bumpernut (Antrim) - Posts: 1852 - 10/11/2016 14:06:36    1933330

I like rugby. I don't think I'm being anti-rugby by calling a spade a spade re: rugby playing demographics.

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12440 - 10/11/2016 14:22:48    1933333

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13833 - 10/11/2016 14:43:45    1933342

And some of us are bored!!
bumpernut (Antrim) - Posts:1483 - 10/11/2016 14:06:36 1

How can you be bored bumpernut?

Sure it's Thurday and you are supposed to working on the "Proposed New Casement Park" design, with the design team who work in your building.

bumpernut revealed earlier this week that he has a vested interest in the New Casement Project, he is attached to the Design team.

GaryMc82 (Derry) - Posts: 3026 - 10/11/2016 15:29:02    1933358

alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 10/11/2016 18:11:05    1933409

this thread has gone very strange now that people from munster and other areas in ireland who are very pro rugby are telling people how rugby is perceived in dublin to people from dublin who are apathetic about rugby or are fans of rugby just not the way its so based on class in dublin

alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 10/11/2016 18:25:30    1933414

Alano.In what clubs did.u have bad experiences

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 10/11/2016 18:30:49    1933415

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8152 - 10/11/2016 19:10:11    1933424

alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 10/11/2016 19:17:03    1933426

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 10/11/2016 19:57:30    1933433

hill16no1man (Dublin) -I think that Ormond is trying to tell us that he knows more about what happens in Dublin than yourself or indeed anyone who lives there. I think you need to bring Ormond on a tour of Dublin and take in a a couple of locations extra to Landowne Rd and the other stadium which nobody appears to own (I forget its name!!). Rugby was always a 'status' sport in Dublin and still is although some of the best rugby players started off playing our games.

browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 10/11/2016 21:18:12    1933448

Sometimes I think the GAA should start their own radio station. Reason is that the commercial radio stations don't really cover the games.
Irish language has Radio na Life and Radio na Gaeltacht
Christians have a radio station also.
Why not a GAA themed radio station? slán.

galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2625 - 10/11/2016 21:35:08    1933455

I don't know who was doing the commentary for Saturdays game on BT Sport but it seemed every time an Irish man caught a high ball he put it down to the skills developed playing gaelic football. It made me smile both because I know it is something that annoys some in the rugby community and also I don't think the commentator has seen a lot of gaelic football in the last few years.

Soma (UK) - Posts: 2630 - 10/11/2016 21:59:32    1933465

I don't know who was doing the commentary for Saturdays game on BT Sport but it seemed every time an Irish man caught a high ball he put it down to the skills developed playing gaelic football. It made me smile both because I know it is something that annoys some in the rugby community and also I don't think the commentator has seen a lot of gaelic football in the last few years.

Soma (UK) - Posts:1647 - 10/11/2016

You'd wonder how New Zealand ever became any good at rugby without the GAA background alright.

Surprised the Cubs win wasn't put down to somebody having a bit of experience playing hurling too.

if_in_doubt (Kildare) - Posts: 3691 - 10/11/2016 22:27:59    1933469

Do you spend much time in dublin?
Rugby barely exists on the northside
it's a well to do sport in dublin
Not a perception it's a fact and the fact they have a better than others attitude and personality is the main reason it only exists in upper class pockets. They make themselves inclusive and don't want people not in the same lifestyle bracket.
Rugby in say limerick is a different game to rugby in Dublin, most ordinary people in limerick city follow munster, in dublin unless your from an upper class area or background 99% of the rest of us will never have gone to see a Leinster match or have any interest in them.

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts:11343 - 10/11/2016

Nonsense hill.

Plenty of rugby right in the heart of the northside in places like Clontarf and Sutton...

I know a chap living in Ballymun (he calls it Santry for some reason but that's beside the point). The closest rugby camp for one of his sons last summer was in Ashbourne.

Take out the colleges, schools and a few patches in close proximity along the coastline and there's almost no rugby presence on the northside. Hard to see that ever change considering the size of some of the GAA clubs and underage football teams around the place.

if_in_doubt (Kildare) - Posts: 3691 - 10/11/2016 22:35:36    1933473

Huge crossover between GAA and Rugby in the general Athlone area which I think is representative of whats going on across many other parts of Connacht. Robbie Henshaw, Jack and Luke Carty, Danny Qualter , Niall Murray who have all played for Ireland u-18 rugby ,are on various trajectories in serious rugby and are all from Gaelic Football backgrounds. The latter 4 have all played football for my home county at under age level, the most non-traditional rugby county I can think of but i believe all permanently lost to the GAA.
Connacht Rugby with its Green Shoots campaign is all pervasive and is light years ahead of its equivalent in the Connacht Council ( and before you say it, they are also 'professional' with their permanent and paid staff )

facethepuckout (Roscommon) - Posts: 221 - 10/11/2016 23:07:55    1933478

This week in Britain, the Irish Post newspaper devotes six of its 40 pages to Rugby including the whole of its front and back pages.
The newspaper gives two pages to reports on Gaelic games that took place last weekend. There is no preview whatsoever of the All Britain Junior Football Club Final between John Mitchells (Liverpool) and Dunedin Connollys (Edinburgh), a major highlight in the British GAA calendar. The game takes place this coming Sunday in Manchester. The only reference to the game is where it is included in the list of fixtures.
In recent years I have felt that the Irish Post has an affinity with rugby that doesn't come across in its reporting of Gaelic games.

ballagoballa (UK) - Posts: 49 - 10/11/2016 23:29:08    1933485

i dont know if anybody noticed but the rugby team received a documentary for their win over south africa over the summer...and people say rte arent biased towards rugby...

alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 11/11/2016 02:31:57    1933495

cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5297 - 11/11/2016 09:34:23    1933511

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 11/11/2016 10:14:21    1933519