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<blockquote data-quote="Canadian_Rugby_Guy" data-source="post: 28518"><p>I think it kind of goes both ways, rugby has many more subtleties than hockey does I've noticed (or so it seems). What I mean by this is that hockey is obviously hard, because you're dealing with basically extensions of yourself (i.e. the stick and skates.) whereas if you look at rugby all it looks like is flat line defense, take the ball and run like heck. Now to the trained eye, there is much more to rugby in the independant strategies of each position, the constant evolution of game keeps the players on their toes, and legends like Jonah Lomu don't neccessarily coast through everyone anymore unless they learn how to play in the modern style, even though Lomu revolutionalized play on the wing. Likewise, in hockey there was the use of more equipment allowing the players to be more aggressive. However, even today some of Maurice Richard's records aren't easy to beat. I'm not familiar enough with rugby to know how many records Lomu set, but it does appear that the sport has moved beyond Jonah, and he would have to resort to new tricks to score millions of tries as he has in the past. All this to say, Canadian_Rugger, you're looking at rugby from a Canadian point of view, the fact that people don't play the sport very well compared to the tier one nations doesn't give an adequate view of how tough the game really is, I'm sure me or you would get fried alive if we were placed straight into a game for players our age in NZ, just as half-decent hockey players from some tier two hockey nation would get pulverised here in hockey after seeing it as not so rough. So I'm not sure which is tougher, but I definitely enjoy rugby more, because they don't have stupid parents who like to get into fights.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canadian_Rugby_Guy, post: 28518"] I think it kind of goes both ways, rugby has many more subtleties than hockey does I've noticed (or so it seems). What I mean by this is that hockey is obviously hard, because you're dealing with basically extensions of yourself (i.e. the stick and skates.) whereas if you look at rugby all it looks like is flat line defense, take the ball and run like heck. Now to the trained eye, there is much more to rugby in the independant strategies of each position, the constant evolution of game keeps the players on their toes, and legends like Jonah Lomu don't neccessarily coast through everyone anymore unless they learn how to play in the modern style, even though Lomu revolutionalized play on the wing. Likewise, in hockey there was the use of more equipment allowing the players to be more aggressive. However, even today some of Maurice Richard's records aren't easy to beat. I'm not familiar enough with rugby to know how many records Lomu set, but it does appear that the sport has moved beyond Jonah, and he would have to resort to new tricks to score millions of tries as he has in the past. All this to say, Canadian_Rugger, you're looking at rugby from a Canadian point of view, the fact that people don't play the sport very well compared to the tier one nations doesn't give an adequate view of how tough the game really is, I'm sure me or you would get fried alive if we were placed straight into a game for players our age in NZ, just as half-decent hockey players from some tier two hockey nation would get pulverised here in hockey after seeing it as not so rough. So I'm not sure which is tougher, but I definitely enjoy rugby more, because they don't have stupid parents who like to get into fights. [/QUOTE]
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