Oldschoolsocks wrote:
However, I cannot help but feel that with respect to the Boss or Toss thread you are missing one of the integral elements of our sport - the wicked sense of humour and sense of fun players have in teasing each other, if ever you've attended a dinner and speech led by a real rugby bloke you'll hear the most profound mocking, wicked wind ups, tales of escapades and kangaroo courts, forwards calling backs girls, backs shopping with the other girls.
This is as much a part of our game as any mission statement agreed by committee in a unions HQ over cigars and scotch, and it is what I, for one, love to see reflected on ours, and other rugby forums.
So have your opinion on what belongs on this board, but please do not presume to tell me how to enjoy reading, analysing and replying to other posters this site.
With respect to the "Band of Brothers" and "Real Rugby Blokes" getting it, I know LOADS of real rugby blokes and not one of us get why Leinster should be a Michael's past pupils team - even the Michael's boys there - and guess how we came to that conclusion - because it's real rugby blokes who sit, stand and stagger at our matches and we talk to each other about real rugby in a suitably real manner.
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(1) As I said, the fun element is almost more important than the sport itself. Over a 40 year involvement in the game, 20 as a player through all age grades I have and will continue to fill my boots in every bit of fun I can garner.
(2) I have at no point told anyone to do or think anything. But I do advocate for the values to be upheld and that doesn't stop people having shed loads of fun without being harmful or OTT disrespectful as happened elsewhere here. Disrespect to nameless keyboard adversaries is one thing, but to retired greats of the game is, in my opinion, against the values and ethos of our sport and community (the true measure of which is evident in how the national and international rugby community is reacting to Axel's passing by showing respect for him and Munster). I will continue to call out whatever I see to be contrary to those values. People will agree or disagree.
(3) Neither did this St Michael's geezer come remotely close to saying
"Leinster should be a Michael's past pupils team" because it is such a ridiculous notion it couldn't even be conceived by an idiot...not even this one. You have either deliberately or innocently misconstrued my soft point which is, that having a group of people on a team who know and back each other's play through thick and thin should be a positive dynamic in a pro sport like rugby and that Kelleher's return would further bolster the unusual numbers in the Leinster squad from you know where. I did not say they should be given jobs for life or that Leo should seek to recuit and play 15 people from my alma mater. I would be of this same view were there to be a similar grouping from any other school or rugby club.
Think you've covered most things there.... except you didn't use Tapatalk
