Re: From The Scotsman
- From: The Green Phantom <ask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:18:22 +0000
Spizz wrote:
"The Green Phantom" <ask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:43b7d2d0$0$63099$ed2e19e4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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It's funny, but coming from central Scotland, rugby was just not an option as a lad. It was and still is football* or nothing. We had no rugby at school and would occasionally watch only the annual Scotland v England game just because it was a game, any sport would have done, against England.
This is one of the major points isn't it?
In the first instance there has been much damage done to all sport in the UK one way and another over the last thirty years. It ranges from teachers no longer being prepared to work unpaid overtime to supervise or develop a social activity (and why should they really?)
A major outcry against a whole activity when a fatal accident occurs, instaed of just blaming the cretins concerned.
Cost of insurance arising out of legislation arising out of deaths and injuries arising out of cretinism in previous paragraph.
SOME pc crap in some areas where competitive sports have been abandoned owing to the need to preserve the dignity of all children so that they will be protected from the concept that there are no losers in life (until they ask for a first date or try and get a job - or laid).
Sale of school playing fields.
Playstations, left wing politicians, right wing politicians and the pope.
The point is you have to catch them somewhere.
You're also right about the game of choice. Rugby is widely perceived in Scotland as a public school game. If I have a criticism of Scotland outside of the weather then it's the level of inverted snobbery that still exists.
But I love watching the Super 12 and the Currie Cup, I would watch this before almost any football game. I go to Newlands occasionally (I'm about a 5 hour round trip away) and the atmosphere is wonderful. Well worth the journey. I'm off course Scottish but know more about the Boks than the Jocks due to my location but my allegiances are most definitely with Scotland. I just wish I could turn back time and have discovered rugby when I was a nipper. But for some reason it just doesn't go down well in the secondary schools. To us it was a toffs game played in the posh Edinburgh schools and by a few farmers in the Borders. How I wish I could go back and persuade a few people otherwise. But it would take something radical because football is king and unless Scotland can lift the next RWC, it's going to stay that way.
We had an event a couple of weeks back where some of Glasgow Hawks went coaching at a school, they try and do this regularly. It's not enough though.
Even promoting touch rugby as a fun activity would be something.
regards
The Green Phantom .
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