Rugby is so stupid.

I just went to the first rugby practice, I've never played before and had no idea how it works, so I was walking in pretty green, and the mechanics are so stupid.

You can only pass to a player if they are behind you going toward your endzone, that's right. It is completely counter-intuitive to the way most sports games work.

You can't block anyone in order to help your teammate get across the field, that results in a penalty. You can't try and get the ball during a tackle unless its not under the teammates legs. The game is more about following dumb rules that make no sense than it is about scoring, it's so stupid.

To me, a sport or a game has to have rules that make sense and make the game better, not worse. I didn't really like it at all and will probably never play the game again.

Have you played rugby? Have you watched it? What do you think of it?

i love rugby didn't you have another thread saying you like polo?? that's worse than rugby

I don't hate it, I just don't understand it

I think you'll like it more once you get used to it.Parandrus

I don't like things that don't follow good logic and make sense. It's almost like the game wants its players to be worse at the game than better.

Soccer, basketball, and football are so much more fun. I didn't have fun. I would rather spend 10 hours kicking a soccer ball into a net than practicing a rugby drill.

It's like some people created the game just to be nonconformist.

i love rugby didn't you have another thread saying you like polo?? that's worse than rugby

XD4NTESINF3RNOX

It was a joke thread about yak polo, I've never played polo.

[QUOTE="Parandrus"]I think you'll like it more once you get used to it.avatar_genius

I don't like things that don't follow good logic and make sense. It's almost like the game wants its players to be worse at the game than better.

Soccer, basketball, and football are so much more fun. I didn't have fun. I would rather spend 10 hours kicking a soccer ball into a net than practicing a rugby drill.

It's like some people created the game just to be nonconformist.

Rugby is great. If all sports had different rules then there wouldn't be many different sports. Don't hate the game dude, hate the player. If you don't understand or can't play than that doesn't mean the sport sucks. xTheExploited

The game isn't "badass" at all. They say it's more violent than football, but probably only because of the lack of padding, which doesn't make it inherently more violent.

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[QUOTE="Parandrus"]I think you'll like it more once you get used to it.Parandrus

I don't like things that don't follow good logic and make sense. It's almost like the game wants its players to be worse at the game than better.

Soccer, basketball, and football are so much more fun. I didn't have fun. I would rather spend 10 hours kicking a soccer ball into a net than practicing a rugby drill.

It's like some people created the game just to be nonconformist.

I don't want to play a game with mechanics I find "off." It just doesn't sit with me.

[QUOTE="Parandrus"][QUOTE="avatar_genius"]

I don't like things that don't follow good logic and make sense. It's almost like the game wants its players to be worse at the game than better.

Soccer, basketball, and football are so much more fun. I didn't have fun. I would rather spend 10 hours kicking a soccer ball into a net than practicing a rugby drill.

It's like some people created the game just to be nonconformist.

avatar_genius

I don't want to play a game with mechanics I find "off." It just doesn't sit with me.

then don't play it and quit complaining about it XD4NTESINF3RNOX

I'll vent my justified opinion ona truly stupid game if I damn well please, homey.

Besides, I quit halfway through the first practice. Not really playing the game with those mechanics again.

Go have fun with your game that really doesn't make any sense, I'll play soccer or football, cause they actually follow logic.

[QUOTE="xTheExploited"]Rugby is great. If all sports had different rules then there wouldn't be many different sports. Don't hate the game dude, hate the player. If you don't understand or can't play than that doesn't mean the sport sucks. avatar_genius

The game isn't "badass" at all. They say it's more violent than football, but probably only because of the lack of padding, which doesn't make it inherently more violent.

[QUOTE="XD4NTESINF3RNOX"]then don't play it and quit complaining about it avatar_genius

I'll vent my justified opinion ona truly stupid game if I damn well please, homey.

