The Video That'll Make You Love Rugby Brutal Big Hits, Skills & Highlights |First Reaction!! 

"Rugby is a gentleman sport played by hooligans " that's the catch phrase that tough to us about rugby.im fourth generation rugby player .it is a violent sport but if played with your heart you won't get that hurt.

will i see this comment on EVERY damn rugby video of the internet??

@@weaselbusters yes

You got it completely the wrong way around, hahaha. There's no such thing as a "rugby hooligan", genius.

And this phrase comes from a period in the game when you could scrape your studs intentionally all over the head and body of the player on the ground and claim that your raking for the ball. Truly played by gentlemen.

Kiwifolk here singing that tune in chorus.

French here. I'm glad to share this pation with you guys. Almost a religion to me.

South African here, 2 time world and current world cup champions, you can ignore the French guy, lol but check out the most feared team in the world video...The Springboks

Canadian. Loved watching it growing up. Played in high school and my coach was from SA.

English, totally agree!

I second that

He was on another level.

Jonah Lomu tackling Mike Cat at the 1995 World Cup. Stuff of legends.

And Christian Cullen for the sidesteps

@@Qmocean And I third it.

And respect to the referee like no other sport… where else do you hear yes sir and no sir on a sporting field?? Like someone already said - a hooligans sport played by gentlemen As opposed to soccer - a gentlemen’s sport played by hooligans

My dad told the boys he coach we go to war for 80 minutes . We have a drink afterwards with our opponents.

Oh and the helmets that some wear are for torn ears and prevention of

​@@barr790, commonly called scrum-caps.

Scrum cap

Im a South African and we will die for this game because how it's instilled into us from grassroots level , example my son is 6 years old he wants to play also because his cousins play it at club Rugby level here in Cape town .

@@barr790 as an x player i can tell you they are compulsery for someone who has had a n head ingury

Euless Trinity high school (Dallas metro area in the U.S.) does the Haka before each game as well, as they have quite a few pacific islanders (linemen, of course) in the community, and on the team.

Once the ladies teams started doing the haka it went from laughable to outright hilarious...

And if you happen to be sitting amongst the public actually watching the game the fun is double. Rugby fans are just the most enjoyable and fun bunch of crazy people you can spend an afternoon with.

Fijian, PNG, Tongan, Maori. Pacific Islanders close to Australia play in our teams.

There are a lot of good club sides in Hawaii. The harlequins come to mind. It's been a while and my brain doesn't work too well, probably from playing damn rugby

Psalm Wooching, born in Hawaii played American football and eventually played rugby for usa national team. Not sure where he is nowadays but was always a decent player.

I'm pretty sure they'll be some playing somewhere. Like in the us

@@AgingDrummerBoy-ly1js 😆

ALL BLACK - my favorite team as an American who enjoys Rugby, Aussie Rules Rugby is best. I knew a guy from When I was living in a small town in NorCal, Selwynn, he and all four of his older brothers played for the National team. I cannot remember his last name now. Another friend in that town that I knew from working as a bouncer at local bars, Ben, he played for Fiji. I played American football and every other sport, baseball, surfing, skateboarding, soccer, snow skiing, water skiing, road bike, mountain bike, golf, beach volleyball, karate, boxing, etc... I'm not a very big dude, only just over five foot six, but my prime weight is 165, almost zero body fat, like 3%. I was told I would make a great Hooker if I played Rugby. I wish I did. I started playing sports at age 5. My whole family were athletes, one sister was on the original women's national soccer team before there was pro women's or women's Olympic team. These girls played men's college teams and traveled the country and even played in Europe. They had major sponsors like Budweiser and Addidas back in 1980s.

@@13_13k Hooker, or if you were fast with it, half-back.

As a South African the original post is right watch any of those 3 teams play against each other and you will see a great game and you will see how the ref on the field is respected no other sport can compare to how the ref controls the game only time you get to stop is by the whistle of the ref . Check out Nigel owns the best ref ever .

I just want you to understand that if he watched like a 3 minute intro to rugby video, he has no idea what any of this means lol that being said, I'm an American who played 10 years of football before finding rugby at age 16, I played 2 years in school, earned a scholarship to play. And I promise you I still didn't know all the rules even after 4 yrs of college. I just played on until a whistle. And when there was a whistle, I looked at the ref to see which hand was up. And whenever I heard a whistle I backed up 10m just to be safe in case it was on us and always looking for the quick tap. Barely knew the rules, got a scholarship, won 2 national titles. It is the greatest sport ever tho. Miss it every day. But I'm 32 now and my body is betraying me after a decade of American football and a decade of playing hooker.

