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<blockquote data-quote="OedipussyRex" data-source="post: 673862" data-attributes="member: 71677"><p>New to the forum and Rugby. Back in February I heard a joke that had a Haka as part of the punchline and shared it with my mother. "What's a Haka?" she asked. In looking for a video to show her, all I could find were All Black videos. As a 'Merican, I knew who the All Blacks were, but I couldn't have named another Rugby team on a bet. So I decided to watch some Rugby, partly because the NFL season was over and, because I don't care for the other major US sports, and partly because I was jonesing to watch some organized violence. Luckily the Super Rugby season had just started. Also luckily for my data limit, I found that DirecTV has a couple/few Rugby channels, currently showing ITM, ABSA Curry, and The Rugby CHampionship, which makes a nice follow-up to Super Rugby. </p><p></p><p>So I've been watching Rugby for a little over half a year. I've picked up on many of the Laws and have even gotten my mother and aunt interested, but questions still remain. Like "What's with the scrum?" As far as I can tell, there are two purposes: Offensively, if losing, hope the other team commits a penalty so you can kick the ball for field position or for goal; and defensively, hope for a lot of resets to run time off the clock. </p><p></p><p>So what subforum is there for idiots like me to ask their idiotic questions without getting the Rugby equivalent of RTFL? Things like, what's difference between the first and second five-eighths? Or why is it called a "grubber"?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OedipussyRex, post: 673862, member: 71677"] New to the forum and Rugby. Back in February I heard a joke that had a Haka as part of the punchline and shared it with my mother. "What's a Haka?" she asked. In looking for a video to show her, all I could find were All Black videos. As a 'Merican, I knew who the All Blacks were, but I couldn't have named another Rugby team on a bet. So I decided to watch some Rugby, partly because the NFL season was over and, because I don't care for the other major US sports, and partly because I was jonesing to watch some organized violence. Luckily the Super Rugby season had just started. Also luckily for my data limit, I found that DirecTV has a couple/few Rugby channels, currently showing ITM, ABSA Curry, and The Rugby CHampionship, which makes a nice follow-up to Super Rugby. So I've been watching Rugby for a little over half a year. I've picked up on many of the Laws and have even gotten my mother and aunt interested, but questions still remain. Like "What's with the scrum?" As far as I can tell, there are two purposes: Offensively, if losing, hope the other team commits a penalty so you can kick the ball for field position or for goal; and defensively, hope for a lot of resets to run time off the clock. So what subforum is there for idiots like me to ask their idiotic questions without getting the Rugby equivalent of RTFL? Things like, what's difference between the first and second five-eighths? Or why is it called a "grubber"? [/QUOTE]
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