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<blockquote data-quote="nam97" data-source="post: 158275"><p>Wrong, rugby is a messy, attritional battle with a dirty, ugly, brutal competition for the ball at it's heart and a tempo set by a skillful, territorial kicking game.</p><p></p><p>Occasional it opens up and a breath-taking flowing move will occur but that fleeting piece of perfection will have been earned by hard slog.</p><p></p><p>Don't be suckered by the hyperbolics of the highlight reels.....remember the game's fundamentals. Don't water it down to achieve more cheap thrills and appeal to kids & bandwagon jumpers.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Why? Why is it ok for nothing to happen for 72 minutes like in the France/England Semi-final? Why is rucking and kicking the only basics? What happened to passing, vision and running lines? Are they not equal in terms of importance? Why do you feel that everyone wearing the numbers 11-15 are unimportant to the game apart from making up the numbers on defence and occasionally entering a kicking duel? I'm honestly trying to understand your position, but to me it just doesn't seem to make any sense.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>By the comments that you have made, I'm not sure we're quite on the same page as to what running rugby means. We're not talking about a disorganized game like 7's, with outrageous final scores. We're simply saying that we want to see the emphasis change from kicking the ball and playing territory, to keeping the ball in hand and making the emphisis on the other basic skill, ball handling. There were something like 84 kicks in the final. I'm sorry but that is not entertaining, I want to see that number at least halved. </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>This is no longer an amateur game, and as such it should be run like a business. The more viewers you get the more money you receive from sponsors and as such there is more money to grow the game. There is not a neutral on the planet who likes watching a kicking duel like we saw in the final. My mother, who to her credit sat through most of the world cup games and finally became a fan after ten years of refusal during the World Cup. Now she is what is considered a casual fan, well that casual fan got up and left the room 20 minutes into the Final, because it was a terrible game. It only catered to the hardcore fan, and even then it was the select hardcore fan (read: English or South African). All I ever hear on this board is how the iRB is stuck in the past, and should leave itself of the Old Boys club and start developing rugby world wide. The same can be said for the product on the field, it's time they came out of the past and stopped catering solely to the hardcore. If the game stays the way it is, the game will not only be stagnant on the field but development of the game will stagnate as well.</p><p>[/b][/quote]</p><p></p><p>Exactly, spot on.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="nam97, post: 158275"] Wrong, rugby is a messy, attritional battle with a dirty, ugly, brutal competition for the ball at it's heart and a tempo set by a skillful, territorial kicking game. Occasional it opens up and a breath-taking flowing move will occur but that fleeting piece of perfection will have been earned by hard slog. Don't be suckered by the hyperbolics of the highlight reels.....remember the game's fundamentals. Don't water it down to achieve more cheap thrills and appeal to kids & bandwagon jumpers. [/b][/quote] Why? Why is it ok for nothing to happen for 72 minutes like in the France/England Semi-final? Why is rucking and kicking the only basics? What happened to passing, vision and running lines? Are they not equal in terms of importance? Why do you feel that everyone wearing the numbers 11-15 are unimportant to the game apart from making up the numbers on defence and occasionally entering a kicking duel? I'm honestly trying to understand your position, but to me it just doesn't seem to make any sense. By the comments that you have made, I'm not sure we're quite on the same page as to what running rugby means. We're not talking about a disorganized game like 7's, with outrageous final scores. We're simply saying that we want to see the emphasis change from kicking the ball and playing territory, to keeping the ball in hand and making the emphisis on the other basic skill, ball handling. There were something like 84 kicks in the final. I'm sorry but that is not entertaining, I want to see that number at least halved. This is no longer an amateur game, and as such it should be run like a business. The more viewers you get the more money you receive from sponsors and as such there is more money to grow the game. There is not a neutral on the planet who likes watching a kicking duel like we saw in the final. My mother, who to her credit sat through most of the world cup games and finally became a fan after ten years of refusal during the World Cup. Now she is what is considered a casual fan, well that casual fan got up and left the room 20 minutes into the Final, because it was a terrible game. It only catered to the hardcore fan, and even then it was the select hardcore fan (read: English or South African). All I ever hear on this board is how the iRB is stuck in the past, and should leave itself of the Old Boys club and start developing rugby world wide. The same can be said for the product on the field, it's time they came out of the past and stopped catering solely to the hardcore. If the game stays the way it is, the game will not only be stagnant on the field but development of the game will stagnate as well. [/b][/quote] Exactly, spot on. [/QUOTE]
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