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I don't where I've been to miss this thread, but seeing that Spurs shirt has hurt me eyes @baywasp. What are you thinking?
Now you being a spurs fan has made us life long rivals as I support Arsenal (@dtc thats how it's spelt). I know you're relatively new to football ( and yes if you're going to support an English team it's called football not soccer!
) so I'll let you do a bit of research on why that is. It's a interesting story.
I have been a life long gooner (look it up) I actually used to know Ian Wright and David Rocastle I went to the same school as them and we lived just streets apart.
Really looking forward to the new season starting. We don't play you guys until November.
I should also state that I live in a house with three Chelsea fans. My son has a season ticket, so I'm pretty outnumbered. There have been some very colourful exchanges in our house come match days!!
Looking forward to some FOOTBALL banter with you.
Now you being a spurs fan has made us life long rivals as I support Arsenal (@dtc thats how it's spelt). I know you're relatively new to football ( and yes if you're going to support an English team it's called football not soccer!
) so I'll let you do a bit of research on why that is. It's a interesting story.I have been a life long gooner (look it up) I actually used to know Ian Wright and David Rocastle I went to the same school as them and we lived just streets apart.
Really looking forward to the new season starting. We don't play you guys until November.
I should also state that I live in a house with three Chelsea fans. My son has a season ticket, so I'm pretty outnumbered. There have been some very colourful exchanges in our house come match days!!
Looking forward to some FOOTBALL banter with you.
Yeah I did. Saw the whole game. Spurs beat Paris Saint-Germain 4-2. I know even less about French teams than I do English ones, so I'm not sure if they are usually good, but they didn't look the best as the game went on. Spurs seemed decent, but I'm still figuring out how it works and what to look for. It was easier to follow this time because I found a great, stable stream with commentary in English. Except someone texted me during the game, so I got distracted and I saw someone getting a red card but I hadn't seen what happened. A commentator said something about Harry Kane, so I assumed it was him until I checked on Twitter and it was some PSG guy. I was pretty happy with how things turned out (even though I managed to tear my Spurs shirt a little right before the game started, which I had assumed was a bad luck omen.)
I would be perfectly fine with calling it football, especially since i don't have much of an affinity for American football (I have a favorite team, follow them on Facebook, and am waiting for them to win their first Superbowl after like 50-some years of existing as a team, will sometime watch the Superbowl no matter who is playing, and might turn on a regular season game once a year if get bored enough.) I almost feel like people will think I'm pretentious if I do that though. Similar to when I pronounce French loan words in the English language the proper French way because growing up with a mother who teaches French drilled it into me 
I guess in this thread people won't mind though, so I'll try to start saying football here.
I have read a few basic books about football, like the "for Dummies" type for clueless Americans haha so I am slowly learning. (Plus I read a book about sports fan psychology and the guy kept writing about joining an Arsenal supporters club in San Francisco to study their behavior so he only mentioned Spurs in conjunction to a big game he watched where Spurs apparently got crushed) I kinda know about gooners and stuff. And I've seen a few around. I'm not always sure how serious they are about it because I know they are a more well-known team at least in the US (like when I see someone in a Man Utd shirt I wonder if they are just doing it to be cool, whereas I probably wouldn't've heard of Tottenham were it not for my friend on the school rugby team. Not a fair judgment, I know.) I saw one dude in at the mall south of Pittsburgh like seriously no more than a week after I became a fan, and then a few weeks later I saw one downtown, then a different one the next day. I know there are more Spurs fans around here than just me and my one friend because there's even a supporters club who get together and watch the games in a British type pub that exists decently close to my house (even the games that come on ridiculously early). I don't know if my friend ever goes or gets involved with the club in any way.
I'm pretty bad at banter though. At least I don't take that kind of thing personally like I used to do when I was younger. I hated all sports until age 12 when I discovered that ice hockey is exciting, but my favorite team was the rival of both teams there were fans of where I grew up. Philadelphia Flyers fans were the worst, because they were definitely the majority and are also known for being crappy people in general. It was kind of brutal when the Flyers eliminated the Capitals in the playoffs my first(?) year of high school. Pittsburgh Penguins fans were generally nicer, and they still are, even though I live in Pittsburgh now. I've also figured out that people trashing the Capitals is not saying anything about me. But I still don't understand how to trash talk and stuff.
I don't where I've been to miss this thread, but seeing that Spurs shirt has hurt me eyes @baywasp. What are you thinking?
