Other football codes

Black Wizard said:
@Niall Kielt @srfc are you having a good St. Patty's Day?
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Id say so. Even Australia and South Africa don't intimidate as much as they used to and we have beaten the Kiwis once and gone close on other occasions recently(Argentina are a different matter!). There's legitimate hope of a great World Cup. I wouldn't say that it extends to confidence that we should win it but people certainly expect to get beyond the quarter finals next year.
 
Niall Kielt said:
Id say so. Even Australia and South Africa don't intimidate as much as they used to and we have beaten the Kiwis once and gone close on other occasions recently(Argentina are a different matter!). There's legitimate hope of a great World Cup. I wouldn't say that it extends to confidence that we should win it but people certainly expect to get beyond the quarter finals next year.
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Saw the final moments of that win against the All Blacks on an awful quality stream, don't think I'll ever forget it nevertheless. And I only said northern hemisphere cause I don't want to jinx it, can't wait for the World Cup.
 
Black Wizard said:
How does a Bulgarian become a fan of Rugby and Gaelic Football anyway?
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Was interested in football codes different from soccer since I was a kid, believe it or not. In the 80s, you could get The Times here in Sofia (with a delay of a few days obviously), and my dad used to buy it for me from time to time to boost my English lessons. That's when I discovered Rugby, and the difference between Union and League. Learned about Gaelic Football later, and hadn't seen an actual game until Eurosport showed a (recorded) game in the 2000s.

And I'm happy to say that, unlike many other sports, the first Rugby games I saw were not on TV but at the stadium, Bulgaria vs Andorra in 1988 and Bulgaria vs Luxembourg next year I think.
 
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