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[Arthfael]

Hi all,

My name is Dave and I'm from Sunderland. I visited Inverness a few weeks back and it was a really nice place. Very friendly people and a great atmosphere around the city. I'm not a huge football fan (more a rugby fan) but I do keep my eye on the footy and I'm hoping to get to a ICT home game next season.

Just thought I'd say hello as I'm new on here and stuff.

Dave

Edited June 28, 2009 by Arthfael

[tm4tj]

Welcome aboard Dave.

Have fun.

[SMEE]

Hi Davey. Welcome on board. Always good to have new fans on board. Good Choice matey. Am just hoping nobody lets you know that Newcastle Utd are my English team..................DOH :(

[Arthfael]

Hi Davey. Welcome on board. Always good to have new fans on board. Good Choice matey. Am just hoping nobody lets you know that Newcastle Utd are my English team..................DOH :(

They are mine to, but ssshhh, saying that in Sunderland is like blasphemy. They will hang me for witchcraft crimes, lol.

[WYNESS101]

Welcome to the forum :(

[PullMyFinger]

League's a girls sport is it not?

[Kingsmills]

Welcome

[CaleyD]

I thought for a moment that one of our female fans had been in for a little operation!!!

Welcome to the Forums.

[The Mantis]

Nice of everybody to mackem welcome.

[caley100]

Aye, you can makem up John...

[Scarlet Pimple]

If I can make it from Canada, David, I am sure you can get to Tulloch Caledonian Stadium every other month or so.

Welcome though for sure.

Smile?

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

If I supported Newcastle I would be going to watch somebody else as well. And leave the man alone - most cnuts from Mackemland can only afford to go on one trip a year.

[Arthfael]

haha I hardly ever get to footy games as they are stupidly expensive here at the Maggie empire and the Mackem pit. But I get to one everyone now and again.

I get to many rugby games Newcastle Falcons and Gateshead Thunder and no League is not for girls and don't even get me started on that topic 5thStand :D League and Union are both great games in their own right.

While I'm on the topic, anyone know any decent B&B's or cheaply prices hotels not to far from the TC Stadium? so I can start to plan a trip next season.

Edited July 1, 2009 by Arthfael

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Well - Newcastle RUFC are boring and the Thunder are a feckin joke - get yerself up to Sneck and live ya Geordie ****. :D

Try the Nip Inn on Grant Street.

[PullMyFinger]

McDougall Clansman Hotel, Queensgate Hotel or Douglas Hotel are all highly commended.

[Alex MacLeod]

haha I hardly ever get to footy games as they are stupidly expensive here at the Maggie empire and the Mackem pit. But I get to one everyone now and again.

I get to many rugby games Newcastle Falcons and Gateshead Thunder and no League is not for girls and don't even get me started on that topic 5thStand :D League and Union are both great games in their own right.

While I'm on the topic, anyone know any decent B&B's or cheaply prices hotels not to far from the TC Stadium? so I can start to plan a trip next season.

Johnboy..........where are you........there's business to be had.

[Arthfael]

Well - Newcastle RUFC are boring and the Thunder are a feckin joke - get yerself up to Sneck and live ya Geordie ****. :P

Try the Nip Inn on Grant Street.

How can you say Thunder is a joke when they got screwed? They got their team taken off them in one of the biggest setup deals in any sporting history just to keep a crappy heartland club going that has not improved over the years since. Hull FC. I think you will find they have improved ten fold since they had to start from scratch. Yes they had a very poor period but they won NL2 and since Steve Mac took over, they have really been impressive. We just beat the best in the division, Halifax 34-28 last weekend.

Your right about NRUFC, they can be boring but they are my local team. Ahh rant over.

Thanks for the info on hotels guys ;)

[CaleyD]

Rugby League...that's just rugby for softies that don't want to get their hair messed up. It's barely one step away from Touch Rugby FFS.

:P

[Arthfael]

Well lets be fair, league on average has twice the amount of tackles (av 280 v 122 per game) and plays (av 85 v 79 per game) compared to union, it has less boring tennis style play kicking, its overall a much faster game with more contact due to tackle counts. Also of the only two union v league meetings league proved to be the fitter and better athletes (Bath 6 v 86 Wigan @ league and Bath 44 v 19 Wigan @ union).

On top of that union feel the need to offer stupidly high paged wages to steal league players (Robinson, Harris, Smith, Henry, Orr the list goes on). I think thats enough proof to say which is the best out of the two FFS.

I still like union though as they have a great set-up for internationals, something league struggle to sort out. But club wise league is many years ahead of union.

[CaleyD]

There's no way you can argue that League is a more physical game. It may have more plays/tackles, but the overall action is tame in comparison to Union. It's exactly what you say it is....a version of the sport that only has any real place because it's more spectator friendly....a bit like one day cricket.

[HumbersideDude]

On the rugby league v union I used to play union and always called league woose rugby. But I have been to a few games since moving to Yorkshire (including Gateshead Thunder game v Batley 20-20 draw) and I was plesently surprised at the physical side of the game. These guys really do get stuck in, and don't hold back like the "gentleman" version of the game. My oldest boy has even taken up the game.

The social side of it is also great. Swapping ends at half-time with drinking in the ground like the good old days at the football. I am a convert to rugby league

[DAM]

There's no way you can argue that League is a more physical game. It may have more plays/tackles, but the overall action is tame in comparison to Union. It's exactly what you say it is....a version of the sport that only has any real place because it's more spectator friendly....a bit like one day cricket.

Well, lets put it this way. I knew a Hawick player who was also in the Scotland squad, he moved to England and played League and his opinion was that he thought Union was hard until he started playing League rugby. When he got hit playing rugby Union he knew about it but when he got hit in rugby League he knew very little about it!!!

[Arthfael]

I've played both union and league, even played at academy level league. They are both great, in my opinion union has much more physical scrums. League there isn't much effort in the scrums, unlike union. Also I like line outs, gets a chance to play territory at times, but this can slow the game right down to an unbearable speed. But if you take line outs and long scrums out of the game like league has its a lot more physical as it?s faster with more contact due to the amount of tackles.

League is much faster and the fitness levels are much higher and you?re right though it is the more interesting sport for spectators. League seems to finally be expanding into different areas with new teams like Celtic, Catalan and Toulouse all recently developing the game. Also I hear rumours that Scotland are in the midst of developing a team (Edinburgh I reckon) to play in the SL. The Magic weekend seemed like a success.

I like both but do prefer league over union.

[CaleyD]

Having suffered a double hip dislocation playing Union, I'm not going to be easily persuade that League is more physical.

[Arthfael]

I could prattle on about how many games I have played of each code and how many injuries I have had from each but to be honest injuries don?t prove anything other than if you?re a worker on the pitch or not. Not trying to change your mind but it gets my back up when union players are blatantly ignorant and refuse to even show the slightest bit of respect to league, even though league shows a lot of respect to union by offering charity matches and working together in the community.