Union or League - what did you start with?
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Darby Loudon (17)
played football in thailand for 6 years until a teacher moved from nudgee college to work at my school and set up a rugby program there (helped it was a WC year as well)
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Started on Aussie Rules...
My mum had heard it was better for kids to develop coordination..
My mum had heard it was better for kids to develop coordination..
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Alan Cameron (40)
Dad played schoolboy rep league for wests, so I grew up watching league. One day at about age 8 I was dragged to a Sunday lunch at parents friends house. They had a teenage son who was watching tv out the back so I went out there. I asked what was this game that he was watching, it was a bledisloe cup match. I remember being mesmerized by the constant tension, and have watched rugby ever since. Played from age 10 to 15 when I got injured. Like WJ I gave up on league when moruya got dumped.
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Trevor Allan (34)
Soccer to start, then league. Didn't play my first game of rugby until I was 22. Never played anything else again but still watch both soccer and league (I don't go for the mungo bashing because I see league has a place and quite enjoy watching it) ... and AFL and NFL (have developed a real interests in NFL over last couple of years)... and just about any other sport, except darts and curling - don't really get those.
Ditto.
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Phil Kearns (64)
League is far more widespread than rugby in the Catholic schools system, or it used to be. I am not a sports historian, but I would imagine that the decision of the Catholic schools system to embrace league in its early days after the split was a huge factor in the game's propagation.
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Syd Malcolm (24)
Agree with your post there Wamberal.
Yep Soccer to start with then started getting too many yellow cards. League to start with but just enjoyed playing Rugby more, for a number of reasons. One of the main one's being less degenerates on the sideline. Cricket took a back seat when girls and beaches became more interesting.
Yep Soccer to start with then started getting too many yellow cards. League to start with but just enjoyed playing Rugby more, for a number of reasons. One of the main one's being less degenerates on the sideline. Cricket took a back seat when girls and beaches became more interesting.
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Phil Kearns (64)
I was born in Eastwood, and lived for the first 12 years of my life within 500 metres of the old Eastwood Oval. I was entranced from an early age at the Saturday afternoon sounds during the season, and quickly became a fan. My mother didn't want me to play rugby, like most mothers, so I played soccer for a while, and hockey, but, as soon as I could, I donned the blue and white.
I also had a season of league. It was an interesting counterpoint, in retrospect, three of the chaps in the team went on to play first grade NRL (although it was not the NRL at that time). The leaguies definitely took their sport a lot more seriously than the rah rahs did, at the junior level.
I also had a season of league. It was an interesting counterpoint, in retrospect, three of the chaps in the team went on to play first grade NRL (although it was not the NRL at that time). The leaguies definitely took their sport a lot more seriously than the rah rahs did, at the junior level.
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Peter Sullivan (51)
When i was about 6 that was the hight of Super rugby and being from Perth we had the mighty Western Reds so thats what we all played. But i can still remember when i made the move during the 1999 world cup i watched the final i was about 11 i think that was the moment i saw the light and have never looked back!
My Uncle was involved with Penrith in League, so I always "followed" them, coming to a peak when they won the final with Brandy Alexander, a friend of my Uncles and had a bit to do with my cousins. All this meant little as my family was very anti sport, it was never on TV and I had to get lifts with other parents to get to outside sport.
I eventually made it to High School where my History teacher put together a Union team, and I played with them, it was the start and I never looked back. I had never played league and when I did fill in for the school team later I hated it, so boring.
I eventually made it to High School where my History teacher put together a Union team, and I played with them, it was the start and I never looked back. I had never played league and when I did fill in for the school team later I hated it, so boring.
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Chris McKivat (8)
Played league because that was all there was, then some school teachers started a Rugby club in our town so I played both. When I went to Uni I met a very pretty girl who said she liked Rugby so I played Rugby in an attempt to impress her. Did for a while but then she fell for a nerd who played no10. I kept playing because I liked the game and in a vain attempt to either win her back or attract a replacement which wasnt likely among the League demographic. Met my wife in casualty after a badly broken nose.
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Chilla Wilson (44)
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Bill McLean (32)
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Jimmy Flynn (14)
Having an English father, played Soccer till I was 10. Then the Darkness took me and played rugger till 2 years ago where i slipped a disk in my back....twice in one season
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Prior to my teens, played mostly cricket, with a short football/soccer stint.
Have never played Aussie Rules.
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Chilla Wilson (44)
Given your choice of quote Army Gav, i though you were going to say, prior to my teens, I was a timelord.
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Desmond Connor (43)
For me, Soccer, then Union at about 12 years old. Played a bit of league at school, not much though. Never played AFL even though it's the number one sport in the Riverina.
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