Aussie Community Rugby
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@Kiwiwomble as the coach said to me just now on the phone: call the Health Department - we've got a pandemic of 1-day man flu going on.
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@NTA said in Aussie Community Rugby:
About 40 players out on the weekend. Had to forfeit 2s.
Fourteen of them front row.So guess who played a full game* at tight head prop for first grade? This dumb fuck...
The guy opposite me was half my age and twice my size, but I managed to hold him off mostly thanks to my Fijian second rower and bringing the big bastard down low where he was very uncomfortable. I reckon our scrum gave away about 200kg.
We lost 76 to 5 but scored the last try.
*The ref - who I know - mercifully called it off with 6 to go
Last try wins.
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In Sydney Rugby this week:
7 Matches forfeited across Womens, Premier, and Subbies
Another 8 games in Subbies alone don't have referees.
In the meantime, there are 18 schools games that are getting officials appointed.And people wonder why I keep saying schools are fucking the game up.
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I never really got this thread, TBH.
And then I volunteered at my son’s cricket club. He’s decent, but will peak at prob club level.
And thus, I love being properly involved. Reading through this is so relatable in so many ways. Surrey cricket gets so much right, but the players parents have so little idea about how much small decisions, on their part, fuck everything up.
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@MajorRage there are parents who fuck it up for everyone.
For all the challenges of running a senior Rugby club, I would take it over running kids sport of any kind, because the egos your dealing with are far worse.
Good on you for getting involved. My Dad was the coach, bus driver, and manager for my junior cricket out in the country, and while it had friction occasionally it was a great experience, looking back.
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One for you @NTA https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/cy0qg92de8vo
"In my experience, from what I see day to day, Australian rugby union is in fantastic health, when you are on the ground here and you experience the true reality of the [size of the] AFL and rugby league," he tells Rugby Union Weekly.
"The club game here is in rude health. You just have these two other sports that are thicker in the blood [of the Australian sporting public].
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@MajorRage once you take NRL and AFL into account, sure.
The Brisbane club scene isn't actually too bad - at Premier level. There is basically nothing below it of course, because QLD Subbies is a Friday night comp that is practically dead.
And this is the issue: people only see the green grass in their backyard, and ignore the neighbours' dusty wastelands.
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@MajorRage said in Aussie Community Rugby:
One for you @NTA https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/cy0qg92de8vo
"In my experience, from what I see day to day, Australian rugby union is in fantastic health, when you are on the ground here and you experience the true reality of the [size of the] AFL and rugby league," he tells Rugby Union Weekly.
"The club game here is in rude health. You just have these two other sports that are thicker in the blood [of the Australian sporting public].
" If rugby league and AFL didn't exist in this country, I think the Wallabies would be hard pressed to ever lose a game."
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@NTA said in Aussie Community Rugby:
In Sydney Rugby this week:
7 Matches forfeited across Womens, Premier, and Subbies
Another 8 games in Subbies alone don't have referees.
In the meantime, there are 18 schools games that are getting officials appointed.And people wonder why I keep saying schools are fucking the game up.
for our 3rd grade theyve had two clubs drop thier teams...so we're second on the table but will now end the season with 3 byes...and so we're frantically trying to arrange some game to keep guys engagedand sharp going into finals...annoying
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Just had our field closed until Thursday after the rain in Sydney - which sucks as we train Wednesday nights.
Suspect it is mostly a move by Parra Eels to keep everyone away from the facility as they probably chopped it up playing on the main field there Saturday
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@antipodean said in Aussie Community Rugby:
@MajorRage said in Aussie Community Rugby:
One for you @NTA https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/cy0qg92de8vo
"In my experience, from what I see day to day, Australian rugby union is in fantastic health, when you are on the ground here and you experience the true reality of the [size of the] AFL and rugby league," he tells Rugby Union Weekly.
"The club game here is in rude health. You just have these two other sports that are thicker in the blood [of the Australian sporting public].
" If rugby league and AFL didn't exist in this country, I think the Wallabies would be hard pressed to ever lose a game."
TBF, while the statement itself is complete hyperbole,
There are a huge number of incredible athletes with the right body shape in Australia playing AFL and NRL. It isn't all that hard to imagine the quality of the Wallabies if guys like Tino, Haas, Liam Martin up front, and Moses, Hammer etc in the backs grew up playing rugby. Couple of big AFL units would help as well. This country is jam packed with sporting talent, and unfortunately for rugby, they don't get first pick.
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@mariner4life that's true of every country that plays rugby - most people are playing a different sport.
And the NRL is over represented by Kiwis and Pasifika these days anyway.
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i said the right body shape. England's huge soccer playing population isn't going to have the same rugby pool.
Australia has heaps of islanders, and lots of tall white dudes. Oh and fast as indigenous blokes too.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Community Rugby:
i said the right body shape. England's huge soccer playing population isn't going to have the same rugby pool.
Australia has heaps of islanders, and lots of tall white dudes. Oh and fast as indigenous blokes too.
England's soccer players, like other country's soccer players are lightweight because they're playing soccer. They aren't midgets. If they preferred to play rugby they'd have bulked up.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Community Rugby:
i said the right body shape. England's huge soccer playing population isn't going to have the same rugby pool.
Australia has heaps of islanders, and lots of tall white dudes. Oh and fast as indigenous blokes too.
i get it, does league have any presense in south africa? dont think so, so doesnt feel like there is direct drain on the "rugby body type" or those that want to play an impact physical sport
