https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_l9fWei6cw
Before they beat us 40-7.
Potty-mouthed Katy McLean, England women’s rugby team captain, delivers a strongly Anglo Saxon pep talk ahead of the semi-final of the Women’s Rugby World Cup in Paris last night.
The video was shown on Sky Sports last night but the channel has since apologised for the swearing.
No need for that kind of language in fairness.
Sky apologise for showing England’s expletive-ridden rugby huddle (Newstalk)
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Saw this yesterday alright. Nothing wrong with it. Good captain’s hype.
Didn’t they end up subbing most of their team with 30mins to go in order rest players/ give some other girls a run? Decent day for British sport all round yesterday with all that success in the Athletics Euros.
I am sure the Scots and Welsh were delighted to see England win the Rugby.
“No need for that kind of language in fairness.”
There’s a time and a place for swearing, and that was one of them.
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No such thing as bad language, just bad use of good language. This is a case of good use of good language. What the hell business is it of Sky’s anyway to be apologising on behalf of McLean? That’s the equivilant of the news apologising for an atrocity in Syria.
Funny you should say that. I think they have a version of that also when they blur the images from conflict zones, e.g. the child holding up the head, the pictures of dead people with their faces blurred.
I’d like to know what Niamh Horan has to say about ladies swearing like this…
Thank god that’s all over. The hype and exposure for this team was way out of proportion to their skills and achievements.
Most of the team only have a few years of rugby under them. It’s not like gymnastics, tennis, athletics where the elite women have been training seriously since they were 8.
And yet they were the first team to ever beat the defending champions.
Ever.
You’re full of poo as usual.
I dunno, maybe if you give them some exposure it’ll encourage 8 year old girls to want to play rugby and grow up to be these supposed elite women. Not that I care for it.
They were Grand Slam winners in 2013 and knocked out New Zealand in this World Cup. The fact that they may not have been playing the game that long makes their accomplishments all the more impressive.
It speaks volumes about the level of the sport.
And it’s one of those sports which will only improve if we never mention it.
About its neglect and marginalisation, maybe.
Put a sock in it Jock, good lad.
Aren’t rugby achievements always over-hyped? Semi-finals in a sport played seriously by 8 nations…
Interesting point Jock, you are the expert after all. I’m sure if I asked you could give a full biog on every player off the top of your head, tell me when they started to play the game, point to how they never played any GAA either (because of course if they’d been playing GAA which is very similar to Rugby in many ways that’d probably have to qualify as training seriously).
I think what Irish people really hate is being very very good at something on an international stage, being ranked number 4, beating the incumbent champions, winning European cups, getting to play for 3rd place in a RWC.
I think, nay, I know, you’re the foremost rugby expert in Ireland. That unlike all those other bozos you follow it all, from your local club through to the international team and everything in-between, and that you’ve been doing that since before rugby was cool, that you played at junior level in school and if it wasn’t for that injury you’d still be playing today, because if not, you’re a complete and total f**kin tool with pointless and uneducated comments like the ones you let spew out of your creepy little mind and let your facile fat fingers ploddingly type (see above).
Playing since I was 8 and still playing. I watch nearly all levels of the sport.
A good male inter County footballer might get into a lower AIL division team at full back after a few years playing junior rugby. He’s certainly not going to be playing international rugby ever.
I’d say you’re just a misogynist so. It baffles me that you can’t find it in you to support women’s rugby but still hold yourself out as a rugby puritan.
* purist even
Not a misogynist which is a pretty disgusting accusation. In the words of Chris Finch, “how can I hate women, my mother is one”.
I just hate group think and irrationality. I post on items that vex me.
Every misogynist who ever lived had a mother, ‘cept Adam.
That Chris Finch line is pretty weak to be fair! Or else there is no such thing as misogyny.. I really don’t see why it would vex you. I’m a big fan of the sport myself and have followed its development in the past 15 years with much enjoyment. I see the success, and the related publicity, of the Irish women’s team as a very good thing for overall development of the game in Ireland. Maybe you’re not a misogynist but the only reason I really think any man would take issue with this “hype and exposure” is that, deep down, they believe that it is man’s sport and the women are encroaching on that.
I feel bad for other sports and female athletes. Rugby monopolises a lot of media attention, undeservedly so in my opinion.
Where’s the love for Irish hockey?
It may be a disgusting accusation, but you seem to be a pretty disgusting person.
Oh wow, so you’ve been playing for four whole years now?!
Anyway, you probably should get off the internet and go clean your room now, there’s a good lad.
Those knocks to the head are catching up with you.
John Hayes’ experience would suggest otherwise.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hayes_(rugby_union)
Yea, actually good point, add to that list the likes of Ali Williams, Paul Sackey, Andy Barnes and Sonny Bill Williams, all of whom came late to the game. Jock, my pointless waste of genetic material friend, are an idiot.
The same clip was on TG4 and they haven’t apologised to the best of my knowledge. In fact if I heard right the commentator right he asking us to “Éisteacht leis na focail spreagadh ón captaen Sasana”.
Hilarious stuff.
Cameras going to places where they don’t belong…..
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Ah so what.
http://youtu.be/Crrw2Aqu9to
I f***ed England once, back in the day. Nothing to write home about.
What did you lie back and think of?
Irish captain.
We’re fecking Irish and we’re off to Penneys and then Supermac’s when we get home.
Don’t remember Sky apologising when Stevie Gerrard cursed in the huddle during the title run in.
Please, the hurt is still fresh, let’s not discuss it…..