City Cheaper Than Tigers

[Bayfox]

Have you ever been to France?

Tigers are known by most men and many women. City are known by practically no-one and when explained they just conclude that they're a second level team (which in most countries is a synonym for crap).

Rugby isn't a minority sport. The 2007 world cup was broadcast to a cumulative 4.2billion people.

This is like asking if anyone has heard of manchester united, then asking them to name a Current Newcastle Falcons Player when they have no interest in Rugby.

Have you been to Italy? Most people out there still aren't aware Italy have a Rugby Team and you'll struggle to find a local rugby pitch down south.

I really have very little interest in rugby, I watch England Occasionally, Have only ever watched 1 tigers match on t.v and that was a final (glory hunter I know) they lost. whoops.

I have no interest if the Tigers are Cheaper, more expensive or free, but I have nothing against those who wish to watch egg chasing, It just doesn't appeal to me. Especially when as a football fan I get labeled a hooligan, but rugby fans have nothing against watching a good scrap on the pitch. Double Standards?

[Captain...]

This is like asking if anyone has heard of manchester united, then asking them to name a Current Newcastle Falcons Player when they have no interest in Rugby.

Have you been to Italy? Most people out there still aren't aware Italy have a Rugby Team and you'll struggle to find a local rugby pitch down south.

I really have very little interest in rugby, I watch England Occasionally, Have only ever watched 1 tigers match on t.v and that was a final (glory hunter I know) they lost. whoops.

I have no interest if the Tigers are Cheaper, more expensive or free, but I have nothing against those who wish to watch egg chasing, It just doesn't appeal to me. Especially when as a football fan I get labeled a hooligan, but rugby fans have nothing against watching a good scrap on the pitch. Double Standards?

It doesn't really matter if you like Rugby or not, it is something this City has of which we should be proud.

Even though I find it a very tedious sport, I like to read that Leicester Riders are doing well*, or when we win the County 2020 championships etc, I don't see this pointless rivalry across the city.

*Which incidentally they are only lost once all season and are currently top of the *shudder* "Ladder".

[Bayfox]

It doesn't really matter if you like Rugby or not, it is something this City has of which we should be proud.

Even though I find it a very tedious sport, I like to read that Leicester Riders are doing well*, or when we win the County 2020 championships etc, I don't see this pointless rivalry across the city.

*Which incidentally they are only lost once all season and are currently top of the *shudder* "Ladder".

It Doesn't ...............

and for the record yes I like the fact that the City has the manchester united of rugby based here, but it doesn't make me proud.

Leicester City winning a game makes me proud, hearing the tigers have won something has no effect. As for pointless rivalry.............It's just banter............isn't it?

As stated football is my sport, I have watched the riders once or twice, but my god is it a poor standard, I played basketball to a decent standard having spent a bit of time in the states as a kid but it's not the NBA, it's a bit like watching womens football, some how it's just not the same.

[Guest]

Yes, a fair few times

I bet for every country that you say care about Rugby I can name ten or twenty that don't.

The occaisional large viewing figures don't mean that week in week out it isn't a minority sport.

The point was you said every where you visited.

But then again you were the guy calling out nuge and City in a couple of matches early in the season.

[Guest]

Really? I try once or twice a season to try and get into the Tigers. Every time I come away bored with the game, unimpressed by the atmosphere, and perplexed by the make up of the fan base. However, no doubt I will keep trying.

I go because my gf is welsh and she grew up loving rugby. However, even she admits the Tigers isn't anything like she rugby she knows. Back in Wales rugby is a sport for everyman, not mostly limited to a public school participation sport, and supported by entire communities often in preference to Football. In England, like it or not, that simply isn't the case.

you're living in the past chum.

It's not a public school sport or limited to certain classes.

There is nothing wrong with you being unable to appreciate a great sport or a great team but to denigrate millions of others is a little foolish.

[Guest]

This is like asking if anyone has heard of manchester united, then asking them to name a Current Newcastle Falcons Player when they have no interest in Rugby.

Have you been to Italy? Most people out there still aren't aware Italy have a Rugby Team and you'll struggle to find a local rugby pitch down south.

I really have very little interest in rugby, I watch England Occasionally, Have only ever watched 1 tigers match on t.v and that was a final (glory hunter I know) they lost. whoops.

I have no interest if the Tigers are Cheaper, more expensive or free, but I have nothing against those who wish to watch egg chasing, It just doesn't appeal to me. Especially when as a football fan I get labeled a hooligan, but rugby fans have nothing against watching a good scrap on the pitch. Double Standards?

You don't understand why football has the hooligan tag and Rugby doesn't?

You're not really comparing a little handbagging on a rugby pitch to stabbings and street fighting around football matches are you?

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Taking it in Is now banned at every ground in Britain apart from Lords, and some counties wonder why the attendances are dropping. England can get away with it as you are watching high quality action, you need a crate to watch Buck and Naik be carted around for 8 hours.

I always take a vodka and lemonade in a water bottle to England games now, gets you through until lunch then you can start paying the obscene prices they charge on the bars.

I had a bottle of whisky confiscated at Welford Road a few years ago, so the next season poured my whiskey into a soft drinl can, just before entering the ground.

At half time the same female steward came over, and smelt the contents. Bloody well taken from me again.