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18 hours ago, JBFC II said:

Having played both sports myself, I found rugby to be much more demanding physically and technically. To kick an oval shaped ball into a certain area from your hands is much harder than to kick a round shaped ball from the ground, that's obvious. And kicking is only 15% of rugby, whereas it is 95% of football, hence making rugby more skilful 

With a circular ball, would love to see him do the same with an oval... 

With all due respect, the fact you found rugby more demanding physically and technically is probably more to do with your attributes. Dropping a ball, no matter what shape onto your running foot and kicking it into an area of a pitch, is not quite the same as passing a ball accurately to another person who might or might not be moving at a different rate, baring in mind they have to be able to collect that ball, usually with their feet. In rugby there are probably seven of the fifteen players that rarely touch the ball during a game. 

Using percentages as you have to so say prove a point, has actually backfired on you. You state that kicking an oval ball is difficult (it aint) and state that it's only 15% of the game, so obviously the rest of the game (85%) is played using your hands, the most dexterous limbs you have. Yet kicking a round ball is easy and 95% of football. Were you an England international footballer?

Do me a favour, pick up a rugby ball and run across a pitch with it in your hands. Then run across the same pitch with a football, but using your feet.

I used to play Sunday football with a couple of Clifton Rugby first teamers, it wasn't a high standard but, they both couldn't take the amount of running during a football game 90 mins plus, compared to the constant rests they got in a rugby game of 80 mins.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking rugby, it has certain skills obviously, such as the passing (using your hands) and catching (using your hands) but those skills pale into insignificance when compared to using your feet predominantly, to collect and move a ball, accurately from one person to another, at great speed while someone else is trying to stop that happening, then you have to try and get it into a relatively small net, which has someone that can use their hands to stop you. A bit different than carrying a ball over a 80+ yard wide line or, kicking it between two posts with no giant there to stop the ball.

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On 15/08/2018 at 18:30, Red-Robbo said:

Lansdown joins Bristol City board 1996 and became chairman and majority owner within 5 years.

He bought the rugby club in 2012, and has invested nowhere near as much.

I don't see him as being "rugby first" at all.

Has he been here that long?

Good grief, that’s a lot of windows 

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There's a lot of nonsense in this thread and no doubt the gas(?) poster that started this is laughing as ignorant, toxic argumenrs rein supreme. Athletes at the top of sports like soccer, rugby union, rugby league, American football, and so on are all roughly equally skilled in their specialist fields. One isn't outright more skilful than the other.

That said Bristol RFC played a game versus Rovers in 03/04, one half touch union and one half soccer. Bristol won the rugby and drew with the gas at football. No idea what division they were in then but that should demonstrate that professional rugby players were skilful then and the game in general has got even more so since those days.

Stop giving the OP what they wanted.?

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