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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2017 RBS Six Nations] Round 3: England vs Italy (26/02/2017)
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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 840708" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>I'm aware of that but you can say that disproportionately WAY more people from Celt nations go out of their way to be arses. Considering the rugby watching population of England is probably more than Wales, Scotland and Ireland combined you'd expect far more English trolling yet the balance is very much **** being flung the other way and in greater quantities. It's not so much a case of saying all do it, just that on balance of who is flinging the most ****, it is overwhelmingly being flung at England than by England and a noticeable chunk of it is genuinely vile. Go back 6 years and you wouldn't have found an "anyone but Wales" mentality in England but during 2013-14 Welsh fans were so frequently being so **** to English fans that now an anyone but Wales mentality has been created. This all predates our success, it just showed that even when another side is being successful, we still get lots of **** thrown at us.</p><p></p><p>On the flip side, an anyone but Ireland mentality has not been created with many English supporting Ireland as their 2nd team (well most choose Italy but they don't have a chance). If anything Irish fans were better when they were successful and it's only since England have taken over as the form NH side that it's got a bit more heated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 840708, member: 56232"] I'm aware of that but you can say that disproportionately WAY more people from Celt nations go out of their way to be arses. Considering the rugby watching population of England is probably more than Wales, Scotland and Ireland combined you'd expect far more English trolling yet the balance is very much **** being flung the other way and in greater quantities. It's not so much a case of saying all do it, just that on balance of who is flinging the most ****, it is overwhelmingly being flung at England than by England and a noticeable chunk of it is genuinely vile. Go back 6 years and you wouldn't have found an "anyone but Wales" mentality in England but during 2013-14 Welsh fans were so frequently being so **** to English fans that now an anyone but Wales mentality has been created. This all predates our success, it just showed that even when another side is being successful, we still get lots of **** thrown at us. On the flip side, an anyone but Ireland mentality has not been created with many English supporting Ireland as their 2nd team (well most choose Italy but they don't have a chance). If anything Irish fans were better when they were successful and it's only since England have taken over as the form NH side that it's got a bit more heated. [/QUOTE]
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