@@Wakaflockabach ---- I have already gone through what you are starting to realize that despite what we think and even plan isn't what our bodies are going to do. Throughout my very serious sportsman lifestyle starting at age 6, all year around playing different sports. I played hard to he the best I could and to be better than as many people as I could. With that comes injuries. Eleven years old took a fall on my skateboard, spent all summer every week, two days, at USC childrens hospital for water on my knee having it drained and then filled with dye, xrays, MRI, and therapy., throughout the years baseball, football, skateboarding, snow skiing, dirt bike riding, road bike riding, Karate, surfing, I spent more time at my orthapedic surgeon's oftice than my family doctor. Broken foot, broken collar bone, broken and fractured 3 fingers, broken toe, ACL completely ripped out, replaced, then 5 years later compression fracture that also radialed counter clockwise the top of my Tibia, of the same knee as the ACL replacement, cracked ribs four or five different times, stitches everywhere, small fracture of my hip, strained, stretched, bruised, torn, everything, and I was 45 yrs old when I stopped racing semi pro Hawaiian outrigger canoe OC6 which is 6 men paddling non stop in the open ocean as far as 12 or 15 miles out with no land in sight, waves, sharks, whales, sealions dolphins, etc... canoe is 40 ft long 18 inches wide, 18 inches deep. Sponsored by Hawaiian Airlines, Cliff Bars, Pete's Coffee, and other businesses. I ended up tearing both my rotator cuffs, different races, and that's when the words of all my orthapedic surgeons would tell me as I was being repaired, " when you get to be about 50 yrs old, no matter how active you are, all of your injuries are going to start to catch up with you. Yoy will be in pain everyday, every night, you might get arthritis, you will pay the price for having as much fun as you are having now. You better enjoy it now. Those words were prophetic. I also have been an electrician for 35 years and been hurt, electrocuted, crawling in attics and under buildings, up and down ladders everyday,, I mostly did commercial industrial work, each wire as big around or bigger than a roll of quarters. Installing steel conduit 4 inches in diameter and 10 ft long. My body is shot

and it is still largely ignored in favor of the Sports Center highlight reel hit, unfortunately.

State of Origin is not Rugby its rugby league a whole different game. In Australia rugby is not that popular we prefer Rugby League especially the NRL.

Rugby union is stop start usually because some clown is blowing the pea out of his whistle rugby league is continuous action.

it really isnt about the no helmets, no padding vibe. Our players are taught from the moment they start playing as toddlers, how to hit, how to tackle and how not to break ur neck. Accidents will always happen but learning to tackle as well as protect I dont think is part of gridiron. They just look like a bunch of boofheads running at eachother playing sumo wrestling.

​@@CQuinnLadythey definitely teach tackling techniques, and due to rule changes, can't just run around hammering guys in the head. And while they're wearing helmets, shoulder pads and thigh pads, that's it (except the QB who wears a vest that protects his ribs). Everything else is as uncovered as rugby is. I've played both, and getting hit is getting hit.

My son played both rugby and American football in his teens and twenties. He loved playing both but I hated taking him to American football as it seemed so boring to watch and took so long. Give me a good rugby match any day. 80 minutes of adrenalin and that's just for the spectators. As with a lot of English people my son also played (and still plays football (soccer)) and cricket. Take a look at the T20 cricket matches to get a feel for the difference between cricket and baseball

As an Italian rugby fan I have to say starting from this year the six nations has reached another level. Our team finally managed to get out of two decades of mediocrity and has finally and fully taken his place with the other ones. Next year's is going to be just spectacular, it'll start in Feb.2025 and we're already in full hype for it, so be sure to check out for it!

Then how come you guys are so bad at it?

Well, except is also quite big in France, Italy, Argentina, Portugal , Georgia , Japan and a few other Countries quite distant from British culture and tradition. And that's because it's just GREAT !

The Australian Wallabies are that brave. From what I have been able to gather from the internet, your biggest problem right now is that you have a bunch of twats administering the game in Aus. Too many egos. It's a pity, and I hope you guys get it sorted out. (from a South African).

And socks. Don't forget the socks

My son was always more worried about breaking his fingers in American football even though the most serious injuries he go were from playing rugby. I love watching the 6 nations and the internationals. Check up about Jonah Lumo who played for New Zealand. An incredible talent who died far too young

lol...twice as big huh?

Rugby league players are no bigger or smaller its just that these big union forwards would not be fit enough to play in the NRL (Australian Rugby League) because unlike union its non stop and they wouldnt get a chance to rest.

@@user-bi8wp6wy3l lol...ok.

Then once you get the hang of rugby union go and have a look at Australian rules football which is more like Gaelic football and is totally insane

And comparing their wounds and scars.

It was my wife's cousin, Toks van Der Linde...he got a ban for that.

Rugby league is rugby union on steroids.

Rugby Union is a game played by poor little rich kids in private schools rugby league is played by the working class - at least here in Australia anyhow.