I was watching the Ireland vs Wales game today and found myself actually enjoying it. I think I better go to the doctors tomorrow to get checked out. Trouble is they all support that stuff around here so they may give me something to make me turn. Can't go to our first game either. HELP.

A frontal lobotomy should do the job!

RU is more than capable of throwing up some good games, but when it's bad, it's REALLY bad.

If they made them retreat 5m from the ruck/maul area and reduced the teams by 2 players it would have its merits as a spectator sport.
I can't stand the 36 phases of fat forward rolls to ground and recycles ball, after being met by defender as he takes ball.

Sorted. Watched the highlights of the NRC final and had some lobby. With mince and carrots. You are dead right Maur, taking two players off each side would give more space to run. The rubbish about setting the scrum wants making quicker also.

I enjoy watching Wales RU, you can see glimpses of RL in their attacking play at times. Their first try yesterday was a corker.

I am really glad you posted this because due to yet another Fev game called off because of the weather I watched the same game and enjoyed it which was a tad worrying...Mind you I do have a family member who used to play fly half for the L/tigers and England,well every family has a black sheep I guess,but I have been so anti RU in the past that the incident has left me wondering if I will be going to watch the Iron Lady movie next Think its time for some treatment

Apart from adopting the game to suit 13 players, they could also make big improvements by doing away with the big girls at full back shouting "Mark" when they catch the ball and see a big forrard running at them. They could also do away with the daft Advantage law, where they play another two or three minutes only to be brought back to the original penalty spot. Scrums are more like RL scrums every international, with feeding the ball into the second row, so they could be uncontested, The line out is another joke. There are about twenty offences that can be penalised at the line out. Apart from that it's a great game! (Good to play and get p*****d after but b. awful to watch, usually. Then again, if we've no match and ther's nowt else on the box, what do you do?

Go to a pub with no TV ?

Good answer. Never realized Rugby Yawnion was interfering with my drinking!