Unpopular Opinions - OP Updated with Threadban List 4/5/21

southstar

[Deleted User] wrote: »

He was born in manukau,south auckland to samoan parents


And the rugby crowd sneer at the fai for picking players with irish parents or heritage?

They don't ..but you'll keep telling yourself otherwise

dwayneshintzy

Hairy Japanese BASTARDS!, you seem absolutely obsessed with teachers and their pay.

The_Kew_Tour

Iscreamkone wrote: »

I have to listen to rugby types who say that soccer players are diving and cheating and fixing their hair. And that rugby is more manly (whatever that means).


My unpopular opinion is that rugby players cheat as much as any other sportsmen (maybe more) and that rugby is the least skilful of the main field sports.

And where was all the rugby players giving money away to charity and helping the poor when needed?

Footballers in this country helped out the less privilege players and in Englsnd helped the starving and less well off

The rugby boys showed their through colours and were missing.

I hope next time the rugby lads try show how great they are this will be remembered

castletownman

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

And where was all the rugby players giving money away to charity and helping the poor when needed?

Footballers in this country helped out the less privilege players and in Englsnd helped the starving and less well off

The rugby boys showed their through colours and were missing.

I hope next time the rugby lads try show how great they are this will be remembered

They are only community based to a select few in said community.

The_Kew_Tour

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

And where was all the rugby players giving money away to charity and helping the poor when needed?

Footballers in this country helped out the less privilege players and in Englsnd helped the starving and less well off

The rugby boys showed their through colours and were missing.

I hope next time the rugby lads try show how great they are this will be remembered

Dont expect any qs to be asked at press conferences anyway

IRFU will just hunt/ban any critical journalism from its press conferences (may explain the near zero coverage for the munster failed drug test!!)

https://www.balls.ie/amp/rugby/irish-rugby-and-the-media-383259?__twitter_impression=true

Randy Archer

Doping is rampant in rugby , even at schools rugby in Ireland

A lot of parents are setting their kids up for disappointment at a young age by getting them involved in rugby.

They might be pretty good - maybe even the best player on the team; granted it's not a game that requires much skill - up to the age of 12-14.

Then they turn 14/15 and it's "hard luck kid, you're not big enough".

Skyfloater

Deleted User wrote: »

A lot of parents are setting their kids up for disappointment at a young age by getting them involved in rugby.

They might be pretty good - maybe even the best player on the team; granted it's not a game that requires much skill - up to the age of 12-14.

Then they turn 14/15 and it's "hard luck kid, you're not big enough".

Don't all sports do that. Develop an interest first, then weed out the weaker ones.

Feisar

Skyfloater wrote: »

Don't all sports do that. Develop an interest first, then weed out the weaker ones.

There’s always Junior B!

Skyfloater

Skyfloater wrote: »

Don't all sports do that. Develop an interest first, then weed out the weaker ones.

You're probably right.

Seems a lot more prevalent in Rugby though.

"Gooch" was hardly a beast, and what's Messi - 5-6'?

Peter Stringer I believe was considered small - wasn't he 5-9'?

Better Than Christ

Deleted User wrote: »

A lot of parents are setting their kids up for disappointment at a young age by getting them involved in rugby.

I'd be more worried about the fact that they're setting them up to be the kind of people who get involved in rugby.

ohnonotgmail

Deleted User wrote: »

You're probably right.

Seems a lot more prevalent in Rugby though.

"Gooch" was hardly a beast, and what's Messi - 5-6'?

Peter Stringer I believe was considered small - wasn't he 5-9'?

5' 7". the same as messi. Shane williams was the same height and seemed to do pretty well at elite level.

Hairy Japanese BASTARDS!

One off housing is horrid and should be banned. The countryside is ruined.

Unless you provide an eircode, how exactly do you direct and ambulance or Garda or fireman to your house?

cms88

dwayneshintzy wrote: »

Hairy Japanese BASTARDS!, you seem absolutely obsessed with teachers and their pay.

What's wrong with wanting to hold someone to account for their pay?

Quazzie

Hairy Japanese BASTARDS! wrote: »

One off housing is horrid and should be banned. The countryside is ruined.

Unless you provide an eircode, how exactly do you direct and ambulance or Garda or fireman to your house?

You couldn't pay me enough to live in a city.

It's not 1 off housing that is the problem, it is inconsistent planning guidelines, and granting of houses not appropriate to the area.

walshb

Iscreamkone wrote: »

I have to listen to rugby types who say that soccer players are diving and cheating and fixing their hair. And that rugby is more manly (whatever that means).


My unpopular opinion is that rugby players cheat as much as any other sportsmen (maybe more) and that rugby is the least skilful of the main field sports.

Yep. Another crock of sh1t myth.

