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Post by propdavid_london Fri 12 Jul 2013, 10:26 am

Toulon will play soccer giants Olympique Marseille in a friendly match next Wednesday. Half rugby, half football!

Saw an update on Total Rugby -
sounds like an entertaining concept - cant see how the footballers will play without proper condition and some specialist training - there must be some reduced rules or something!

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Post by propdavid_london Fri 12 Jul 2013, 10:33 am

https://www.facebook.com/irbtotalrugby

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Post by Geordie Fri 12 Jul 2013, 10:52 am

How will the poofball...sorry footballers cope with actual physical contact

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Post by HongKongCherry Fri 12 Jul 2013, 10:54 am

Delon Armitage vs Joey Barton... picard 
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Post by Geordie Fri 12 Jul 2013, 11:04 am

Now thats worth watching HKC

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Post by yappysnap Fri 12 Jul 2013, 11:12 am

Sounds a cool idea, how will it work though...

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Post by Pat_Mustard Fri 12 Jul 2013, 11:22 am

It's got to be touch rugby, there's no way a football club would allow their valuable assets to risk injury playing full contact!

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Post by MotelMoneyMurderMadness Fri 12 Jul 2013, 11:36 am

Pats right. The potential for serious injury is huge, unless Toulon field their u14s

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Post by propdavid_london Fri 12 Jul 2013, 11:40 am

That's what I was thinking Pat. It will probably be 2nd string for both teams.
But its an unfair comparison if both sides don't play the correct rules.

The only time I have seen 2 different sports played together is the old League vs Union (Bath v Wigan) combo matches. They were cracking to watch but at least the 2 games had the same physicality.

The Rugby half of the match would have to be tag rules, uncontested scrums etc.
The Wendyball half would probably just be normal rules.

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Post by propdavid_london Fri 12 Jul 2013, 11:44 am

Perhaps this a 7's format rugby match.

No specialist front row required then. Tackles are hard but there isn't much big rucking or mauling as in 15's. Think that a few of the more robust footballers could cope with that.

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Post by Pat_Mustard Fri 12 Jul 2013, 12:07 pm

It works with similar sports like that propdavid, I know it's also done regularly with shinty/hurling and gaelic football/aussie rules. Rugby and football are obviously much more different. The football half will probably be backs only for Toulon.

Just a thought though, is the 12th of July France's equivalent of the 1st of April or something?

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Post by ScarletSpiderman Fri 12 Jul 2013, 12:29 pm

Pat_Mustard wrote:It works with similar sports like that propdavid, I know it's also done regularly with shinty/hurling and gaelic football/aussie rules. Rugby and football are obviously much more different. The football half will probably be backs only for Toulon.

Just a thought though, is the 12th of July France's equivalent of the 1st of April or something?

I don't know, I reckon any lock should be likely to start in goal.
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Post by GLove39 Fri 12 Jul 2013, 12:36 pm

I'd imagine Wilkinson would be quite handy when it came to taking free kicks. Especially going by that old advert of him & Beckham.

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Post by thebandwagonsociety Fri 12 Jul 2013, 2:15 pm

As long as the rugby was in the first half. Soften up those wendyballers, make the second half a much easier prospect.

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Post by ChequeredJersey Fri 12 Jul 2013, 2:19 pm

Those inter-sports-games are always fun to watch. I've always wanted to see a half NFL-half rugby match. Lions or All blacks or Boks (might be physical enough) vs a franchise
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Post by ChequeredJersey Fri 12 Jul 2013, 2:21 pm

Some rugby players will have been excellent footballers as kids like Danny Care. Same will apply to some footballers who will have played rugby as kids
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Post by yappysnap Sun 14 Jul 2013, 11:16 am

Care, Cips, Wilkinson all had very promising starts in football.

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Post by ChequeredJersey Sun 14 Jul 2013, 5:13 pm

Anyone reckon Folau would make a good wide receiver!?
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Post by doctor_grey Sun 14 Jul 2013, 8:55 pm

yappysnap wrote:Care, Cips, Wilkinson all had very promising starts in football.
But they didn't make it because they don't know how to dive.

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Post by MrsP Sun 14 Jul 2013, 9:06 pm

I know we were hardly Toulon and Marseille but we used to have a charity match at school each year where the 1st XV lads played the 1st XI+4 girls at hockey and rugby. I can't remember all the rules but basically the girls could do anything we wanted but the boys were not allowed to run with the ball, they had to scrum and lineout on their knees and they weren't allowed to tackle in the rugby match.

For the record both games ended in honourable draws. We scored a great try and the lads responded by catching one of the girls and carrying her and the ball across the try line.

We were really annoyed that the lads found it so easy to play hockey!!

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Post by ChequeredJersey Sun 14 Jul 2013, 9:23 pm

We used to play the girls at Netball. And win. Did it at Uni this year too in a netball tournament between the sports clubs in which the final saw the rugby team beat he netball firsts
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Post by doctor_grey Sun 14 Jul 2013, 9:35 pm

MrsP wrote:they had to scrum and lineout on their knees and they weren't allowed to tackle in the rugby match.
My god, this is dreadful reading.  Another sad example of women seeking to humiliate the males of the species and get them down on their knees.  And institutionalised in the schools, no less!  The end is nigh my friends unless we, as men, stand up for ourselves (especially if we say please and take out the rubbish first).