Now you being a spurs fan has made us life long rivals as I support Arsenal (@dtc thats how it's spelt). I know you're relatively new to football ( and yes if you're going to support an English team it's called football not soccer!) so I'll let you do a bit of research on why that is. It's a interesting story.
I have been a life long gooner (look it up) I actually used to know Ian Wright and David Rocastle I went to the same school as them and we lived just streets apart.
Really looking forward to the new season starting. We don't play you guys until November.
I should also state that I live in a house with three Chelsea fans. My son has a season ticket, so I'm pretty outnumbered. There have been some very colourful exchanges in our house come match days!!
Looking forward to some FOOTBALL banter with you.
Now you being a spurs fan has made us life long rivals as I support Arsenal (@dtc thats how it's spelt). I know you're relatively new to football ( and yes if you're going to support an English team it's called football not soccer!
) so I'll let you do a bit of research on why that is. It's a interesting story.I have been a life long gooner (look it up) I actually used to know Ian Wright and David Rocastle I went to the same school as them and we lived just streets apart.
Really looking forward to the new season starting. We don't play you guys until November.
I should also state that I live in a house with three Chelsea fans. My son has a season ticket, so I'm pretty outnumbered. There have been some very colourful exchanges in our house come match days!!
Looking forward to some FOOTBALL banter with you.
I guess in this thread people won't mind though, so I'll try to start saying football here.I have read a few basic books about football, like the "for Dummies" type for clueless Americans haha so I am slowly learning. (Plus I read a book about sports fan psychology and the guy kept writing about joining an Arsenal supporters club in San Francisco to study their behavior so he only mentioned Spurs in conjunction to a big game he watched where Spurs apparently got crushed
) I kinda know about gooners and stuff. And I've seen a few around. I'm not always sure how serious they are about it because I know they are a more well-known team at least in the US (like when I see someone in a Man Utd shirt I wonder if they are just doing it to be cool, whereas I probably wouldn't've heard of Tottenham were it not for my friend on the school rugby team. Not a fair judgment, I know.) I saw one dude in at the mall south of Pittsburgh like seriously no more than a week after I became a fan, and then a few weeks later I saw one downtown, then a different one the next day. I know there are more Spurs fans around here than just me and my one friend because there's even a supporters club who get together and watch the games in a British type pub that exists decently close to my house (even the games that come on ridiculously early). I don't know if my friend ever goes or gets involved with the club in any way.I'm pretty bad at banter though. At least I don't take that kind of thing personally like I used to do when I was younger. I hated all sports until age 12 when I discovered that ice hockey is exciting, but my favorite team was the rival of both teams there were fans of where I grew up. Philadelphia Flyers fans were the worst, because they were definitely the majority and are also known for being crappy people in general. It was kind of brutal when the Flyers eliminated the Capitals in the playoffs my first(?) year of high school. Pittsburgh Penguins fans were generally nicer, and they still are, even though I live in Pittsburgh now. I've also figured out that people trashing the Capitals is not saying anything about me. But I still don't understand how to trash talk and stuff.
Vikings. I only really picked them because of my dad though. Who became a fan of them because his childhood best friend was from Minnesota. When my dad would have American football on the TV, it was more often at the college level. He's a big Penn State fan. That's his alma mater, and he seems to feel a major connection to it even though IIRC the main sport he played in his college days was intramural street hockey. He definitely cried when the old Penn State coach Joe Paterno died. (The only other time I remember actually seeing him cry was when my family went to the movie theatre and watched Marley & Me. :p )
I got a compliment on my Spurs jersey this afternoon by a random mailman. I'm not sure if he's a fan or if he just liked it aesthetically, but it was cool and unexpected. Too bad the last two games turned out the way they did though :/ I watched the one vs. Roma on like Tuesday or whatever. My other Spurs friend fan got to go with his family and his girlfriend, since it was in New Jersey only the next state over. I'm jealous. But he's been a fan for longer than I have, so I can't really complain. I was busy during the first half of the Man City game, but I decided to hang around on my college campus to see if I could stream the second half somewhere since my bus ride home from there is nearly a half hour. None of the sites were working right (probably because school wifi sucks), so I gave up and just followed the text updates on the match centre page or whatever it's called on the team website. Probably just as well.
Sometimes when I am trying to watch ice hockey and having trouble with my streams I go on the "live update" I can find when I search up the game on Google. That sucks too. (Still low scoring, but to a somewhat lesser extent.) But the worst was when I tried to follow a game ending in a shootout just by reading my Twitter feed.
