Unan Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 So England are in another Rugby World Cup final where they are considered big favourites and likely to land a second world cup in 16 years. England also this year finally won the Cricket World Cup for the first time ever. In fact since 1966, England have qualified for 19 different tournaments (10 WC's and 9 Euro's) and haven't even made ONE single bloody final. In contrast in this same time period, England have made FOUR Rugby World Cup finals, winning at least one, possibly two, and FOUR Cricket World Cup Finals, winning one. Any reason? Is the Anglo-saxon mindset more suited to tactical and strategic sports rather than sports involving creativity and flair like Football which latin countries have often gotten the better of them at? The differences in success is quite stark between Football and Rugby/Cricket is quite stark, I'm just curious as the reasons for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 Because far fewer countries play international rugby union and cricket perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unan Posted November 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 The Premier League is a victim of its own success, flooded with the best talent in the world. Much harder now for English players to be first choice at the top clubs, and the Champions League is the highest level in Europe. Money drives football now, pride drives rugby & **** knows why people still play cricket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 7 minutes ago, chinapig said: Because far fewer countries play international rugby union and cricket perhaps? Spot on mate - over 200 footballing countries are affiliated to FIFA and over 50 are affiliated to UEFA 12 minutes ago, Seneca the Younger said: So England are in another Rugby World Cup final where they are considered big favourites and likely to land a second world cup in 16 years. England also this year finally won the Cricket World Cup for the first time ever. In fact since 1966, England have qualified for 19 different tournaments (10 WC's and 9 Euro's) and haven't even made ONE single bloody final. In contrast in this same time period, England have made FOUR Rugby World Cup finals, winning at least one, possibly two, and FOUR Cricket World Cup Finals, winning one. Any reason? Is the Anglo-saxon mindset more suited to tactical and strategic sports rather than sports involving creativity and flair like Football which latin countries have often gotten the better of them at? The differences in success is quite stark between Football and Rugby/Cricket is quite stark, I'm just curious as the reasons for that. Bit of a naive post with all due respect - not nearly as much serious competition when it comes to rugby and cricket 3 minutes ago, Seneca the Younger said: The Premier League is a victim of its own success, flooded with the best talent in the world. Much harder now for English players to be first choice at the top clubs, and the Champions League is the highest level in Europe. Money drives football now, pride drives rugby & **** knows why people still play cricket. ....your last seven words - there are a lot worse ways to make a living? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinmans Love Child Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 It’s alL down to the amount of decent teams at International level for football compared to cricket and rugby. In rugby you only really have England, Wales, Ireland, SA, Australia and New Zealand who realistically have a chance. In cricket you only have England, SA, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan,Sri Lanka and West Indies. In football you have England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal to start with just in Europe, let alone Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Mexico, Uruguay etc etc Theres a good book called ‘Why England Don’t Win the World Cup’ which shows that actually we do pretty well at International level when you take into account the size of the country and some other factors https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-England-Lose-phenomena-explained/dp/0007301111 Plus In rugby and cricket, the structure is geared towards international competition, unlike the football structure which is geared towards money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS15_RED Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 Because the structures from both the RFU and ECB are towards creating successful national teams. In Football, the Premier League is now all too powerful, and the national team is little more than an inconvenience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokey Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 13 minutes ago, Seneca the Younger said: The Premier League is a victim of its own success, flooded with the best talent in the world. Much harder now for English players to be first choice at the top clubs, and the Champions League is the highest level in Europe. Money drives football now, pride drives rugby & **** knows why people still play cricket. The premier league has nothing to do with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lrrr Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 15 minutes ago, Seneca the Younger said: Money drives football now, pride drives rugby I'm sure its pride as to why lots of Brits go and play rugby in France making themselves unavailable for national team selection.