For the 43 days that are going to be in it.
The Rugby World Cup will be on our screens very shortly, with 48 games live! I have to say that I’m not looking forward to it. I love sport. I watch anything from hurling to horse racing but rugby leaves me cold. It takes three minutes from the set-up of a scrum, which invariably falls down a couple of times, to the eventual appearance of the ball, which is then kicked up to Row Z in the stands.
We then have to suffer the television panel, where the words “players”, “lads”, or “men” will never be used. It will be “guys” all the way. But it is listening to every pub expert talking about Ireland’s success or failure “at the breakdown” that will push me over the edge. I wish our nation all the best in the upcoming games but this “guy” will not be looking for a front seat “at the breakdown”.Pat Burke Walsh,
Ballymoney,
Co. Wexford
Ruck!
The Scrum Of The Earth? (Irish Times Letters)
Meanwhile…
Angry arb asks:
Worst money back special ever From Paddypower?
local man bravely admits he finds one competitive team activity less interesting / appealing than all the others
film at eleven
It’s a thundering disgrace.
definitely needed to send a letter about this to the Irish Times.
Nobody gives a crap what you think, Mr Burke-Walsh.
I for one, welcome our rugby overlords. I can’t wait. And I don’t presume anyone cares that that’s the case either.
I give a crap
And second every word Pa Burke Walshe put his signature ta’
So there
Lick.
I can’t wait either.
And Pat, don’t watching the bloody thing you moron if you don’t like it. What kind of fool are you if you do ?
I’d say Pat Burke Walsh is a hoo-er for de english soccer.
oh the LOLs
He’s obviously a soccer ball chav or culchies ball mucker. Us rugger chaps don’t like his type anyways.
Don’t tune in then, don’t see the need for a letter really.
But don’t get me going on ‘it’s going to be a cauldron in there’………. :)
That really grinds my gears Quagmire
dont bait us broadsheet. we are rugby people, we are to goood for petty arguments.
Would a rugby person have misplaced that o from too to good?
I think not.
(I’m a soccer person so what do I know?!)
I didn’t realise we were expected to choose a sport. It seems like an awful waste to be limited to just one.
Because it speaks to the type of person you are, apparently
Total ridebag, in my case.
I feel the same about every sport. I keep it to myself though as i accept i am in the minority.
Poor Mr. B-W will end up watching RTE!
I love the game but He’s right about the “guy” conspiracy. Never “lads” “fellas” “players” ALWAYS guys.. as if by pain of death!
Rugby is great, even for casual, fair weather fans like myself. It’s GAA that leaves me cold, especially Gaelic football. It’s an ugly, drab sport full of fouls and tussles and fights with not not much entertainment value. But you can’t really say that in this country. It’s the last bastion of Old Ireland that remains untouched and above criticism, for some reason.
It’s a recent sport, the GAA football that is. Invented purely to spite the empire. Not really a sport, more like darts or snooker.
It’s on TV3. If he hadn’t written his letter would anyone have noticed it was on?
Had a check on Twitter and it’s #COYBIG so that’d be Boys and not Guys. In your face PBW!
Looking forward to the RWC myself.
As to clowns who write in to a paper to say he is not watching it ,,,,,Sad really.
Cum On Your Brother in Gortahork?
Sorcha:”Quick Fiachra look what this working class sort has written about us!”
Fiachra: (choking on his qinona oats with added protein in his Wedgewood bowl and being eaten with a silver spoon)”THe heathens, I shall do the guys roysh about this, we were laughing over the Heinos last night as those D8 types…haw haw haw”
should have written talk instead of do!
or maybe just not written anything at all
The only Fiachra I know is as working class as batter burgers for dinner.
I do like these rugby clichés though. It’s like a reeling in the years from the early 90’s and the early ’90s were great.
Wedgwood? That’s for povs. The devil is in the detail. Villeroy & Boch all the way, baby.
Exactly who gives a poo? Are we being forced to watch it?
man with double barrel Norman name insinuates rugby is a furren game. Get a life you toss pot
What i find interesting is that “sports fans” who don’t like rugby tend to be soccer fans rather than sports fans. They’ll rabidly follow the english team they support but never give a second thought to athletics/boxing/hurling/cycling/netball/whatever.
Actual sports fans enjoy most sports
What he means is he’ll watch anything as long as it’s hurling or horse racing.
What a moronic attitude. It rarely (almost never) takes 3 minutes to restart a match via a scrum.
43 days of
– people expressing how they dislike rugby
– people expressing how it isn’t a real sport because they don’t like it
– people saying it isn’t a real world cup because not every country in the world can field a team (unlike soccer and …… no other sport actually)
– people moaning about it being on TV, despite that having no impact on the televisation of their favourite sport
– constant inverse snobbery towards rugby, rugby fans and rugby coverage.
And it happens literally every time.
They think its them being smart too.
+1 sadly