My friend told me he gets compliments on his Spurs jerseys all the time. Guess there are more fans around here than I realized. I actually hadn't even heard of the team until he mentioned them, so that's surprising.
My friend told me he gets compliments on his Spurs jerseys all the time. Guess there are more fans around here than I realized. I actually hadn't even heard of the team until he mentioned them, so that's surprising.
So I was talking in Jim's Cafe about how I was thinking about going to the pub I mentioned earlier on this page to watch the first game of the season for Spurs. I wasn't sure about it because I can be nervous about new situations and people. I decided to go, especially since it was the very first game. More crowded than I expected, I guess. but the space was pretty small too. A lot of people were loud and raucous but didn't make me feel weird for being more quiet while watching, which is how I tend to be. Nobody really went out of their way to greet me, but the environment was not at all unwelcoming. There were a few Newcastle fans there, but Pittsburgh Spurs supporters club pretty much owned the space it seems to me. Not sure if Newcastle has their own supporters club in my city... tried to look on their website but the site seems like kind of shit to me. And not worth doing more research beyond that anyway. Just wondering.
So 2-0. Pretty cool I guess. Not as exciting as the first two games I saw but it was great to be able to share it with other people besides just texting my friend the fellow Spurs fan (who told me he'd like to come to one of these meetups at the pub later in the season if he has time.) A lot of the reactions were fun, seeing how my fellow fans feel about certain players. I overheard the guys I was standing behind saying that they feel like they always see Lloris making mistakes, which sounded strange thinking about how I came to choose to support Spurs in the first place. A few of the fans did a chant about Dele Alli when he scored. I mostly didn't understand what they said, but my friend told me how the chant goes when I mentioned to to him afterwards. I was also happy that a large amount of people cheered when Heung Min Son/Son Heung-Min, whatever is the proper way to refer to him (idk guess I'll just call him Sonny like the other fans
) was subbed in during the second half. I love that guy, I'm glad other people feel the same way, and it was great that he has healed enough from his injury to be back for part of the season debut.
I think this is the first time I've seen Lloris get a clean sheet since I became a fan at the end of last season. That's cool for him.
This was definitely worth going to for me. I gave my email address to the one guy who keeps a mailing list, plus I follow the group on Twitter and have liked it on Facebook. So I'll be able to keep up with it. A lot of these games seem to overlap with when I tend to want to go to church, so as much as I would like to always go, I will probably miss some. Plus I need to look closer at my rugby schedule for this fall to see if anything overlaps there. I'm also gonna need to set a little money aside for going to these things so I can buy at least a drink. Today I had money left over from a meeting with a friend that is not happening and a concert that is also probably not happening. But I tend to be really bad with money and get what seems like such a small amount at the beginning of the month. Guess I could've drank more cheaply or maybe not drank at all. I am not sure if there is 100% an expectation that fans who come in to watch the game will buy at least something, but I felt like I should. I tend to be extremely good at passing unnoticed in real life, so I don't doubt that I could've gotten away with not buying anything the whole game, but I bought myself a beer for the second half. I tend to drink super slow so it lasted a while. Got apparently a 20 oz draft of Guinness (looking it up, that seems to be the amount of an imperial pint, but I am not a huge drinker and have no idea for real.) It was $7.25. I could've gotten something in a bottle or can for cheaper, but the only things I wanted from that menu were American, and I thought it'd be weird to be in a pub watching English soc...... err, football, while drinking American beer. I knew I like Guinness and just had to make a choice eventually. They probably would've been just fine with me buying a soda or something instead, but I thought it'd be better with beer. Even though it was pretty early to be drinking for me. But it doesn't matter since I only had one anyway. (Maybe Guinness was the wrong choice too since I was watching English teams rather than Irish, but it is at least the same continent and general area haha. And I definitely wasn't the only one drinking it. Maybe I'm the only one who's thought about it to this extent :/ )
I think my biggest worries was that it would come up somehow that I just became a fan in May and people would judge me for it. But I didn't mention it, no one asked, and I doubt it would have been a problem even if they had. We took a photo outside the pub of all the supporters together with some banner they had. I was standing near the front since I'm so short. I also wondered if people would think it was stupid that I chose the third jersey to buy because like I said before I'd seen some people whining about it on Facebook, like it being ugly and stuff. But there were at least 4 others with the same type.
