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Post by blindness on Oct 6, 2020 23:05:00 GMT -8
than football or basketball this year. They're both crazy fun. Having a ball here.
I hear that the Lakers are about to win the bubble season. It just doesn't feel real. All sports this season will have an asterisk. I'm finding it hard to invest emotionally in any. Maybe once the Ucla games start... Who knows?
Aussie football is awesome. And I'm loving rugby, both union and league style.
Little things that can make your day when the world has gone to shits...
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Post by Floppy Johnson on Oct 7, 2020 6:04:02 GMT -8
Wife and I used to watch some Aussie Rules Football. We loved that motion that the ref does, I think when someone scores. That arm wind up thing, where he ends up pointing. Whenever one of us thinks of something that the other thinks "of course!, why didn't I think of that!?", the other does that motion. It makes us laugh.
I'm sure my wife liked the dudes in the shorty shorts, too.
For a while there, I was really enjoying watching international 7's rugby competitions. It's a fast moving, entertaining sport. I think there are tons of NCAA football players that, once they graduate, could take a year of training and be awesome 7's players.
Perry Baker is one of the best players in the world, and the guy played D2 football. He's really fast and has some silky moves, but there are a ton of receivers that hang up their cleats every year that are really fast and have silky moves. The guy was still learning the game in 2016 and only got spot duty because he was terrible on defense. Then he was world player of the year 2 years in a row.
There's got to be tons of Perry Bakers out there.
I don't know squat about full sided rugby. I don't know the difference between league and union. But, I'm guessing that there are a lot of NCAA football players that could make a living at it, if they trained up for a couple of years.
Last comment, when I was watching 7's, I did tune into a couple of full sided matches. It looked a lot more exciting than back in the day, when it seemed like it was one game-length scrum with a couple of throw ins. I think they've changed the rules some?
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Post by blindness on Oct 7, 2020 22:22:32 GMT -8
I watched the tail end of the world cup rugby in the summer and really got caught up in it. Now I know that was union rugby. Here's what I've been able to figure out.
Union: looks likw a team gets to keep the ball as long as they can. If a player is tackled and they're down they just release the bal to a teammate and there's no pause. If the ball goes out bounds they do that weird throw in thing with a player being lifted to catch the ball. This one has a lot of scrums where the players huddle and lock against one another. A try is 5 points and it is said to be a strategic game.
League: a team gets to go old on to the ball for 5 or 6 tackles. I'm not sure. But after that the ball needs to be punted. When a player is tackled. The play pauses. The player gets up and rolls the ball back to another player with the bottom of their feet. It does not have that throw in thing. Scrums are rare and each try is 4 points. It's suad to be an endurance game. It move smch faster, I can tell you that.
Apoatently union has 15 players and league, 13. İ haven't counted them. Still figuring it out.
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Post by Floppy Johnson on Oct 8, 2020 10:53:07 GMT -8
I watched the tail end of the world cup rugby in the summer and really got caught up in it. Now I know that was union rugby. Here's what I've been able to figure out. Union: looks likw a team gets to keep the ball as long as they can. If a player is tackled and they're down they just release the bal to a teammate and there's no pause. If the ball goes out bounds they do that weird throw in thing with a player being lifted to catch the ball. This one has a lot of scrums where the players huddle and lock against one another. A try is 5 points and it is said to be a strategic game. League: a team gets to go old on to the ball for 5 or 6 tackles. I'm not sure. But after that the ball needs to be punted. When a player is tackled. The play pauses. The player gets up and rolls the ball back to another player with the bottom of their feet. It does not have that throw in thing. Scrums are rare and each try is 4 points. It's suad to be an endurance game. It move smch faster, I can tell you that. Apoatently union has 15 players and league, 13. İ haven't counted them. Still figuring it out. Thank you. Do you like watching Union? |
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Post by blindness on Oct 8, 2020 15:57:59 GMT -8
I watched the tail end of the world cup rugby in the summer and really got caught up in it. Now I know that was union rugby. Here's what I've been able to figure out. Union: looks likw a team gets to keep the ball as long as they can. If a player is tackled and they're down they just release the bal to a teammate and there's no pause. If the ball goes out bounds they do that weird throw in thing with a player being lifted to catch the ball. This one has a lot of scrums where the players huddle and lock against one another. A try is 5 points and it is said to be a strategic game. League: a team gets to go old on to the ball for 5 or 6 tackles. I'm not sure. But after that the ball needs to be punted. When a player is tackled. The play pauses. The player gets up and rolls the ball back to another player with the bottom of their feet. It does not have that throw in thing. Scrums are rare and each try is 4 points. It's suad to be an endurance game. It move smch faster, I can tell you that. Apoatently union has 15 players and league, 13. İ haven't counted them. Still figuring it out. Thank you. Do you like watching Union? It's clearly slower but I loved the world cup .... was it last year? I lost track. So yeah. |
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