Rugby's Great Split

[Poul]

For those of you who are interested in the history of the game there is an informative audio about "Rugby's Great Split" which you can listen to at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bwfyd

 

[PacificCoastRL]

Great find Poul, very interesting. I would suggest that the upper classs (especially the political arm and their big business friends) still doesn't like to be watched by the unwashed masses.

 

[BODISGOD]

Great find Poul, very interesting. I would suggest that the upper classs (especially the political arm and their big business friends) still doesn't like to be watched by the unwashed masses.

Well you would be completely wrong then.

 

[PacificCoastRL]

Well you would be completely wrong then.

Well that is my opinion. Would you care to elaborate on your stance?

 

[BODISGOD]

Well that is my opinion. Would you care to elaborate on your stance?

As I live in a country which actually plays rugby union and that attitude does not exist. Rugby union is a professional sport now and cannot have such backward ideals. Where is your evidence that anyone connected with RU currently at a high level wants nothing to do with the working classes?

 

[Evil Homer]

As I live in a country which actually plays rugby union and that attitude does not exist. Rugby union is a professional sport now and cannot have such backward ideals. Where is your evidence that anyone connected with RU currently at a high level wants nothing to do with the working classes?

You'd be surprised how backwards 'professional' people can be.

 

[PacificCoastRL]

As I live in a country which actually plays rugby union and that attitude does not exist. Rugby union is a professional sport now and cannot have such backward ideals. Where is your evidence that anyone connected with RU currently at a high level wants nothing to do with the working classes?

I wasn't talking about rugby. I was talking about life.

 

[BODISGOD]

I wasn't talking about rugby. I was talking about life.

Okay. I understand what you're saying now sorry.

Still don't really agree. We don't live in a very classest society relative to the 19th century or the early half of the last one.

 

[PacificCoastRL]

Okay. I understand what you're saying now sorry.

Still don't really agree. We don't live in a very classest society relative to the 19th century or the early half of the last one.

I'll agree with you there, but I do believe government and their big business cronies and lobbyists would rather we didn't know what was going on behind closed doors. But having agreed with your statement I will say this - in the 19th century and the early 20th century the upper class would make no bones about the fact that they thought they were better. Now, they don't do that. Not because they don't think they are better, but because they have taken the approach of "letting sleeping dogs lie." The sad part of all this is that we, as a group, don't have the will to change things.