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<blockquote data-quote="Bullitt" data-source="post: 197851"><p>If you're trying to sell the sport to a bunch of Rugby Leaguers who don't appreciate things like rucks, mauls and scrums. For the rest of us who do appreciate those aspects of the game it is very effective advertising. </p><p> [/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>When you already know about the game. If a newby who'd never seen the game before turned that on and made forwards-based rugby as the foundation of his opinion, he would soon get very bored with the sport.</p><p></p><p>Nothing is more beautiful in the world of sport then a well organised rolling maul to somebody with a trained eye and there is indeed a place in our sport for it. However, to take a ball back into a ruck constantly for 15-20 minutes, not even looking to pass further then 10 once, is not only boring for the spectator, it's boring for the players, it's boring for the ref, it's boring for the fans and it's boring to the kid who's just decided not to watch the sport any more.</p><p></p><p>It killed the game and gave it a poor ending.</p><p></p><p>Still, those 2,000,000 Munstermen who have so far claimed they were there to see Cantillon and co. beat the ABs in 1978 will have enjoyed it. They turn out in numbers and cheer everything when they win.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Bullitt, post: 197851"] If you're trying to sell the sport to a bunch of Rugby Leaguers who don't appreciate things like rucks, mauls and scrums. For the rest of us who do appreciate those aspects of the game it is very effective advertising. [/b][/quote] When you already know about the game. If a newby who'd never seen the game before turned that on and made forwards-based rugby as the foundation of his opinion, he would soon get very bored with the sport. Nothing is more beautiful in the world of sport then a well organised rolling maul to somebody with a trained eye and there is indeed a place in our sport for it. However, to take a ball back into a ruck constantly for 15-20 minutes, not even looking to pass further then 10 once, is not only boring for the spectator, it's boring for the players, it's boring for the ref, it's boring for the fans and it's boring to the kid who's just decided not to watch the sport any more. It killed the game and gave it a poor ending. Still, those 2,000,000 Munstermen who have so far claimed they were there to see Cantillon and co. beat the ABs in 1978 will have enjoyed it. They turn out in numbers and cheer everything when they win. [/QUOTE]
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