Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Rugby & The World Cup Final

It's over for another four years, the springboks outlasted the poms in a snooze fest kickathon, which as far as I'm concerned showed rugby at it's worst, when it was supposed to be the show piece of the sport!!!

Which brings me to something a friend said the other day, "I'm really not liking rugby at the moment, and I'm struggling to remain interested in the games as they are dull and full of kicking"!

I totally agree and would like to see the stellenbosch laws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellenbosch_Laws given a real chance to free the game up, but it won't really solve the problem. For the main problem lies with the players, as far as sportsmouth is concerned, it looks like they are so scared of losing that they resort to these tactics for if they were to take a chance and mess it up they would not want to be known as the one to have "dropped the world cup"!!

The super rugby and club rugby formats have less pressure on the individual players, where one loss does not end your season until finals time, but by then the players are usually so used to playing their particular style of rugby that they actually play rugby to win. Playing to win and playing not to lose are very different mind sets.

With the sport being professional and the players only having a short time frame to make a living, being dropped from the national side because you took a chance or two and failed, doesn't exactly give you great bargaining power when it comes time for contract renogoiations.

I may be wrong.

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