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsince1994 Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 24 minutes ago, Seneca the Younger said: So England are in another Rugby World Cup final where they are considered big favourites and likely to land a second world cup in 16 years. England also this year finally won the Cricket World Cup for the first time ever. In fact since 1966, England have qualified for 19 different tournaments (10 WC's and 9 Euro's) and haven't even made ONE single bloody final. In contrast in this same time period, England have made FOUR Rugby World Cup finals, winning at least one, possibly two, and FOUR Cricket World Cup Finals, winning one. Any reason? Is the Anglo-saxon mindset more suited to tactical and strategic sports rather than sports involving creativity and flair like Football which latin countries have often gotten the better of them at? The differences in success is quite stark between Football and Rugby/Cricket is quite stark, I'm just curious as the reasons for that. Last 4 world cups won by France, Germany, Spain & Italy. European countries have dominance in the modern era, and 3 of them aren't exactly renowned for being flair sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS15_RED Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 1 minute ago, hodge said: I'm sure its pride as to why lots of Brits go and play rugby in France making themselves unavailable for national team selection.... Name them? Or by Brits, do you mean Scottish, Irish or Welsh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinmans Love Child Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 18 minutes ago, Seneca the Younger said: The Premier League is a victim of its own success, flooded with the best talent in the world. Much harder now for English players to be first choice at the top clubs, and the Champions League is the highest level in Europe. Money drives football now, pride drives rugby & **** knows why people still play cricket. We were not winning world cups for nearly 30 years before the premier league came along which was also a time when there were hardly any foreign players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 2 minutes ago, redsince1994 said: Last 4 world cups won by France, Germany, Spain & Italy. European countries have dominance in the modern era, and 3 of them aren't exactly renowned for being flair sides. Err... Germany were very dominant in game I mean for a number of years- tiki Taka and high scoring, high pressing under Low for some time. Spain we know about, France are a weird one- have the players to dominate all with the exception of peak Spain possibly, Italy are the lack of flair one but tbh had the players to play much better football over the years IMO- and actually were lazily typecast at times- they were pretty good to watch in Euro 2012 and WC 2006- Lippi not a defensive manager, Prandelli too and Mancini with them atm most definitely not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lrrr Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 Just now, BS15_RED said: Name them? Or by Brits, do you mean Scottish, Irish or Welsh? Its changed a bit in recent years but Cipriani moved abroad, Steffon Armitage when he was considered England's best flanker, Abendanon was european player of the year playing abroad not selected. Then you have the Welsh, Scots and Irish etc. 'Both men may be in the form of their life but the Rugby Football Union's current selection policy means the France-based pair are currently ineligible to represent the national team, bar "exceptional circumstances" which were not met.' https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/32626996 Players were being paid far more for moving abroad but making themselves ineligible rather than staying in Britain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swanker Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 33 minutes ago, chinapig said: Because far fewer countries play international rugby union and cricket perhaps? Other countries seem to win it though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 I predict it will all change in the next decade; England will dominate in Football. Gareth has started something quite special and he has riches previous managers could only dream about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Northski Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 Darn, some people are hard to satisfy. We got to semi finals of the last Football World Cup. That’s pretty good We currently hold the Cricket World Cup. We may win Rugby World Cup tomorrow We came second in the Olympic medal table at the last Summer Olympics. Personally pretty pleased with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinmans Love Child Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 6 minutes ago, swanker said: Other countries seem to win it though! Germany, Italy, Spain and Brazil aren’t also winning rugby world cups and test matches are they. We are more successful in rugby and cricket because there are less decent sides. The other decent sides in rugby and cricket don’t do anything in footballing terms, so we are actually battling on 3 fronts which is pretty impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 45 minutes ago, Seneca the Younger said: So England are in another Rugby World Cup final where they are considered big favourites and likely to land a second world cup in 16 years. England also this year finally won the Cricket World Cup for the first time ever. In fact since 1966, England have qualified for 19 different tournaments (10 WC's and 9 Euro's) and haven't even made ONE single bloody final. In contrast in this same time period, England have made FOUR Rugby World Cup finals, winning at least one, possibly two, and FOUR Cricket World Cup Finals, winning one. Any reason? Is the Anglo-saxon mindset more suited to tactical and strategic sports rather than sports involving creativity and flair like Football which latin countries have often gotten the better of them at? The differences in success is quite stark between Football and Rugby/Cricket is quite stark, I'm just curious as the reasons for that. It's pretty simple really - a lot more countries play Football than Rugby or Cricket so there is less competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 5 minutes ago, Lord Northski said: Darn, some people are hard to satisfy. We got to semi finals of the last Football World Cup. That’s pretty good We currently hold the Cricket World Cup. We may win Rugby World Cup tomorrow We came second in the Olympic medal table at the last Summer Olympics. Personally pretty pleased with that. That’s just the type of attitude that holds us back . Second is nowhere. Although it can mostly be found between first and third . