Why doesn't the world like rugby? Please like rugby.

>>75930192
Does anyone know why georgia has a rugby team?

>>75930192
Because the world is 90% poofter.

wtf I love Argentina now

>>75930216
Because they're not poofs.

Looks like its just poor countries that aren't members. Their is a direct correlation between quality of life and rugby prowess between countries.

>>75930216
The better question is why Uzbekistan has a team, nobody else in Central Asia does

>>75930192
>French Guiana has qualified
This cannot be right

>>75930192
Im pretty sure we have a team/federation, but nobody gives a shit about it and they don't have money for anything. Now and then some random Aussie comes and becomes the local Rugby god handling everything regarding the sport.

>>75930431
Then why is South Africa one of the greatest rugby nations?

>>75930957
Yeah, here it is. They are so in need of players that you can join any club as a player just by giving your name

https://federacionrugbycr.com/juega-rugby/

Weird, desu

>>75930192
used to watch rugby sevens all the time
one of the better foreign sporting events I've ever seen
that stuff was hype, man

>>75930852

This map will be counting as part of France, rather than a separate country.

I played rugby from grade 9 until i graduated for my schools team and for a regional team that I had to tryout for. Was good shit, wish it was more popular in Canada. I'll be putting my son into rugby as soon as i can

>>75930192
Redpill me on the Southern Hemisphere

>>75931000
Same reason Americuck does

>>75931000
>>75931958

Confirmed for me not being able to read.

>>75930192
Rules are too complex.
The game isnt fun to play, you dont have the ball often.
It's too violent and amateurs harm themselves too often.
Egg balls and rugby goals are somewhat rare, impeding the development of the game in the poorest countries.
And finally, as a parent, I don't mind seeing kids playing it and hurting their brains out, but I won't let my kids play it.

>>75930216
we had a sport that resembles rugby way before rugby was a thing

>Lelo or lelo burti (Georgian: ლელო ბურთი), literally a "field ball [playing]", is a Georgian folk sport, which is a full contact ball game, and very similar to rugby.[1] Within Georgian rugby union terminology, the word lelo is used to mean a try, and the popularity of rugby union in Georgia has also been attributed to it.[2] In 2014, lelo burti, along with khridoli, a traditional martial art, was inscribed by the government of Georgia as a "nonmaterial monument" of culture.[3]

>It appears in the 12th century Georgian epic poem The Knight in the Panther's Skin in which the characters play Lelo burti.

>>75930192
>colombia has a team
wew

I played a lot of sports and rugby is unironically one of the most fun things in the world.

its literally to intelligent for most sport fans

most 'people' in the gray countries can barely follow soccer

Are there any cute boys like Brady?

>>75932032

>its literally to intelligent for most sport fans
>it's
>too

Looks like you're most sports fans lad.

>>75930431
bro you know if that was true then our godland would be shit at rugby

there's a lot of kiwi in this thread
gotta be at lest 3
that's nearly the whole population of the south island

>>75931992
Yeah, we have only one pro guy playing in France
http://www.deportesrcn.com/mas-deportes/andres-zafra-es-el-primer-colombiano-en-el-top-14-del-rugby-en-francia-53967

>>75931984
Kids' rugby isn't actually very dangerous. It's better to learn to play as a child than it is when you're developed, because the hits are much harder and there are worse consequences for poor technique.

>>75930192
I find it to be very boring man

Rugby is boring.

AFL is shit too.

Why are our sports so bad?

>>75931000
it is mostly their whites playing rugby, and they are well off.
>>75930192
it is a sport for smart and muscular people. not many people fit that criteria

>>75930852
The French are weird and they consider all of their colonies to be part of France proper

So yeah, French Guiana haven't qualified - France have.

>>75931168
It's the hemisphere south of the equator.

HOLL UP HOLL UP

WEZ GOT A RUGBY TEAM?

>>75931984
Get a load of this absolute raging faggot

Thailand has a team. Intresting

>>75931168
Muslims and other africans don't know we exist so they don't come here.

>>75930192
It's getting there, mate. Give it a couple more decades

>>75931127
still is you twat

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most people are dumb and have short attention spans
rugby has relatively complex rules and is not very fluid
dumb people that can't concentrate like soccer because its easy to understand and the game never stops
soccer is way more accessible, as all you need is something you can kick

TLDR most people aren't muscular, intelligent, and elite enough to be worthy fans

>>75933237
We'll give mexico a couple of decades to get good at soccer too

>>75930192
The fans are cunts.

>>75933288
Who hurt you m8?

>rugby
>complex
it's literally just a bunch of fatties running into each other

>>75933293
Mean in England, dunno about you lot.

>>75933310
hitler
vegetarianism
teetotalism
holocaust
euthanasia
ethnic cleansing
lebensraum
white supremacy
eugenics

>>75933310
You mum must be the captain of Germany then innit

>>75933335
>>75933369
not an argument

>>75932067

It's a meme you dip

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>>75933333

>>75933333
Hello beautiful.

Big strong Argentinian reporting in.

>Have a rugby team in town
:D
>They are a literal fucking homosexual team
fuuuuuuggggggggD:D:D:D:D:DDD:

>>75933144

yeah and we've qualified for the past few World Cups.

>>75930192
a friend of mine has a cousin who's on the female rugby national team. i was not aware of such a team.

>>75933310
this is exactly what we think

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>>75930957
>>75931018
Nobody cares about it in Guatemala either and we always wipe the floor with you cunts

>>75930192
Rugby became a bit popular in portugal after our participation in the 2007 WC, but by the time the 2011 edition was held, its popularity faded away amongst barbosas

It's seen as a rich people's sport here and most teams are linked to universities rather than the popular football clubs. Benfica and Sporting have rugby teams though, but that still didn't help promoting the sport.

