allez les bleues
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davidmills
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6 nations over for another year then
SmallTown
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Why the anti English sentiment? I thought this was a chiefly English message board?
As I said on the other place, unless you’re Irish I can’t get gloating over our national team being humiliated, and as someone who was there the first have was a humiliation.
I honestly would love to know the rationale of gloating over your own nations side losing.
As I said on the other place, unless you’re Irish I can’t get gloating over our national team being humiliated, and as someone who was there the first have was a humiliation.
I honestly would love to know the rationale of gloating over your own nations side losing.
Not really. It's the Six Nations after all. Lots of posters with affiliation with one of the other five nations. And anipathy toward England from the other home nations goes back centuries. The Scots haven't forgotten Flodden.
SmallTown
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Apologies bear I didn't realise you're Welsh. My sympathies.
finny: It certainly came across as gloating. Maybe starting the thread with the opponents main chant, in their language didn't help. It is honestly poor form for an Englishman to gloat about an English defeat. It's unedifying, but kind of understandable, for the other home nations to do it tbh. It's entirely justifiable, however, for the Irish to do it. Thing is, in rugby, they rarely do which is classy on their behalf.
It's very unpleasant to read. I expanded a lot of effort and money to get there to support my team. I Had to suffer an entire halves ignominy of gloating from the home fans and utter uselessness from the English side. To then see fellow Englishman taking pleasure from it is a bit much.
finny: It certainly came across as gloating. Maybe starting the thread with the opponents main chant, in their language didn't help. It is honestly poor form for an Englishman to gloat about an English defeat. It's unedifying, but kind of understandable, for the other home nations to do it tbh. It's entirely justifiable, however, for the Irish to do it. Thing is, in rugby, they rarely do which is classy on their behalf.
It's very unpleasant to read. I expanded a lot of effort and money to get there to support my team. I Had to suffer an entire halves ignominy of gloating from the home fans and utter uselessness from the English side. To then see fellow Englishman taking pleasure from it is a bit much.
Corcaigh_the_Cat
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'our national team being humiliated'
They weren't, they lost but not by many in an entertaining game.
Why the drama over a defeat?
They weren't, they lost but not by many in an entertaining game.
Why the drama over a defeat?
pierrequiroule
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"Why the drama over a defeat?"
Exactly Corcaigh. I suppose one of the (many) reasons the english (I really mean the british but we're talking specifically England here) are so good at sport could be that they are such bad losers? Actually, some are pretty bad winners too.
Exactly Corcaigh. I suppose one of the (many) reasons the english (I really mean the british but we're talking specifically England here) are so good at sport could be that they are such bad losers? Actually, some are pretty bad winners too.