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Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:11 pm
by globus
BillW wrote:globus wrote:Try and ensure your team have a decent pee before going out.
Nothing worse than an incident on the pitch or a disappearance of a team member at half time.
But don't go for a piss after rubbing liniment on.
Medical advice was a bit thin on the gound then.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:16 pm
by Shrekles
globus wrote:Try and ensure your team have a decent pee before going out.
Nothing worse than an incident on the pitch or a disappearance of a team member at half time.
Make sure said pee happens before rubbing metsol or deapheat on tight muscles. A rookie mistake only ever made once.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:21 pm
by globus
Have a look at the pitch in reasonable detail.
I did a kick off at Prittlewell in a pond.
You rehearse these things in detail, practise hard but not in a small swimming pool.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:25 pm
by globus
Watch where the groundstaff have plonked the posts in.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:27 pm
by globus
Put your toe in the bath before entering a boiling furnace.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:28 pm
by fonzeee
If you find yourself on the wrong side of a ruck, cover your head and balls and hope for the best, ‘cause you’re about to get the shit kicked out of you
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:29 pm
by globus
Find out details of your opponents' "partners" and ensure you use that information.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:34 pm
by globus
fonzeee wrote:If you find yourself on the wrong side of a ruck, cover your head and balls and hope for the best, ‘cause you’re about to get the shit kicked out of you
Horribly true.
When taking a kick a goal, do ignore the idiot who has blasted out of the line to stop you scoring.
I hit one straight in the bollocks of the sad creature who went down as though he'd been shot.
Off he went. never to return.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:37 pm
by CrazyIslander
Do squats every training.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:44 pm
by globus
CrazyIslander wrote:Do squats every training.
I did diddly squat. I formed the idea of just hanging around in a corner and working out how to beat the opposition.
This worked quite well until I went on a pitch and saw 15 blokes with an average weight about 50% than ours.
Early team talk was just wear them out and we'll skin them in the second half.
Bit of a victory for me that day.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:44 pm
by Mr. Very Popular
Don’t bring boots, someone else always has a spare pair for you.
Wintergreen and Poitin is the best rub known to man, unless it creeps onto your jocks.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:48 pm
by globus
Mr. Very Popular wrote:Don’t bring boots, someone else always has a spare pair for you.
Wintergreen and Poitin is the best rub known to man, unless it creeps onto your jocks.
That horse stuff gets everywhere.
My arse has been on fire due to an inappropriate application of said substance.
There should have been a whopping label on the can or whatever to warn of potential personal injury.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:51 pm
by CrazyIslander
globus wrote:CrazyIslander wrote:Do squats every training.
I did diddly squat. I formed the idea of just hanging around in a corner and working out how to beat the opposition.
This worked quite well until I went on a pitch and saw 15 blokes with an average weight about 50% than ours.
Early team talk was just wear them out and we'll skin them in the second half.
Bit of a victory for me that day.
I recommend any kid playing rugby to do 100+ as many days as possible. By the time they get to seniors they'll have legs the size of tree trunks.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:52 pm
by CrazyIslander
Mr. Very Popular wrote:Don’t bring boots, someone else always has a spare pair for you.
Wintergreen and Poitin is the best rub known to man, unless it creeps onto your jocks.
It's the other way round for spectators in the lower grades. If you're going to watch a game bring your boots.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:54 pm
by Joost
Formulating an unbreakable lineout code is easy - middle letter from: Big (Front) Red (Middle) Cock (Back)
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:57 pm
by CrazyIslander
Joost wrote:Formulating an unbreakable lineout code is easy - middle letter from: Big (Front) Red (Middle) Cock (Back)
Or just front middle back
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 11:06 pm
by globus
CrazyIslander wrote:Joost wrote:Formulating an unbreakable lineout code is easy - middle letter from: Big (Front) Red (Middle) Cock (Back)
Or just front middle back
That's a cracker. The day the call was "Menopause" had us completely gone.
I was given the task of re-writing our line-out codes and I went to Latin.
This bemused the forwards. So we went back to a simple code that basically was a kind of algorithm.
However the secret was where the number 9 held his shorts.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 11:29 pm
by jezzer
All backline move calls should sound like nicknames of WW2 pilots.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 11:33 pm
by Tez
Was quite enjoying this thread not one “ I” mentioned until he came along.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 11:39 pm
by happyhooker
Tez wrote:Was quite enjoying this thread not one “ I” mentioned until he came along.
