Which do you prefer and why?
2007-09-19 04:34:56 · 28 answers · asked by Colin H 3 in Sports ➔ Rugby
Rugby! More variety and entertainment in the game!
More than just kicking a ball back and for!
2007-09-19 04:41:32 · answer #1 · answered by Welshchick 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Rugby football or association football?
Rugby is, of course, the more masterly sport. But then football has its uses - what else would the Dorises do when the real men are playing rugby?
Can anyone tell me why most pro association footballers are so precious? I'm thinking Drogba, Ronaldo and almost every Italian. Whatever happened to the hard men of football - Stiles, Hunter, Beckenbauer etc. Bet they'd have been good in the ruck.
2007-09-19 16:54:16 · answer #2 · answered by J S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I prefer rugby as it's a far more physical game which means that generally there's a lot more to watch. In football, I find often that it's harder to get involved in a game unless it's (a) really fast paced, or (b) a goal fest. I also get annoyed with the players' abilities to be knocked down with a feather.
Also, I think that the respect the players have for the referees should be an example to football - what the ref says goes, and NO-ONE backchats. Backchatting results in a 10 minute sin bin, so players don't do it. In football, it is becoming more and more common to see payers ganging up on and intimidating refs, often into making bad decisions.
2007-09-19 11:42:37 · answer #3 · answered by brownbug78 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rugby Union
2007-09-19 12:28:05 · answer #4 · answered by Sc00ter 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Rugby...football is fast becoming a non-contact game like basketball.I don't reckon the best teams today would have been able to cope with the rules of the 50s/60s and 70s.You only have to touch some players and they're rolling around in agony.
2007-09-22 12:03:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definately Rugby it's more exciting than Football and you're allowed to tackle and not get pulled for it.
I can watch a whole game of rugby but only the highlights for football.
2007-09-19 17:16:18 · answer #6 · answered by Nola 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't choose between sports I like.
I get very bored watching football after I've been watching rugby. But then I get back into it and realise that the tension is constant with greater highs.
I would watch a rugby match between teams I don't care about, I have never lasted more than 15mins doing this with football.
But then again I've never cried watching an England rugby highlights, unlike the tears I get watching 3 Lions on YouTube.
But that Rugby WC was greater satisfaction even though it was expected.
Different times, different feelings.
2007-09-19 11:54:22 · answer #7 · answered by Simon D 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Rugby!
2007-09-22 13:50:48 · answer #8 · answered by Clive M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Football played according to the rules of the school of Rugby.
Why? No speculation with the score...unless you are 125 to 0. It is just an awesome game. Rugby is a brute game played by gentlemen while Football is a fine game played by brutes.
2007-09-19 15:11:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anunnaki 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rugby, you don't get the same type of tension at the grounds as you do with football, and now that some of these footie players are paid in a week, what doctors get paid in a year i fear the true spirit of the game has gone.
2007-09-19 11:49:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why RUGBY of course!
Out of many reasons, for me the most compelling is that if you rolled around on the pitch faking an injury in Rugby you would not only be laughed at you would wake up the next morning with cleat marks all over your body.
I just hate it when 'professional' athletes fake injury to get an advantage over their opponents.
2007-09-19 17:42:12 · answer #11 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