TartanTon

Why query with me, wasn't i who posted it. either way, Scottish rugby is S***.

Is that accurate? If so it tells me all i need to know about this 'inclusive' sport.

I played it, i watched it. I was thoroughly interested. now, i couldn't give a sh*t about it. successful Autumn international,, yippee, but if ok i'll refer you back to the 5/6 nations to gauge Scotlands 'success'. As for being robbed, again, i don't care, i smirked when that happened. Me bad. 7th in the world of rugby is like being quarter finalists in the Irn Bru cup. In other words the big boys don't notice. Scotland could be so much better to.

It is where i live, in a fairly large swathe of the west coast, so my assertion is not wrong. 30 minute drives are no good if you don't drive either. Maybe i just live in a forgotten town eh? (and yes, the local club does do mini rugby but i do not know a single person with a child attending, maybe i live in among the forgotten people) Successful national team? When was the last time they had a decent 6 nations? I think the last time they won it was 99 (5 nations), last grand slam is so long ago its virtually grainy footage (90). (One game v Australia in the WC doesn't state we have a good national team). In the past 4 years we have collected the wooden spoon twice and very nearly collected another 2 times. Excellent progress. In fact, looking at it, its following the same pattern of our football. ie, *****. and if we have huge numbers of kids involved, as we have in football, then something is seriously wrong as internationally we (both) are going backwards. I'm also scratching the head a little at the assumption tennis//rugby are streets ahead in facilities considering the massive investment in football and all round sports facilities. Maybe though catering more for the elite is actually detrimental (when we are a nation woefully lacking in top talent across the sports, with one obvious exclusion who learned his trade in Spain and England)

Or like a bunch of fitba fans who are concerned with what we see. Regardless if anyone is going or not or supports a boycott or not they are allowed to express their opinion.

Yes. Your house.

I disagree. If every school had a rugby team and only 10% now have rugby teams then the logical conclusion is that less kids play rugby now than they did three decades ago. Excellent news. tbh, i am not an advocate of the game in this country so whether a bundle of kids in a population of thousands is playing the game or not it still a selective sport. How much does it costs kids to attend? How many of the kids who have hee haw are involved? (and i will give plaudits if they allow disadvantaged kids free access to the game) As for my own personal experiences is that not relevant? Out of around 20 of us who played the game in school, none of us continued to participate. Yes, we may even have been the worst team in the world, but the point is valid, every one of us was lost to the game because after the school ceased its rugby team the alternative was simply not open to us. (and yes, thats from personal experience). Since then the game has died on its erse around these parts. I think even the academy may have stopped playing the game. It is whether people like it or not seen as a middle to upper class sport in large swathes of Scotland. (it should not be, sport should have no social barriers) I'll admit over the years i've went from an avid rugby fan to one who is completely disinterested in the sport to the point i really could not care less about it or the national team.

if one sport is more popular and accessible than the other how can they be proportionally the same? The issue of bone idle children has nothing to do with this as that affects every sport in just about every country. Rugby is simply not as accessible to many in Scotland as it should and could be and that is down to years of having no interest in doing anything about it. Yes, now they have mini rugby dotted around. too little too late. Rugby in Scotland is viewed by many in other countries as verging on an upper class exclusive sport (i don't fully agree but i cannot deny its packed full of people from certain sections of our society).

And how many people are involved in rugby. How many facilities do they have? Its minimal. As i detailed when i was in school every school had a team, many schools had pitches. now thats been reduced to bit part rugby set ups. Even my dung heap of a town has an affluent area and its virtually only that area that anyone who plays rugby now comes from. The club itself is of that ilk also. It has built itself to be a selective sport. I neither wtach it now nor do i even support the so called national team.

Ah, so i deduce a skunk.

Just about aye.

You have made my case. Helensburgh and Ayr. Both have areas of higher affluence than around most parts of the west.

Dunno, but we could challenge them. Question is, can we do the Conga? The last time i seen that at a Scotland game people were stood on where they fell.

you mean to say we are no longer allowed to celebrate a humping?

Look, we are above The Congo. We can still dance ffs.

Try the west coast., We have one Rugby club (exclusive and not at all welcoming to riff raff) and one public rugby park, which is usually covered in dug sh*t for a population of nearly 100k When i was a lad every school in the area had a Rugby team and a fair few had a rugby pitch to play on. Not one has either of them now. (yes, the local club has a mini rugby team but the players nearly all come from the same area and attend the same school) Where as when i was in school we had 20 lads playing Rugby weekly now we have virtually none. I have family abroad who have ran Rugby teams for youths for 40 years (at a high level, some of them have made it all the way into the national team) but they are taken aback by the sheer lack of interest in promoting rugby around the west. They took a team a tour over here years ago and i'm afraid to say many clubs snubbed them out of sheer snobbery. (I know not all clubs are like that and up to a couple of years ago i went to spectate at Rugby) Each to their own. My opinion is the SRU are an aloof organisation.

Its open, troll away.

A great game but sadly not a sport easy accessible to all in Scotland despite rhetoric to the contrary.

apologies

hahaha. how do you know he's not already.

cheers folks. mind ask santa for new happy clapping hands for xmas when it comes.

not intended to rub it in tbh. quite the opposite.

vague

Totally agree with that, she seemed to personally remember everyone.

To be honest i can't mind as i never got a ticket. Maybe thats the reason why it seems to be more hit and miss though.