Rugby changing

[renenzworldcup]

Rugby is changing
Rugby has been changing since the day it started over years ago, we have seen massive changes to the rugby football game throughout the decades. With the rugby game now being one of the most physical games on the planet, once were rugby players but now professional athletes. That’s not saying that the early rugby teams weren’t professional, they were twice more than the athletes in today’s game.
Many rugby players before and during the 80’s had jobs, having to do fathering , physical work and training in mid week ,then playing and training on the weekend. Rugby was for sure no game for the weak hearted.
Is Rugby at its biggest and best? Or has it changed too much for us to understand the tactics? Today’s rugby is more brutal for sure. With some wingers being the same weigh as the forwards and having some forwards weight being the same as large mammals, they’re training every day to get bigger.
Have we benefited from these changes in the rugby football game? I am not sure , open rugby is a game of the past that’s for sure. When backs were backs and forwards were forwards the game was open, but now as new defense and attacking methods come in to focus we witness the slower game. It will be hard to tell what will the game be like in years to come. Will we have 8 ft players storming down men that hold the same weight as hippos? Or normal men chasing leopards down the line ?

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[Brightside]

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Many rugby players before and during the 80’s had jobs, having to do fathering , physical work and training in mid week ,then playing and training on the weekend. Rugby was for sure no game for the weak hearted.[/b]

That was called amateur rugby, it still exists and actually has the most players. You might have to get off your chair, however if you wander down to your local club you will be able to see a game like this. WARNING - MAY NOT BE AS PRETTY AS THE STUFF YOU SEE ON TV.

 

[GimleyUK]

I enjoyed the amateur game more in many ways.

I thought it was so admirable of a man working long hours to play for his country or the lions let alone for his club.

It made the players feel like one of us, they were just like your dad and his mates, only they were the best.

My Dad worked with Dai Morris, he was a god to me as a kid, he was one of the hardest open-sides ever to play Rugby and he worked with my Dad.

Unfortunately Rugby had to become professional because the separation between the poor and rich, and the regard for amateurism in different countries varied so massively.

In Wales many of our best players started to use Union as a trading floor for more profitable League Careers. Other players who would have been great coaches like Gareth Edwards, Barry John, Gerald Davies were banned for life for writting Autobiographies.

Professionalism was inevitable

 

[GimleyUK]

It is great though that rugby has not lost its separation from the supporters as much as other sports seem to. I often notice that former players will always take the time to chat with supporters, sign things for the kids, i admire this very much. Scott Quinnel and Robert Jones are great for a chat in the street our in the stands.

So was Grav, who we all miss dearly in Wales, I proudly have a match day program from England Wales at Twickenham 1982 we lost unfortunatly after we had beaten the french the week before. then france beat ireland in the last game to stop their grand slam

 

[renenzworldcup]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Brightside @ Apr 1 2009, 01:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

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Many rugby players before and during the 80’s had jobs, having to do fathering , physical work and training in mid week ,then playing and training on the weekend. Rugby was for sure no game for the weak hearted.[/b]

That was called amateur rugby, it still exists and actually has the most players. You might have to get off your chair, however if you wander down to your local club you will be able to see a game like this. WARNING - MAY NOT BE AS PRETTY AS THE STUFF YOU SEE ON TV.
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Hi, i wrote the article but it was never meant to go online. As you have noticed the english is wrong and i was testing something out online when it was forwarded, in reply to your message of course i am aware of amateur rugby and i often do get out of my chair, sometimes i notice its a little cheaper than paying $50 for a ticket.

 

[renenzworldcup]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GimleyUK @ Apr 1 2009, 03:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

I enjoyed the amateur game more in many ways.

I thought it was so admirable of a man working long hours to play for his country or the lions let alone for his club.

It made the players feel like one of us, they were just like your dad and his mates, only they were the best.

My Dad worked with Dai Morris, he was a god to me as a kid, he was one of the hardest open-sides ever to play Rugby and he worked with my Dad.

Unfortunately Rugby had to become professional because the separation between the poor and rich, and the regard for amateurism in different countries varied so massively.

In Wales many of our best players started to use Union as a trading floor for more profitable League Careers. Other players who would have been great coaches like Gareth Edwards, Barry John, Gerald Davies were banned for life for writting Autobiographies.

Professionalism was inevitable[/b]

 

[toxicfiend]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (renenzworldcup @ Apr 9 2009, 09:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Brightside @ Apr 1 2009, 01:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

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Many rugby players before and during the 80’s had jobs, having to do fathering , physical work and training in mid week ,then playing and training on the weekend. Rugby was for sure no game for the weak hearted.[/b]

That was called amateur rugby, it still exists and actually has the most players. You might have to get off your chair, however if you wander down to your local club you will be able to see a game like this. WARNING - MAY NOT BE AS PRETTY AS THE STUFF YOU SEE ON TV.
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Hi, i wrote the article but it was never meant to go online. As you have noticed the english is wrong and i was testing something out online when it was forwarded, in reply to your message of course i am aware of amateur rugby and i often do get out of my chair, sometimes i notice its a little cheaper than paying $50 for a ticket.
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man 50$ a ticket is nothing in pro sports shitty seats here for hockey games are at least 60$. People pay it so they charge it, just how things go

 

[Hall]

Pro Rugby players still have full time jobs, being Pro Rugby players.

I'm just about too young to remember the amatuer days but all I'll say is that I'm sort of glad I've always known it as a professional sport. I'm glad there's a distinction between what I can watch on the TV or see on the odd occasion I can make it down to Stockport to see Sale and the stuff I can watch at my local club or the stuff I play myself (Even if I am sublime at times ).

Its nice, nay inspiring, to be able to see athletes like Pierre Spies or people as talented as Brian O'Driscoll. For kids with aspirations to play at high levels I think its important that there are players who are able to devote their careers to Rugby, to become as good as they can possibly be.

These are just the ramblings of a seventeen year old who doesn't look back with rose tinted spectacles.

 

[alexrugby]

NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY

But I really felt threat of making rugby suffer when heard about the new rules:

-especially of possibility of collapsing Mauls