I would have thought everyone would have enjoyed the tackling bit........

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Post by MrsP Sun 14 Jul 2013, 9:36 pm

That must have caused a bit of consternation CJ.

Truth be told the only reason the lads didn't beat us at hockey was that they didn't understand the rules. This was back in the day when the "obstruction" rule in hockey was pretty complex ie. it was very very easy to penalise someone.

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Post by MrsP Sun 14 Jul 2013, 9:39 pm

Oh, I think we all enjoyed it immensely!

Very Happy 

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Post by doctor_grey Sun 14 Jul 2013, 9:42 pm

Well then, I take back (almost) all of what i said.

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Post by MrsP Sun 14 Jul 2013, 9:45 pm

You're just jealous!

Boy's school?

Whistle 

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Post by ChequeredJersey Sun 14 Jul 2013, 9:53 pm

It did a bit especially as the netball team had a pretty successful season! But a 6-10 second row is pretty useful in a gamevin which the defence can't come within 1m!
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Post by ScarletSpiderman Sun 14 Jul 2013, 10:00 pm

ChequeredJersey wrote:It did a bit especially as the netball team had a pretty successful season! But a 6-10 second row is pretty useful in a gamevin which the defence can't come within 1m!

Also makes it far easier to score when you can almosr just drop the ball in the net. A bloke at work, 6ft5, took part in a charity natch the other week vrs an u18s team and said he basically just hand to stand still, catch the ball and pop it in the net. I guess if in rugby there is no substitute for speed, in netball there is no substitute for height
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Post by Thomond Mon 15 Jul 2013, 10:50 am

ChequeredJersey wrote:Those inter-sports-games are always fun to watch. I've always wanted to see a half NFL-half rugby match. Lions or All blacks or Boks (might be physical enough) vs a franchise


The concept would be good but the game itself would be aboslutely shoite.

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Post by nganboy Tue 16 Jul 2013, 1:22 am

ScarletSpiderman wrote:
ChequeredJersey wrote:It did a bit especially as the netball team had a pretty successful season! But a 6-10 second row is pretty useful in a gamevin which the defence can't come within 1m!

Also makes it far easier to score when you can almosr just drop the ball in the net.  A bloke at work, 6ft5, took part in a charity natch the other week vrs an u18s team and said he basically just hand to stand still, catch the ball and pop it in the net.  I guess if in rugby there is no substitute for speed, in netball there is no substitute for height

Kiwis bending the rules.

In pro netball match earlier this year one of the kiwi teams lifted the defender to intercept a shoot. Only done once and no other teams has tried it but it is perfectly legal.
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Post by maestegmafia Thu 18 Jul 2013, 12:53 pm

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ygDU_BQ95yc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DygDU_BQ95yc

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Post by maestegmafia Thu 18 Jul 2013, 1:04 pm

Eric Cantona as referee

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Post by ScarletSpiderman Thu 18 Jul 2013, 8:31 pm

nganboy wrote:
ScarletSpiderman wrote:
ChequeredJersey wrote:It did a bit especially as the netball team had a pretty successful season! But a 6-10 second row is pretty useful in a gamevin which the defence can't come within 1m!

Also makes it far easier to score when you can almosr just drop the ball in the net.  A bloke at work, 6ft5, took part in a charity natch the other week vrs an u18s team and said he basically just hand to stand still, catch the ball and pop it in the net.  I guess if in rugby there is no substitute for speed, in netball there is no substitute for height

Kiwis bending the rules.

In pro netball match earlier this year one of the kiwi teams lifted the defender to intercept a shoot. Only done once and no other teams has tried it but it is perfectly legal.

I bet there was a fair bit of complaining/back patting about that, depending on which side you back.
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Post by HammerofThunor Fri 19 Jul 2013, 7:15 am

It doesn't look like they were taking it seriously. Shocking Whistle 

Does look like it was a lot of fun

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Post by tigertattie Fri 19 Jul 2013, 9:33 am

What was the outcome?

I've always wanted the Scotland rugby team and football team to play each other in a half of each sport. Overall winner gets all the governement funding of the other!
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Post by LordDowlais Fri 19 Jul 2013, 9:55 am

Marseille won 36-35.

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Post by maestegmafia Fri 19 Jul 2013, 5:01 pm

Cantona taking a conversion at the end and hitting the cross bar dead centre showed skill and a sense of the fun of the occasion.

Looks like a great way to get the fans of both clubs to enjoy a fun day out...

Take note Ospreys and Swansea FC

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Post by kingraf Sat 20 Jul 2013, 10:14 am

We used to play Basketball/Netball matches in my high school. Got stopped because one too many guys thought posterizing a girl would he funny...

These things are great fun, I suppose. It certainly looked it.
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Post by Coleman Sat 20 Jul 2013, 10:18 am

Do the O's still play a cricket game pre season?

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