Rugby has every bit as much cheating and thuggery and anything else as soccer and any other team sport...

"Rugby is a thugs game played by gentlemen.........."......yeh, with its fair share of thugs as well...

Gaelic football is no different. What is with all the OTT aggro and combativeness? Play the fooking game, fair and firm.....

That thuggish shouldering and pushing and digging and all that threatening nonsense.....

ohnonotgmail

walshb wrote: »

Yep. Another crock of sh1t myth.

Rugby has every bit as much cheating and thuggery and anything else as soccer and any other team sport...

"Rugby is a thugs game played by gentlemen.........."......yeh, with its fair share of thugs as well...

Gaelic football is no different. What is with all the OTT aggro and combativeness? Play the fooking game, fair and firm.....

That thuggish shouldering and pushing and digging and all that threatening nonsense.....

bit of a difference between that kind of thing and rolling around on the ground holding your face when you haven't been touched.

walshb

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

bit of a difference between that kind of thing and rolling around on the ground holding your face when you haven't been touched.

That seems more relevant to soccer alright..

Cheating is not just rolling on the ground feigning injury.

ohnonotgmail

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

bit of a difference between that kind of thing and rolling around on the ground holding your face when you haven't been touched.

Didnt rugby players get caught cheating with fake blood or something like that a few years ago?

ohnonotgmail

Deleted User wrote: »

Didnt rugby players get caught cheating with fake blood or something like that a few years ago?

they did. one incident. and severe punishments were handed down. no punishments for faking injuries in football.

gormdubhgorm

Ireland should join the Commonwealth and have a United Ireland
1916 was not heroic/needed but just a precursor to the Irish soccer - 'moral victory'
This really means they did well not to get annihilated, and played for draw the next big match. A point at home.

partyguinness

partyguinness wrote: »

Hey...this is not a popularity contest.

Not every sick and eldely person will get it or die- it aint a given. But why should the rest of us have to put our lives on hold indefinitely. The plague died out, the Spanish flu died out.

I am very much in the survival of the fittest camp I'm afraid.

Really? The Spanish Flu affected half a billion people at a time when the world's population was under 2 billion, killing 50 million of them. The Plague wiped out 80% plus of some cities.

They didn't die out, they ran out of hosts to carry them. There is a difference.

Unpopular opinion: Paper straws are a load of me bollocks and I'd gladly go back to plastic ones.

Gregor Samsa

Deleted User wrote: »

Unpopular opinion: Paper straws are a load of me bollocks and I'd gladly go back to plastic ones.

They are a load of me bollix. Try slurping a McDonalds milkshake though one, and you end up picking bits of paper out of your mouth and trying to seperate the shredded soggy straw by the time you're a third of the way down. I'm considering investing in my own reusable plastic one, just for the rare occasions that I have a shake in there - like the way pretentious people bring their own chopsticks to Chinese restaurants, but for a sensible, practical reason, not because I'm a dickhead.

One thing that I can't understand, though is metal straws. The idea just horrifies me. I just get this creepy feeling that someone would slap me hard on the back of my head, and the straw would ram though the roof of my mouth and into the base of my skull, leaking blood, bone and brain all over my fries.

ohnonotgmail

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

they did. one incident. and severe punishments were handed down. no punishments for faking injuries in football.

Indeed.... was it the same players/team that repeatedly in trouble for eye gouging??

(Admittedely i may have details mixed up,and must do some more research upon this issue)

walshb

Mental Health is a fooking con job these days! Completely and utterly diluted to the point where if you aren’t feeling depressed, then you must be depressed!!!

Feeling good and happy now is the new stigma!!

PTH2009

Im not a fan of the Welsh Accent for some reason feel like they love the sound of there own voices and there the best singers in the world.

walshb

PTH2009 wrote: »

Im not a fan of the Welsh Accent for some reason feel like they love the sound of there own voices and there the best singers in the world.

Well, if that Katherine Jenkins is anything to go by, yes indeed...

Absolute soulless voice.......

PTH2009

walshb wrote: »

Well, if that Katherine Jenkins is anything to go by, yes indeed...

Absolute soulless voice.......

na she will get a pass from me

More or so the annoying rugby oafs who come over here. 9/10 there grand but suppose like all nationalities there's always some bad egg's

PTH2009

PTH2009 wrote: »

More or so the annoying rugby oafs who come over here. 9/10 there grand but suppose like all nationalities there's always some bad egg's

Their a bunch of ****......shushing people in pubs for the "kicker".....as if people in a pub in dunmore gonna be heard either way above in dublin

PTH2009

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Their a bunch of ****......shushing people in pubs for the "kicker".....as if people in a pub in dunmore gonna be heard either way above in dublin

Kickers in Rugby have great telekinesis

Even a little noise in a pub in the backarse of Leitrim could put them off ha