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 Because English football has been very different to European football and world football over the years. So what works over here in the prem, did not work when those players put on the england shirt. And they could not adapt. But then there has been the tactical side too, which has been embarrassing over the years. So many tournaments we played 442 with as many star names as possible. The likes of Gerrard and Lampard holding, and the nation confused as to why they aren't the same for England as they were for their clubs. Pretty obvious when Gerrard had Alonso and Macherano behind him, he was not really a midfielder, more a second striker behind Torres. And Lampard had Makelele and Essien sitting behind him. Used to amaze me that england managers were paid millions a year and could not even see these most basic of things. Carrick barely played for England. Or certainly was not involved much in tournaments. A top technical defensive midfielder, Guardiola even said he was as good as any he managed including Busquets. But our media loved goalscoring midfielders and it seems our managers believed we had to squeeze these attacking midielders into the same side. The nation seemed to think Michael Owen was brilliant because he could score goals. Heskey rubbish because he didn't score goals. But then you take Heskey away and Owen would have been pretty useless. It's like we had 2 people doing one mans job up there as both were not complete strikers. Obviously Rooney came along. Never got the best out of him. But when it was time to drop him and he was awful in at least 2 major tounaments, we still wouldn't, or even bring him off because he's the star player. But it does seem to have got to a point where we have finally caught up with the other nations in producing talent. I thought Southgate actually got the world cup so wrong, and I still wonder if he will ever be the right man. There is some concerning decisions he makes at times. To stand there arms folded seeing Croatia clearly about to score a winner, only a matter of time, and to do nothing about it. It's not what a top manager would do. We didn't beat any top nation at the world cup. We looked pretty awful in both Belgium games and after first 45 of Croatia game where they sussed us out at half time. We did however do well in that nations league before Southgate messed it up against Holland. So he did well in a couple of games at least. I do think the young players we are producing now are really up there with the best in the world. Our attacking talent is ridiculous. We really should win something soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Northski Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 2 minutes ago, Major Isewater said: That’s just the type of attitude that holds us back . Second is nowhere. Although it can mostly be found between first and third . Fair point Major Kind regards Captain Northski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natchfever Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 33 minutes ago, BS15_RED said: Name them? Or by Brits, do you mean Scottish, Irish or Welsh? Has beens go to France to play in the Top 14. Good has beens but has beens nevertheless in terms of international selection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murraysrightplum Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 21 football world cups won by 8 countries 9 rugby world cups have been won by 4 countries (including 2019 as SA and england have already won it) Looks pretty even in terms of how many teams can actually win it. If you looked at how many teams will have won the RWC in another 40 years it’s likely that Wales, France, Ireland and maybe some up and coming teams would have won it as well. At the super-elite level it doesn’t really matter how many worse teams there are than you. Look at the number of premier league winners as another example. Would it change much if suddenly 10 championship teams were let into the competition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinmans Love Child Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 14 minutes ago, JonDolman said: Because English football has been very different to European football and world football over the years. So what works over here in the prem, did not work when those players put on the england shirt. And they could not adapt. But then there has been the tactical side too, which has been embarrassing over the years. So many tournaments we played 442 with as many star names as possible. The likes of Gerrard and Lampard holding, and the nation confused as to why they aren't the same for England as they were for their clubs. Pretty obvious when Gerrard had Alonso and Macherano behind him, he was not really a midfielder, more a second striker behind Torres. And Lampard had Makelele and Essien sitting behind him. Used to amaze me that england managers were paid millions a year and could not even see these most basic of things. Carrick barely played for England. Or certainly was not involved much in tournaments. A top technical defensive midfielder, Guardiola even said he was as good as any he managed including Busquets. But our media