Oh wow, I'm surprised you can bear baseball more than football. I get bored at baseball somtimes, it's true. But Football...I can't stop watching (besides the mass amounts of commercials). It's such a warrior sport - put on your armor, line up, beat the **** outta eachother and outwhit the oppoenent, etc. such a good game...

it's funny how the phoenix captain is an Australian lol. Oh well, at least they're better than the knights were...but then again, how hard is that? :P

I think football is one of those sports i can watch highlights of but can't watch an entire game. Too much stopping and starting in the game. That's why i prefer rugby league and AFL over union and american football. It's continuous and (in the case of AFL), fast and entertaining. Soccer always wins over all the football codes though.

Rugby is a beast of a sport. Jesus christ, you can literally nail each other, like 6 at once and its allowed. You have a grudge against some guy, you play against his rugby team. Plus there is nothing more fun than handing someone off or dump tackling them. It's quality.

My god its been a while since I posted on here.

Rugby can be punishing, let me just say - if you're going to play it, make sure your heart is in it, if not, you'll get hurt and hurt quickly.

Woodt - I'm guessing you're not a forward? If you were, you wouldnt be naming handing someone off as one of the fun parts, I love to find some kid stuck the wrong side of the ball and give him imprints of my boots on his back, even more fun if hes trapped as he cant get away. They're trying to outlaw it now, but its still here at the moment.

Its different to football because you will make a lot more 1v1 tackles, but similar in the respect that territory and possession are everything (whereas say in Soccer, territory counts for very little). Any questions - just ask.

What position are you playing Merc?

I love rugby, i played it since 1996 upto around early 2006 and then i quit.

Main positions were wing and centre due to my unbelievable speed hehe

As i got older tho, i started filling out and was moved to second row sometimes which is 10x a harder job!

Im thinking of going back to rugby, i love it!

Rugby is the greatest thing to play, this past summer I played with the U18 and the teir 3 mens teams when I was only 16. THere was some scary hits but once you get hit you just want to keep playing more and more cuz you becaome numb to the pain and want to dish your anger on some unfortunate guys a$$.

If I were you I'd reconsider that attitude, that is the perfect way to get yourself hurt.

If you dont give 100% when tackling, hitting, mauling or rucking in rugby, you will get hurt.

Love rugby. Wouldn't mind playing it me self but like people say it is a bit mad the amount of contact and no protection.

Played Rugby right through high school (although Rowing was always my first sport) played Centre. Aside from one broken arm when I was 15 I didn't have any injury problems with it. I always considered American Football pretty wussy wearing all that armour :P

One advice I will give you though, and someone else has already said it, but play hard. If you're going to tackle, tackle hard. If you're going to take a hit up, hit it hard. Going in half-hearted is how you get hurt.

Let me guess, along with your sig you must be a small and scrawny cardio bunny right? There are different positions in rugby so the smaller and faster guys like Habana play on the wing (Habana can reportedly bench 350lbs BTW when not racing cheetahs) actually Lomu was 6 ft 5 inches and played on the wing so its crap saying if you are of a certain body set you can/cannot play rugby.

rugby is a brilliant sport as it is a mix between speed and sheer brutality. I broke my right colar-bone in a ruck, that ruined my season. Still great fun.

Luv rugby, but i've busted myself too many times playing it! It's a really challenging sport because you need Aerobic/Anaerobic fitness, strength, speed and agility. Plus position specific skills. It's a great game. The sport of Kings!

Union is a good sport, hard hitting and brutal, but i do prefer League though, but aye a fair portion of our league stars eventually travel over to Union, but sometimes they come back to their senses and head back to League.... Matt Rogers

I abserloutly love rugby
Im nearly 6ft but scrawny, and not perticually fast, but when i paly full back, nobody can touch me 1v1 weather im tackling or making a run, side steps and spins are the best. and tackling is easy if you go in uflly hearted, great sport.

I love how it doesn't matter how small you r u can still take down people as long as u wrap up. yes its harder for smaller people to take down muscle mainacs but its still possible.