So 2-0. Pretty cool I guess. Not as exciting as the first two games I saw but it was great to be able to share it with other people besides just texting my friend the fellow Spurs fan (who told me he'd like to come to one of these meetups at the pub later in the season if he has time.) A lot of the reactions were fun, seeing how my fellow fans feel about certain players. I overheard the guys I was standing behind saying that they feel like they always see Lloris making mistakes, which sounded strange thinking about how I came to choose to support Spurs in the first place. A few of the fans did a chant about Dele Alli when he scored. I mostly didn't understand what they said, but my friend told me how the chant goes when I mentioned to to him afterwards. I was also happy that a large amount of people cheered when Heung Min Son/Son Heung-Min, whatever is the proper way to refer to him (idk guess I'll just call him Sonny like the other fans
) was subbed in during the second half. I love that guy, I'm glad other people feel the same way, and it was great that he has healed enough from his injury to be back for part of the season debut.I think this is the first time I've seen Lloris get a clean sheet since I became a fan at the end of last season. That's cool for him.
This was definitely worth going to for me. I gave my email address to the one guy who keeps a mailing list, plus I follow the group on Twitter and have liked it on Facebook. So I'll be able to keep up with it. A lot of these games seem to overlap with when I tend to want to go to church, so as much as I would like to always go, I will probably miss some. Plus I need to look closer at my rugby schedule for this fall to see if anything overlaps there. I'm also gonna need to set a little money aside for going to these things so I can buy at least a drink. Today I had money left over from a meeting with a friend that is not happening and a concert that is also probably not happening. But I tend to be really bad with money and get what seems like such a small amount at the beginning of the month. Guess I could've drank more cheaply or maybe not drank at all. I am not sure if there is 100% an expectation that fans who come in to watch the game will buy at least something, but I felt like I should. I tend to be extremely good at passing unnoticed in real life, so I don't doubt that I could've gotten away with not buying anything the whole game, but I bought myself a beer for the second half. I tend to drink super slow so it lasted a while. Got apparently a 20 oz draft of Guinness (looking it up, that seems to be the amount of an imperial pint, but I am not a huge drinker and have no idea for real.) It was $7.25. I could've gotten something in a bottle or can for cheaper, but the only things I wanted from that menu were American, and I thought it'd be weird to be in a pub watching English soc...... err, football, while drinking American beer. I knew I like Guinness and just had to make a choice eventually. They probably would've been just fine with me buying a soda or something instead, but I thought it'd be better with beer. Even though it was pretty early to be drinking for me. But it doesn't matter since I only had one anyway. (Maybe Guinness was the wrong choice too since I was watching English teams rather than Irish, but it is at least the same continent and general area haha. And I definitely wasn't the only one drinking it. Maybe I'm the only one who's thought about it to this extent :/ )
I think my biggest worries was that it would come up somehow that I just became a fan in May and people would judge me for it. But I didn't mention it, no one asked, and I doubt it would have been a problem even if they had. We took a photo outside the pub of all the supporters together with some banner they had. I was standing near the front since I'm so short. I also wondered if people would think it was stupid that I chose the third jersey to buy because like I said before I'd seen some people whining about it on Facebook, like it being ugly and stuff. But there were at least 4 others with the same type.
So I was talking in Jim's Cafe about how I was thinking about going to the pub I mentioned earlier on this page to watch the first game of the season for Spurs. I wasn't sure about it because I can be nervous about new situations and people. I decided to go, especially since it was the very first game. More crowded than I expected, I guess. but the space was pretty small too. A lot of people were loud and raucous but didn't make me feel weird for being more quiet while watching, which is how I tend to be. Nobody really went out of their way to greet me, but the environment was not at all unwelcoming. There were a few Newcastle fans there, but Pittsburgh Spurs supporters club pretty much owned the space it seems to me. Not sure if Newcastle has their own supporters club in my city... tried to look on their website but the site seems like kind of shit to me. And not worth doing more research beyond that anyway. Just wondering.
So 2-0. Pretty cool I guess. Not as exciting as the first two games I saw but it was great to be able to share it with other people besides just texting my friend the fellow Spurs fan (who told me he'd like to come to one of these meetups at the pub later in the season if he has time.) A lot of the reactions were fun, seeing how my fellow fans feel about certain players. I overheard the guys I was standing behind saying that they feel like they always see Lloris making mistakes, which sounded strange thinking about how I came to choose to support Spurs in the first place. A few of the fans did a chant about Dele Alli when he scored. I mostly didn't understand what they said, but my friend told me how the chant goes when I mentioned to to him afterwards. I was also happy that a large amount of people cheered when Heung Min Son/Son Heung-Min, whatever is the proper way to refer to him (idk guess I'll just call him Sonny like the other fans ) was subbed in during the second half. I love that guy, I'm glad other people feel the same way, and it was great that he has healed enough from his injury to be back for part of the season debut.