>>75936980
>he thinks I care enough to even react to our rugby team being shit
>he thinks I Costa Rican would care about anything related to Nicaragua even if that includes us

(((Our))) Baseball league and (((National))) team is made up by Nicaraguans, Amerifats, Dominicans and Colombians, nobody cares about those sports here at all.

>>75930192
>No Arabs
>No Africans
>No Indians
>No Asians except Japan, Thailand, Worst Korea, and Flipadelphia
>all the white countries

I think this patrician sport is for me.

>>75937667
What the fuck does nicaragua have to do with anything other than them being the only country in Central America without a rugby team?

>>75937722
Oh shit, sorry, we call everything between USA and us Nicaragua, your name made me post that. Sorry.

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>>75930192

mfw Burgers have more players than us or Wales or NZ

>>75932046
memekenzie?

>>75937830
>no Argentina

good.

>>75933369
you really sported that poofter kraut

Does Australia like football?

>>75930192
>tfw rugby is still an amateur sport here

this country sucks

>>75930192
Why would I like rugby?
It's like boring football
Our football

>>75937830
College rugby is a popular drinking club. Teams below college are almost unheard of.

Perhaps equally or more popular among women especially lesbians.

>>75933283
That reminded me when we blew your team like 9-4 with our H team

>>75939683
That was so weird
I actually though the team who was starting a guy who had been playing rec league soccer in Florida had a chance to win

it takes the worst aspects of soccer and combines it with the worst aspects of football

the concept is ok, but there's too many players not doing much and little scoring

sevens is more likely to take off outside conventional markets, can work a lot better with tv

>>75939751
Yeah and Arena football is better than NFL

>>75939782
Completely different

>>75939718
Canada takes the worst aspects of America and combines it with the worst aspects of France

>>75939802
better than the worst aspects of England combined with Ireland

i like hokkie

>>75941743
me 2

>>75939599
american football has around 11 minute of actual playtime. rugby has at least 70 minutes if you find kicks to be boring. the game is more fluid and intense as a tackle or an interception doesnt stop the game.

>why doesn't the world enjoy a bunch of fat islanders groping each other

Gee I wonder

>>75931991
>posts an informative reply
>gets no reply from the person asking for it

feel bad for you desu

>>75931168
The best hemisphere

In the last WC 4 from 4 semi finalists were from SH, and the WC was hosted in Europe

>>75947966
It was just a rethorical question, who cares about georgia kek

>>75947977
>the best hemisphere
>worst posters on /sp/ are literally argies, hues and australians

>>75947991
Canadians, Americans and Finns are the worst posters

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>>75939599
Depends on what you want, there are three types of rugby: union, league and sevens

Union and sevens are the same, and the most dynamic, they have the same rules. The only difference is in the amount of players, sevens has seven players on the field and union has 15 players.

League stops for a short while after a tackle, making it the less fluid game, but it's still a fats game.

Rugby union highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fnVg1AQrvs

Rugby league highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHRPUBSAiSA

Rugby seven match (it's short)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBci5AH5N8g

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>>75931127
Did you watch it during the Olympics? pretty good

>>75949121
I like Rugby seven because it's the only type of rugby where Portugal is a bit better than utter shit.

>>75949951
Excluding those nations where rugby is a tradition, we're actually good in rugby sevens. But it's not as popular as the 15-player version.

I'd just like any kind of rugby to be popular in portugal desu. I fancy this sport.

>>75931991 this >>75931991

>>75947987
el argentiANO

>>75939590
no more than 3000 people practice it, how do you expect a pro league?

>>75931000
Mong. The kiwi said
"Country is not a member means that country is poor"

A poor team which is a member isn't a counter-example to that statement

>>75947941
Fluidity doesn't mean shit if it's passing the ball back and forth
Might as well watch divegrass

>>75950414
Meh I expect support for the people that DO practice it.

>>75950414
Isn't there a professional basketball league?

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I like rúgbi

>>75930192

It's better than handegg here, but you can't commercialize it without Budweiser or Coors Light or fast food ads

>>75951386
yes but basketball is more popular

>>75951386
Basketball is more popular, it's still poor as fuck though.

You need to realize even in football there's only 200.000 people that practice the sport, and thats counting from little kids in baby football to teenagers in local OFI teams to pros in AUF teams.

>>75937722
Actually we do have a rugby team. We have an small league with 4 teams, we are playing 7s right now and after that union. The best team right now is from the most popular beach in the country where foreigns come for vacation, they have 3 argentinians, 2 aussies and a british guy or something like that.

same reason we hate hockey

not duh black manes game shiiieeeeeeeeeeetttt

if i could change what i like on a whim, my life wouldn't be in the state that it is now

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>>75933333

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>>75951210
you cant pass forth in rugby dumbass

gottem

>>75932089
>we
you have to go back

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>>75931018
> it's real
wut

Why doesn't the world like American Sports?

There niches not everything can be soccer

>>75933144
USA is the current Americas champions, Defeated Argentina at home (more austral stadium in the world) in the last seconds.

>>75963418
>league is made up mostly by Australanians, Argies and Brits, with a handful of Costa Ricans faggots who simply want to play """"a real sport"""" and be special snowflakes
>the only team with money is the team of a University which is not even allowed to use their facilities to train

What did you expect? Besides the many forms of Association Football, only Basketball has enough fans and players here to have a pro league, training centres and what not.

>>75963511
> Name
> Surname
> Email
> Please choose your team

It still feels too surreal