No football, more futball!

Dull - Rugby union - a couple of seconds of action then a lineout then an infringement so penalty kicked to touch so another lineout out, scrum, scrum collapses another penalty, kicked to touch a couple of seconds of action, infringement at the ruck, another penalty, kicked to touch, lineout etc. Dull. 80 minute game with 33 minutes of ball in play time. Average of 37 lineouts, 15 scrums and 12 penalties per game (IRB figures). So very little actual action.

Well, apart from the fact that lineouts and scrums are action - highly technical, engaging and exciting bits of the sport which always has something happening - theres always a contest between the teams, theres always excitement - unlike football, which has long periods of tedium while the ball is being passed around the defenders and midfielders..... in fact, I find the most technical and strategically 'good' games deadly dull (cf Spain vs Italy in Euro 2008).

Sorry, OT rant, but as a(n ex-) forward I feel the need to defend my bit of the game....

On topic - the American sports fraternity seems to place a huge emphasis on the offensive rather than defensive play - so a game in which scoring is so rare needs to change a bit to grab the market - maybe bigger goals:D
 

oberdada

Gone Fishin'
Um, the 2010 FIFA World Cup is being held in South Africa, or are you from an ATL?
We'll see about that, if South Africa doesn't get the stadions ready in time, and/or there'll be another outbreak of violence, it isn't unlikely that it will take place somewhere else.

But I meant something else, I had never seen so many German flags as during the 2006 world cup, and I thought that was it, but during this Euro Cup it is nealy as bad. I predict it won't be different in 2010.

"54, 74, 90, 2010...":eek:
 
We'll see about that, if South Africa doesn't get the stadions ready in time, and/or there'll be another outbreak of violence, it isn't unlikely that it will take place somewhere else.

But I meant something else, I had never seen so many German flags as during the 2006 world cup, and I thought that was it, but during this Euro Cup it is nealy as bad. I predict it won't be different in 2010.

"54, 74, 90, 2010...":eek:

All the stadiums are on schedule, and even if there is another outbreak of violence (I'm assuming you are referring to the recent xenophobic violence), it will again be confined to "black" areas in the former townships, places where it is very unlikely that tourists and World Cup spectators will be.
 
Heh... I find it very amusing that out of all the threads I've started, this one has had just about the most traffic. :cool:
 
I just got my Sounders FC Season tickets... do you?

I'm considering getting season tickets as well, though it'll be tricky, since I won't be living in Seattle... I'll probably just go to the games I can go to individually. I'm excited!

American Football is really boring. There's just none of the excitement that's there with soccer. A near miss on a goal is exciting because it happens so quickly; with American Football they can spend whole minutes four yards from the goal.
 
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