, but i think we are on very different pages. My old school, New Plymouth Boys, has a reputation as fielding some of the smallest rugby teams in premier schoolboy rugby. We just dont get the size around here, one of the locks this year was only just over 70 kg
As such, the rugby culture has been about skill, brains, tenacity and especially hard work. We just wouldn't win any games if we tryed to just bash through everyone. This is why i dont really respect the soccer guys, the majority of them started out in rugby, and then flaked out because they couldnt handle all the trainings or were scared of coming up against guys that were bigger than you every week. I call those guys poofs.
To add insult to injury they prounce about with their two practices a week and then laud it over us how much better their sport is and how NZ is too rugby centred and how we wouldnt last two minutes on a soccer field. The rich soccer kids, cant stand them.
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Look dude, I love rugby, but when you open with "Only the poofs play football", whether or not it's a generalisation, or how you just justify it, it's a bit much. I've played 6 competitive games of soccer and maybe even close to 110 rugby games in my life and I only started playing that at just shy of 17 competitively, but I'm not into saying stuff like that about another code. Back track on that and we're sweet. By the way, I wasn't rich or a **** whilst playing those games.
While it anooyed me, I might as well point out that I'm only mildly annoyed mate. Every time I word something strongly lately, people seem to think I'm absolutely livid with rage as I type. I just like to make my point.