I think this is the first time I've seen Lloris get a clean sheet since I became a fan at the end of last season. That's cool for him.
This was definitely worth going to for me. I gave my email address to the one guy who keeps a mailing list, plus I follow the group on Twitter and have liked it on Facebook. So I'll be able to keep up with it. A lot of these games seem to overlap with when I tend to want to go to church, so as much as I would like to always go, I will probably miss some. Plus I need to look closer at my rugby schedule for this fall to see if anything overlaps there. I'm also gonna need to set a little money aside for going to these things so I can buy at least a drink. Today I had money left over from a meeting with a friend that is not happening and a concert that is also probably not happening. But I tend to be really bad with money and get what seems like such a small amount at the beginning of the month. Guess I could've drank more cheaply or maybe not drank at all. I am not sure if there is 100% an expectation that fans who come in to watch the game will buy at least something, but I felt like I should. I tend to be extremely good at passing unnoticed in real life, so I don't doubt that I could've gotten away with not buying anything the whole game, but I bought myself a beer for the second half. I tend to drink super slow so it lasted a while. Got apparently a 20 oz draft of Guinness (looking it up, that seems to be the amount of an imperial pint, but I am not a huge drinker and have no idea for real.) It was $7.25. I could've gotten something in a bottle or can for cheaper, but the only things I wanted from that menu were American, and I thought it'd be weird to be in a pub watching English soc...... err, football, while drinking American beer. I knew I like Guinness and just had to make a choice eventually. They probably would've been just fine with me buying a soda or something instead, but I thought it'd be better with beer. Even though it was pretty early to be drinking for me. But it doesn't matter since I only had one anyway. (Maybe Guinness was the wrong choice too since I was watching English teams rather than Irish, but it is at least the same continent and general area haha. And I definitely wasn't the only one drinking it. Maybe I'm the only one who's thought about it to this extent :/ )
I think my biggest worries was that it would come up somehow that I just became a fan in May and people would judge me for it. But I didn't mention it, no one asked, and I doubt it would have been a problem even if they had. We took a photo outside the pub of all the supporters together with some banner they had. I was standing near the front since I'm so short. I also wondered if people would think it was stupid that I chose the third jersey to buy because like I said before I'd seen some people whining about it on Facebook, like it being ugly and stuff. But there were at least 4 others with the same type.
So 2-0. Pretty cool I guess. Not as exciting as the first two games I saw but it was great to be able to share it with other people besides just texting my friend the fellow Spurs fan (who told me he'd like to come to one of these meetups at the pub later in the season if he has time.) A lot of the reactions were fun, seeing how my fellow fans feel about certain players. I overheard the guys I was standing behind saying that they feel like they always see Lloris making mistakes, which sounded strange thinking about how I came to choose to support Spurs in the first place. A few of the fans did a chant about Dele Alli when he scored. I mostly didn't understand what they said, but my friend told me how the chant goes when I mentioned to to him afterwards. I was also happy that a large amount of people cheered when Heung Min Son/Son Heung-Min, whatever is the proper way to refer to him (idk guess I'll just call him Sonny like the other fans
) was subbed in during the second half. I love that guy, I'm glad other people feel the same way, and it was great that he has healed enough from his injury to be back for part of the season debut.I think this is the first time I've seen Lloris get a clean sheet since I became a fan at the end of last season. That's cool for him.
