Rugby World Cup Bid 2023

Read the comments from the chief bogballer, what an arrogant prick.

Really hope they don't get the funding now that they were gonna get

Het-field wrote: tony grealish wrote: Ah stop, this provides a bit of a chuckle in an otherwise utterly depressing week. The cheek of those dastardly focking Scots and Welsh loike! Hord lock goys!! I'm not sure why too many people would get a chuckle from this. After all, this would have had wider benefits beyond the sport itself.

Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: I really don't know how anybody from Ireland could be happy about this outcome. Even if you hated rugby, surely you want your country to do well. This would have been a huge positive for Ireland in so many ways!

I was delighted ye IRFU lost their bid. I don't think it would have been that great for the country. The Welsh/Scots/English & French would bring over respectable numbers but outside of that where would the support come from?

I've outlined before why I dislike rogby so much. I work with a huge amount from a rogby background and a sizeable majority are up their arse. Yes there's sound ones but the majority are quite arrogant. 

Denis Irwin wrote: tony grealish wrote: [QUOTE=Denis Irwin] [QUOTE=tony grealish] competition. 1. If you are using that theory. FIFA world cup is effectively a 4/5 team tournament

Edited by ABFC - 17 Nov 2017 at 3:36pm

I really don't know how anybody from Ireland could be happy about this outcome.

Denis Irwin wrote: tony grealish wrote: Het-field wrote: Denis Irwin wrote: Some chip on your shoulder (ironically given your jibe at Rub in another thread) there ABFC did a rugby player run off with your missus or something Inverted snobbery as ususal from you Rugby threads are always riddled with it.  As sure as night follows day. The catch all knee jerk defense of the outraged Irish rugger bugger whenever they are called out on actual snobbery, arrogance, pomposity..etc.  This one must be on page one of the oirish rogby goy manual. Yeah that's exactly it....... Jesus the Anti Rugby brigade are a precious bunch. Between being offended by an advertising campaign by one of the sports sponsors and more or less suggesting no-one can follow a sport because of where they are from

I knew lads from fee paying “rugby” schools who wouldn’t go out with girls (or dream of marrying girls) from non-fee paying schools.
The snobbery is there in abundance, it is not made up.

Denis Irwin wrote: tony grealish wrote: Denis Irwin wrote: tony grealish wrote: Devrozex wrote: I'd imagine another reason the anti-rugby brigade are so pleased with the outcome is that Ireland would be in serious danger of actually winning a RWC if they were to host one. Home advantage in rugby is probably greater than in most other team sports so we would never have a better chance at winning the yoke.   This just gets better! Yeah, because they've acquitted themselves with such distinction so far in the short history of this ten team 'world' tournament. I believe the record reads zero from eight attempts to make it into the last eight of this ten team tournament? They'd be in SERIOUS danger of winning it next time out with home advantage though!! 1. It's not a ten team tournament 2. They have qualified for QFs 1. It's effectively a ten team tournament in that outside of the six nations and southern hemisphere four you are dealing with minnows/part timers/semi pro teams..etc. Cue an outraged LB charging into the thread to tell me once more how rogby union fever is sweeping the nation in Belgium and that there are hundreds of full time professional rogby players there. 2. I meant to say ''past the last eight''  (not ''into the last eight'') of this ten team tournament. My mistake, fair cop. We're all well aware of their repeated failures at the quarter final stage of this competition. 1. If you are using that theory. FIFA world cup is effectively a 4/5 team tournament

Jaysus, you lads really don't help yourselves.

Thirteen different countries have made it to the final of the FIFA world cup. Drill down further and you'll find quite a few others that have made it to semi final and quarter final stages. It's also a competition where on a regular basis previous winners, finalists and semi finalists fail to even qualify for the final stages because, unlike rogby, the depth of competition is so substantial. Come back to me the day even a sh*t rugby team like Italy fails to qualify for the RWC.

 The depth of competition in football is absolutely massive compared to Rugby. Rugby is played professionally in a whopping ten countries world wide and in only two of those countries could you make an argument for it being the most popular sport there. Football is the one truly global sport and is played at a full time professional level across every continent on the planet.  Dress it up whatever way you want but, in a global context, Rugby union is an elitist minority sport that is played professionally in a relatively small number of countries and that has f*ck all appeal or audience outside of those countries.

Gotta get back to work with the rugger toffs now.

tony grealish wrote: Denis Irwin wrote: tony grealish wrote: Devrozex wrote: I'd imagine another reason the anti-rugby brigade are so pleased with the outcome is that Ireland would be in serious danger of actually winning a RWC if they were to host one. Home advantage in rugby is probably greater than in most other team sports so we would never have a better chance at winning the yoke.   This just gets better! Yeah, because they've acquitted themselves with such distinction so far in the short history of this ten team 'world' tournament. I believe the record reads zero from eight attempts to make it into the last eight of this ten team tournament? They'd be in SERIOUS danger of winning it next time out with home advantage though!! 1. It's not a ten team tournament 2. They have qualified for QFs 1. It's effectively a ten team tournament in that outside of the six nations and southern hemisphere four you are dealing with minnows/part timers/semi pro teams..etc. Cue an outraged LB charging into the thread to tell me once more how rogby union fever is sweeping the nation in Belgium and that there are hundreds of full time professional rogby players there. 2. I meant to say ''past the last eight''  (not ''into the last eight'') of this ten team tournament. My mistake, fair cop. We're all well aware of their repeated failures at the quarter final stage of this competition.

1. If you are using that theory. FIFA world cup is effectively a 4/5 team tournament