I agree
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 11:40 pm
by happyhooker
BlackMac wrote:happyhooker wrote:On long road trips back from away games it is perfectly acceptable to play cocks out in the hostelries visited
On long road trips take enough players to allow for the inevitable arrests on the way.
On the way back ffs.
Even we weren't that reckless
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:26 am
by globus
Tez wrote:Was quite enjoying this thread not one “ I” mentioned until he came along.
It's called "been there done that, has the shirt and try not to be Chiselhead."
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:27 am
by globus
happyhooker wrote:Tez wrote:Was quite enjoying this thread not one “ I” mentioned until he came along.
I agree
You would. Try harder. Aye, aye.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:31 am
by eldanielfire
sorCrer wrote:eldanielfire wrote:-No left hand drinking
Buffalo? F'sakes.
That should be left hand drinking only
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:39 am
by globus
The best bit is to run up the rules and the fines for digressing.
Reckon I have a degree in that.
Got a lot of fines up to a wipeout at Hampden Park.
Just good fun.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 6:14 am
by Shrekles
globus wrote:CrazyIslander wrote:Joost wrote:Formulating an unbreakable lineout code is easy - middle letter from: Big (Front) Red (Middle) Cock (Back)
Or just front middle back
That's a cracker. The day the call was "Menopause" had us completely gone.
I was given the task of re-writing our line-out codes and I went to Latin.
This bemused the forwards. So we went back to a simple code that basically was a kind of algorithm.
However the secret was where the number 9 held his shorts.
Is if any self respecting forward would let you within a bulls roar of a line out call...
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 7:20 am
by BBB
CrazyIslander wrote:Joost wrote:Formulating an unbreakable lineout code is easy - middle letter from: Big (Front) Red (Middle) Cock (Back)
Or just front middle back
Too obvious.
Little (front) Brown (middle) Jug (back) was my school teams alternative call if our usual code got broken.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 8:16 am
by Joost
CrazyIslander wrote:Joost wrote:Formulating an unbreakable lineout code is easy - middle letter from: Big (Front) Red (Middle) Cock (Back)
Or just front middle back
You’d think, but the hooker will inevitably give the game away - remember ours yelling out ‘B-A-C’ and the opppo front jumper turning to me and saying ‘I wonder where that’s going!’
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 8:18 am
by Joost
Shrekles wrote:globus wrote:CrazyIslander wrote:Joost wrote:Formulating an unbreakable lineout code is easy - middle letter from: Big (Front) Red (Middle) Cock (Back)
Or just front middle back
That's a cracker. The day the call was "Menopause" had us completely gone.
I was given the task of re-writing our line-out codes and I went to Latin.
This bemused the forwards. So we went back to a simple code that basically was a kind of algorithm.
However the secret was where the number 9 held his shorts.
Is if any self respecting forward would let you within a bulls roar of a line out call...
I’d say that’s Globby’s most far-fetched story yet!
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:46 am
by Mullet 2
Let the other lads "lose" the ref.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 11:07 am
by Tez
globus wrote:Tez wrote:Was quite enjoying this thread not one “ I” mentioned until he came along.
It's called "been there done that, has the shirt and try not to be Chiselhead."
I think you’ll find most posters have “ been there”, the clue is in the yore in the title.
The one where “ watch where the opposition places the posts”, or words to that effect, intrigues me.
How does that work?
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 11:34 am
by The Man Without Fear
tc27 wrote:
There's always one player who trains every week and is always available but will never be good enough for more than 3rd XV rugby.
Conversely, there's always someone in the 3rds who would be a nailed on 1st team starter if only he could be arsed.
New to the game and not an obvious fit for any position? Out on the wing you go.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:30 pm
by Mr. Very Popular
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:38 pm
by globus
Tape everything that might come loose.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:40 pm
by globus
Lace your boots in the warmth of the changing room on the way out.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:42 pm
by globus
Speak to the captain of the opposition side about certain interpretation of the laws.
That throws them out a bit.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:43 pm
by globus
Arrange for your side to have decent sized oranges at half time.
The oppos get small mandarins.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:45 pm
by message #2527204
Funny I remember this as a headline in the Fiji Times once before an international fixture against a kiwi select team, naming one of the Fijian players.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:57 pm
by globus
Wave to the opposition at kick off.
Then switch kicks the other way.
Re: Accepted Rugby Wisdom From the Days of Yore
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:59 pm
by kiwigreg369
Oh how we laughed...
KG