[QUOTE="avatar_genius"]

[QUOTE="Parandrus"] Everybody I've known who played Rugby loves it. I've never met someone who has played and didn't like it. For that reason I think you'll eventually like it more. You just have to give it a chance.Parandrus

I don't want to play a game with mechanics I find "off." It just doesn't sit with me.

I appreciate your sentiment, dude. And if I truly miss out on something that's my problem, I just really didn't like it at all and didn't have fun.

[QUOTE="XD4NTESINF3RNOX"]then don't play it and quit complaining about it avatar_genius

I'll vent my justified opinion ona truly stupid game if I damn well please, homey.

Besides, I quit halfway through the first practice. Not really playing the game with those mechanics again.

Go have fun with your game that really doesn't make any sense, I'll play soccer or football, cause they actually follow logic.

[QUOTE="avatar_genius"]

[QUOTE="XD4NTESINF3RNOX"]then don't play it and quit complaining about it super_mario_128

I'll vent my justified opinion ona truly stupid game if I damn well please, homey.

Rules that don't make sense turn me off really fast.

[QUOTE="avatar_genius"]

[QUOTE="XD4NTESINF3RNOX"]then don't play it and quit complaining about it XD4NTESINF3RNOX

I'll vent my justified opinion ona truly stupid game if I damn well please, homey.

Besides, I quit halfway through the first practice. Not really playing the game with those mechanics again.

Go have fun with your game that really doesn't make any sense, I'll play soccer or football, cause they actually follow logic.

Yeah, I'm American too hotstuff. There's plenty of things I don't need to give a chance because I have good judgement as to whether something deserves a chance or not.

INFADEL!

Seriously, all sports have seemingly stupid and arbitrary rules if you don't know anything about them (anything to do with dribbling in basketball, strict hand-ball rules in soccer, downs in football etc.), and you've been to a grand total of one practice. Watch some youtube videos and track down a copy of Rugby for Dummies if you want to learn the sport.

[QUOTE="super_mario_128"][QUOTE="avatar_genius"]

I'll vent my justified opinion ona truly stupid game if I damn well please, homey.

avatar_genius

Rules that don't make sense turn me off really fast.

http://australia.jrn.msu.edu/2003/AUsports/Rugbyrules.html how hard is it to use google and look up the rules before you went?

[QUOTE="super_mario_128"][QUOTE="avatar_genius"]

I'll vent my justified opinion ona truly stupid game if I damn well please, homey.

Rules that don't make sense turn me off really fast.

Why would you ever think it's stupid?

[QUOTE="avatar_genius"]

[QUOTE="super_mario_128"] Kind of hard to form an opinion on a sport when you haven't even played a match of it. XD4NTESINF3RNOX

Rules that don't make sense turn me off really fast.

http://australia.jrn.msu.edu/2003/AUsports/Rugbyrules.html how hard is it to use google and look up the rules before you went?

You sound angry.

Is this game even worth defending so zealously?

[QUOTE="XD4NTESINF3RNOX"]

[QUOTE="avatar_genius"]

Rules that don't make sense turn me off really fast.

avatar_genius

http://australia.jrn.msu.edu/2003/AUsports/Rugbyrules.html how hard is it to use google and look up the rules before you went?

You sound angry.

Is this game even worth defending so zealously?

[QUOTE="avatar_genius"]

[QUOTE="XD4NTESINF3RNOX"]

http://australia.jrn.msu.edu/2003/AUsports/Rugbyrules.html how hard is it to use google and look up the rules before you went?

XD4NTESINF3RNOX

You sound angry.

Is this game even worth defending so zealously?

The guy was explaining all these rules to me and I was thinking "wtf?"

Games/sports should be simple, not have weird rules for the sake of having weird rules.

Gimmick. That's the word I was looking for.

The guy was explaining all these rules to me and I was thinking "wtf?"

Games/sports should be simple, not have weird rules for the sake of having weird rules.

Gimmick. That's the word I was looking for.

I just went to the first rugby practice, I've never played before and had no idea how it works, so I was walking in pretty green, and the mechanics are so stupid.

