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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    My OH just said "Look at the shirt pulling".
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Well .., that’s to be expected … they grew up watching blokes play football didn’t they? 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Do they still refer to it as 'handbags' when it's women playing, or is there gender reversal? I'd like to hear some commentators saying things like 'Don't worry, it's just a bit of willy waving'.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    In these days of being able to define your own gender the commentator might be right. :D
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    You only need to look at how rugby has changed since it went professional, gets more like football all the time.
    I was looking forward to a bit of female mud wrestling.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Why do these 'memes' spread across gender as well?
    In the past:
    Cantona started turning up his shirt collar - so that spread like wildfire.
    Beckham got tattoos - the world went tattoo mad.

    Now:
    For some reason now, players now 'tuck up' the legs on their shorts to make them tighter and shorter.
    It became an offence to take off your shirt in a celebration, but players still did it and got booked.

    How - why - are these in the women's game? - it isn't the money - is it just the human flocking instinct? A woman player even took her shirt off yesterday in celebration? What was all that about?

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Oh heck @Hostafan1, they  will not stop banging on for ages now. They are even playing that wretched "song" on R4 this morning,  is there no end to it. 😱 ? 
    AB Still learning

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    edited August 2022
    Got to make up for all those "Years of hurt" @Allotment Boy.
    All together now...

    https://youtu.be/RJqimlFcJsM
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    @punkdoc I can't agree about rugby becoming more like football.  Rugby players accept what the ref says, generally without obvious dissent, although they may question the parentage of the ref under their breath.  They don't roll on the ground as if they've been taken out by a sniper if they are so much as touched by an opponent.  One thing which is creeping in, and really do dislike, is trying to get opponents 'binned' or sent off for a tackle which goes slightly too high.  That happens mostly at the very top level, and I think the ones complaining at the ref should be the ones 'binned'.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    KT53 said:
    ... They don't roll on the ground as if they've been taken out by a sniper if they are so much as touched by an opponent.  ...'.
    Well no ... because physical contact is part of rugby ... it's almost the point of it ... whereas it's not part of football. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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