This was definitely worth going to for me. I gave my email address to the one guy who keeps a mailing list, plus I follow the group on Twitter and have liked it on Facebook. So I'll be able to keep up with it. A lot of these games seem to overlap with when I tend to want to go to church, so as much as I would like to always go, I will probably miss some. Plus I need to look closer at my rugby schedule for this fall to see if anything overlaps there. I'm also gonna need to set a little money aside for going to these things so I can buy at least a drink. Today I had money left over from a meeting with a friend that is not happening and a concert that is also probably not happening. But I tend to be really bad with money and get what seems like such a small amount at the beginning of the month. Guess I could've drank more cheaply or maybe not drank at all. I am not sure if there is 100% an expectation that fans who come in to watch the game will buy at least something, but I felt like I should. I tend to be extremely good at passing unnoticed in real life, so I don't doubt that I could've gotten away with not buying anything the whole game, but I bought myself a beer for the second half. I tend to drink super slow so it lasted a while. Got apparently a 20 oz draft of Guinness (looking it up, that seems to be the amount of an imperial pint, but I am not a huge drinker and have no idea for real.) It was $7.25. I could've gotten something in a bottle or can for cheaper, but the only things I wanted from that menu were American, and I thought it'd be weird to be in a pub watching English soc...... err, football, while drinking American beer. I knew I like Guinness and just had to make a choice eventually. They probably would've been just fine with me buying a soda or something instead, but I thought it'd be better with beer. Even though it was pretty early to be drinking for me. But it doesn't matter since I only had one anyway. (Maybe Guinness was the wrong choice too since I was watching English teams rather than Irish, but it is at least the same continent and general area haha. And I definitely wasn't the only one drinking it. Maybe I'm the only one who's thought about it to this extent :/ )
I think my biggest worries was that it would come up somehow that I just became a fan in May and people would judge me for it. But I didn't mention it, no one asked, and I doubt it would have been a problem even if they had. We took a photo outside the pub of all the supporters together with some banner they had. I was standing near the front since I'm so short. I also wondered if people would think it was stupid that I chose the third jersey to buy because like I said before I'd seen some people whining about it on Facebook, like it being ugly and stuff. But there were at least 4 others with the same type.
My boy is not a happy chappy after that woeful display from Jonjo, he should be ashamed of himself. Made captain and what does he do? gets sent off. Freakin liability he is. Spurs never needed to get out of first gear to win the game. Unless something changes rapidly, the Toon are looking down the barrel yet again. Congrats on the win Baywasp, it was deserved.
Just curious, what position are you playing for your rugby team?
Just curious, what position are you playing for your rugby team?
I have never really been in a game yet so I haven't really gotten to try any specific positions yet... when we separate into backs and forwards I didn't know what it meant my first time last fall, but they told me to go with the forwards because I am "bigger" and not fast. It is weird to me when I get referred to as one of the "big boys" because I am very short compared to everybody else (I stand at like 160 cm at most) but unfortunately I am apparently back up to being nearly 13 stone (definitely had to look that up) and out of shape, so I can't always keep up. The past year I was a sub in name only... they were never going to put me in at all... but at least unlike in the fall, they let me wear a jersey every game in the spring. I just figured out the other week that I really screwed up with my grades this past spring to the point where I will probably not be eligible to play at all this year. So I will only have the fall in 2018 to actually see if I can get into a game before I graduate (as long as I stay on track with my schoolwork) :/
Keeping my size in mind, most people I've talked to about it have said I'd probably end up as a prop (even though I am not as strong as I need to be). Several people have mentioned the potential to have me as a hooker, including the guy who was supposed to be our coach last spring but wasn't able to because of his schedule. But I don't think they'd bother teaching me how to hook since that seems to be a more specialized skill and I'm mostly pretty terrible. The guy who was going to be our coach but wasn't also mentioned I could possibly be a flanker. I wouldn't be ideal for that either because my extra weight makes me less mobile, plus I am a timid tackler. Maybe there's no hope for me to ever really play, but I have become good friends with both of the captains, and they (and everyone else) would love to see me out there. I can at least get stronger if I start back in the gym like I was doing in the winter/spring before I wound up in the hospital.
Keeping my size in mind, most people I've talked to about it have said I'd probably end up as a prop (even though I am not as strong as I need to be). Several people have mentioned the potential to have me as a hooker, including the guy who was supposed to be our coach last spring but wasn't able to because of his schedule. But I don't think they'd bother teaching me how to hook since that seems to be a more specialized skill and I'm mostly pretty terrible. The guy who was going to be our coach but wasn't also mentioned I could possibly be a flanker. I wouldn't be ideal for that either because my extra weight makes me less mobile, plus I am a timid tackler. Maybe there's no hope for me to ever really play, but I have become good friends with both of the captains, and they (and everyone else) would love to see me out there. I can at least get stronger if I start back in the gym like I was doing in the winter/spring before I wound up in the hospital.
Yep, front row sounds ideal to me. Props don't need to be that mobile, hookers, they need more agility and its arguably the hardest position on the team, in more ways than one. But yes, you need to be physically strong in the front row. But some of the best flankers I have seen have not been tall men. Look up Neil Back, he played flanker for England for a long time and was not tall.
But good luck with that, I hope you learn enough about the game so you can get on the pitch. Its a very technical game, a bit like chess I always think. Please keep us posted with progress.
But good luck with that, I hope you learn enough about the game so you can get on the pitch. Its a very technical game, a bit like chess I always think. Please keep us posted with progress.
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