loved goalscoring midfielders and it seems our managers believed we had to squeeze these attacking midielders into the same side. The nation seemed to think Michael Owen was brilliant because he could score goals. Heskey rubbish because he didn't score goals. But then you take Heskey away and Owen would have been pretty useless. It's like we had 2 people doing one mans job up there as both were not complete strikers. Obviously Rooney came along. Never got the best out of him. But when it was time to drop him and he was awful in at least 2 major tounaments, we still wouldn't, or even bring him off because he's the star player. But it does seem to have got to a point where we have finally caught up with the other nations in producing talent. I thought Southgate actually got the world cup so wrong, and I still wonder if he will ever be the right man. There is some concerning decisions he makes at times. To stand there arms folded seeing Croatia clearly about to score a winner, only a matter of time, and to do nothing about it. It's not what a top manager would do. We didn't beat any top nation at the world cup. We looked pretty awful in both Belgium games and after first 45 of Croatia game where they sussed us out at half time. We did however do well in that nations league before Southgate messed it up against Holland. So he did well in a couple of games at least. I do think the young players we are producing now are really up there with the best in the world. Our attacking talent is ridiculous. We really should win something soon. Some good points but not sure how Southgate got the World Cup so wrong, they made the semi’s with a very young and inexperienced team, if he would have got it wrong we wouldn’t have made it out the groups like in the Euros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 7 minutes ago, Tinmans Love Child said: Some good points but not sure how Southgate got the World Cup so wrong, they made the semi’s with a very young and inexperienced team, if he would have got it wrong we wouldn’t have made it out the groups like in the Euros Yes better than the euros. Can't get much worse! But for me when you see the talent we had, i believe we only really beat teams we really should be beating. And one of those was on pens. I think when it came down to the Croatia match that was certainly winnable, he didn't manage the situation second half at all well and just waited for us to lose the game. Had we had a fairly normal series of matches, and not had the incredible luck of the games we had, then I believe we'd have certainly have lost against any tough side we played before the semi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS15_RED Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 49 minutes ago, hodge said: Its changed a bit in recent years but Cipriani moved abroad, Steffon Armitage when he was considered England's best flanker, Abendanon was european player of the year playing abroad not selected. Then you have the Welsh, Scots and Irish etc. 'Both men may be in the form of their life but the Rugby Football Union's current selection policy means the France-based pair are currently ineligible to represent the national team, bar "exceptional circumstances" which were not met.' https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/32626996 Players were being paid far more for moving abroad but making themselves ineligible rather than staying in Britain Spot on, but to further prove my point, the French national team since the influx of foreign players has declined considerably in the last 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boston Red Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 Because the Football Association is stuffy, and badly run. They cannot appoint, get the best out of, and keep a decent manager. Clough was never given the job, even though he specialised in building an eleven, relaxing players, and European knock-out tournament football. Robson, Venables, and Hoddle were all good ar the job but lost it for essentially non - football reasons. Errikson was booted out when he wanted to stay and his successor Maclaren was worse, as Taylor was worse than Robson. They gave Capello the job when he could not speak English. They appointed stuffy old Hodgson when they should have appointed Redknapp. It just goes on and on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swanker Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Tinmans Love Child said: Germany, Italy, Spain and Brazil aren’t also winning rugby world cups and test matches are they. I’ve often wondered why those countries you’ve mentioned do well in the World Cup and now I know. It’s because they don’t play rugby and cricket as well. Well I never, the older I’m getting the more I learn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 2 hours ago, chinapig said: Because far fewer countries play international rugby union and cricket perhaps? It's also worth noting that England cricketers are centrally contracted to the ECB so international cricket takes priority. In rugby union the England coach gets more time with the players than his football equivalent, there being something of a truce for now between the clubs and the RFU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinmans Love Child Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 56 minutes ago, swanker said: I’ve often wondered why those countries you’ve mentioned do well in the World Cup and now I know. It’s because they don’t play rugby and cricket as well. Well I never, the older I’m getting the more I learn! The original post was stating why we do well in cricket and rugby but not football compared to other countries, just stating a fact about those sports, chill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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