I couldn't care less whether you like football or not. My point is that there are loads on here who use terms like wendyball to insinuate that because they watch a tough game like Rugby League fans it gives them some kind superiority over football fans and footballers.

You make a clear distinction between the players in the top games and those playing Sunday League. I used the Sunday Leagues as a example but you could go up through the semi professional leagues and through the professional leagues to the very top. You wouldn't tell 99.99% of players to their face that they are soft and play a girls game.

As for your comment that Saturday/Sunday players are chavs and thugs, I've never heard anything more ridiculous in my life. The last team I played for was in the Mid Cheshire leagues and was filled with people in very successful jobs and running successful businesses. There's just as many thugs playing amateur Rugby League than there are playing Warrington Sunday League football.

Monsieur Invisible makes some good points about gamesmanship as well.

It's certainly that as well.

Why is it?

It's a rugby forum for people who like rugby, if anyone doesn't like it or thinks it's puerile to call it Wendyball tough titties really.

I used to like football, I had a period between 2002- 2005 in when I gave football a complete wide berth and then tried to get back into it and never really have since.

I look out for the Utd score, I wind up some people at work (Spurs/Arsenal and Chelsea fans) but don't bother with it

It depends how you look at it. I'd say it was a forum for Rugby League fans, which generally mains Rugby League related topics but also a number of off topic threads; like this one.




That goes for anyone's opinion on anything you don't agree with. But people should have to be prepared to back up an opinion and be open to a debate on it.

Just out of interest, you hardcore footballing types, do you give rugby league the same defence and argument when other footballing types refer to it as 'egg chasing' or playing with odd shaped balls in a derisery fashion?

Yes. As long as what they are saying is wrong. On football forums, you often see people just seeing Rugby as one code. A lot of the Rugby Union stereotypes are also applied to League.

I was a huge football fan before I got into Rugby League, but I'm still a football fan.

Using the excuses of diving, too much money and games ending 0-0 to explain why you don't like football anymore is just poor.

I'll be honest, I don't really know why I lost interest in football, I played junior RL at 8 and played for Parkside until a few injuries ended my ability to play, maybe it's not playing football in the first instance that helped kill it off.

Thousands of girls play the game every weekend. Lots of girls playing football in Warrington - Crosfields, Vulcan (sort of Warrington), Winwick, Fife, Appleton, Lymm.... Big in lots of schools too.

I think it was the fastest growing participation sport in England a couple of years back.

Girls do play it but it's not a girls game, and it certainly isn't the girls game as Moving on would imply it to be.

i find it hard to watch match of the day or champions league nowadays and certainley dont watch live games,partly due to watching players drop to the floor like theyve been shot,another reason is players wanting more money because a team mate is on more..pathetic they are,and the standard is down right awful to say the least...for example players like carrick sturridge smalling wellbeck getting caps for england,wouldnt pick em for warrington town