You can only pass to a player if they are behind you going toward your endzone, that's right. It is completely counter-intuitive to the way most sports games work.

You can't block anyone in order to help your teammate get across the field, that results in a penalty. You can't try and get the ball during a tackle unless its not under the teammates legs. The game is more about following dumb rules that make no sense than it is about scoring, it's so stupid.

To me, a sport or a game has to have rules that make sense and make the game better, not worse. I didn't really like it at all and will probably never play the game again.

Have you played rugby? Have you watched it? What do you think of it?

avatar_genius

i dont know much about rugby...but you say blocking/screens are penalties? thats kind of lamekidcool189

That's what I thought. Most other sports, hockey, football, soccer, basketball, etc, blocking is a very effective technique, and in rugby, it's not allowed, like wtf?

I didn't expect the game to have weird dumb rules like that. I like using my creativity more than just following rules that don't make sense.

The game is seriously one big gimmick. There are better sports to play.

You have to understand it, you clearly don't.

It's like someone who has always played rugby saying, "so I tried american football, it's so stupid, if you get taken down play stops for like 5 minutes, the full team has to switch all over you have to wear stupid padding and a helmet"

If you don't like it don't play, just beacuse you don't understand does not make it stupid. Not many sports are stupid, I do not fully understand American football or Hockey, so therfore I do not watch it, and because I have not taken the time to understand it does not make it stupid, otherwise there wouldn't be millions of people linked to all these sports.

You have to understand it, you clearly don't.

It's like someone who has always played rugby saying, "so I tried american football, it's so stupid, if you get taken down play stops for like 5 minutes, the full team has to switch all over you have to wear stupid padding and a helmet"

If you don't like it don't play, just beacuse you don't understand does not make it stupid. Not many sports are stupid, I do not fully understand American football or Hockey, so therfore I do not watch it, and because I have not taken the time to understand it does not make it stupid, otherwise there wouldn't be millions of people linked to all these sports.

Carl_W21

The point of american football and hockey is to get the small object (ball/puck) to the other side, and in rugby that you can't pass forward makes that really dumb.

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You have to understand it, you clearly don't.

It's like someone who has always played rugby saying, "so I tried american football, it's so stupid, if you get taken down play stops for like 5 minutes, the full team has to switch all over you have to wear stupid padding and a helmet"

If you don't like it don't play, just beacuse you don't understand does not make it stupid. Not many sports are stupid, I do not fully understand American football or Hockey, so therfore I do not watch it, and because I have not taken the time to understand it does not make it stupid, otherwise there wouldn't be millions of people linked to all these sports.

avatar_genius

The point of american football and hockey is to get the small object (ball/puck) to the other side, and in rugby that you can't pass forward makes that really dumb.

It would be to easy to score if you could pass forward !

Eh, I found rugby to be fine, didn't like it as much as american football but I did enjoy playing every now and then. Two very different sports that's for sure.

It's a very restrictive game.

Most of the rules are just silly.

What's the purpose of lifting a guy off the ground to catch a throw-in from the side? Why not just like a throw-in like soccer? There's no purpose.

Also, staying flat with the rest of the line is pretty annoying.

It's perhaps one of the worst sports I've played.

It's the best sport in the world, and far outdates most popular sports. You simply need to get a grasp of the rules, as per most violent, that's likely, but it's more about strategy than impact. Nothing is more beautiful then slamming the pack up the field and finally putting in a try.

Why not just like a throw-in like soccer? There's no purpose.JebranRush

Had a friend try to teach that to us once.....we didn't get it. Perhaps the teaching was off. Though it does look interesting....LJS9502_basic

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]Had a friend try to teach that to us once.....we didn't get it. Perhaps the teaching was off. Though it does look interesting....Andrew_Xavier

[QUOTE="Andrew_Xavier"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]Had a friend try to teach that to us once.....we didn't get it. Perhaps the teaching was off. Though it does look interesting....LJS9502_basic