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At a bloody swindon game, Get behind the team

shut up

I agree 100 %.

Some fool in the winners asked to put the rugby on.

yup thought it was fucking gay.

I expect if it wasnt the world cup or whatever 95% of the people chanting wouldnt have given a flying fuck.

Egg chasing bastards...

Ruggers is the greatest so up yours 8)

was the topical nature of the chanting missed by most?

yr is right  8)

Anyone would think we'd just beat the Aussies or something.

Why sing anti Oxford songs when we are playing the pikeys, it's gay.

Rugby is a middle class sport, who cares.

Fair play I thought, and that's coming from a plastic jock!!!

Lighten up for fucks sake.

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SWINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG LOW!

Rugby is boring

Rugby is fucking shite and has no place in football. If you want to sing rugby songs, go to a fucking rugby match. Do not sing them at Swindon please.

even after a 5-0 you lot still find something to moan about.

Swindon Fans!  :mrgreen:

I don't like rugby, but when England beat Australia, when no one thought they would, I feel it merits a song.

So to all you moaning cunts.....................Fuck off!

do behave, the people singing hardly sang a town song all game

I dunno where you were sat Bushy, but in the South Stand it was a very brief segment of 'sweet chariot', followed by a few 'Engerlands', what's the big deal?

England played in a quarter final and won (Against the odds) so of course a large portion of the crowd were just a bit chuffed.

I think you mean football fans in general

Thought it needed to be done i think, whenever we beat the Aussies in any sport it's always good. I don't really follow rugby but i have been watching the world cup, and i think it's quite good.

SWING LOW SWEET FUCKIN CHARIOT?

Town end gayers sink to new low. First we'd heard out of them all game.

nearly as bad as 'you're gonna get your fucking head kicked in' :roll:

'Youre gonna get your fuckin head kicked in' is a lot of things, Martin. But gay is not one of them.

Agreed.

I can't watch Rugby because I get an overwhelming feeling that I need to shoot myself in the face, but I thought it was a nice touch yesterday. It actually raised the mood of the crowd.

To be fair, things did get better after that, but I wondered if it was because x amount of people were listening on their headsets. I suppose you win some, you loose some. That QPR game in 03 was brilliant cos most of the crowd had been on it to watch the rugby world cup final, made for a great atmosphere later.

Always been a bit of a football fascist when it came to rugby. Just dont think football and rugby go together. If you want to like rugby, thats a different crowd, a different set of people.

My local have wars between punters during rugby matches on tv. Some want to watch football, some rugby.

Football will always be our national sport.

I don't see the problem with it. I'm not really a rugby fan but I have no problem in acknowledging an English sports team doing well and beating a side against the odds - particularly the aussies.

I really dont get what some of you are moaning about.
I do not like rugby, never have. Therefore i was not singing (doesn't mean im not pleased for them) why should others not breifly celebrate with song when the final score came through... and as i hear it was the same at most football matches across the country.

Because rugby and football are supposed to hate each other.

Always used to be that way. Too many tossers infitrating football when they should be watching rugby.

are they? :shock:

i don't hate any other sport, some are a bit shit but i just ignore them.

To me that sounds like elitist nonsense that will keep attendances down due to unwelcoming attitudes.

I agree

fight fight fight!

For the Preimer league thats probably true,but not Swindon.

How joyless can you get moaning about a few bars of Swing low when England have just won,its beyond petty :roll:  Besides which not everyone was aware we'd won,know i wasn't until i heard the singing,so personally i'd like to thank the singers :D

You should check your phone more often  :wink:

winge winge winge.  I'm middle class so I guess I should fuck off and watch the rugby. Although Somehow its ok to like Cricket and football?

And as for complaining about having it on in the winners, I'd rather watch England play the Aussies in a world cup 1/4 final than Man U predictably steamroller Wigan in a fairly meaningless premiership game.

In future I'll try to act like I'm on benifits, have 35 kids and like fighting so I can fit in with a streotype of a football fan that died in the 80's  :wanker:

I l0ove the Rugby, admittedly not as much as football but so what if they sang a Rugby song?  hardly the end of the world is it.

If we had been playing the likes of Swansea then I doubt any of you would be complaining.

Agreed.

Damn .. Id have stayed if I had known .. they had bloody Man U on in there! So decided to head for the CGH where I saw the first half!

We have and will never die  :x

ha ha ha, benefits are not what most claim, most earn a good wage and use the saturday as a release from the usual 9-5 job they have

I heard that ....shock horror.... some people like BOTH! rugby and football the crazy fools!

To be fair my little rant above was probally over the top, monday morning and all that. Big love all round :mrgreen:

Shut upo im watching Trisha while smoking

You can do two things at once??  :wink:

You remember soapy tit wank

rugby = cunts!

Nicely put gazza, where were you friday night? You and jukes called me between 2 and 3am, pissed up fools

Fucking hell, I kind of expect the Rugby Union/Rugby League rivalry, but don't get this anti rugby attitude from football fans.  Why can't people accept that there are people who like both sports.

It's like you've got some sort of chip on your shoulder.  Blaming a class divide, what out dated bollocks.

I aggree - it's a lot like the ski or snowboard debate - who gives a shit which you like, or even if you like both?

My comment about Rugby being a middle class sport was a joke.

Personally i think it's bloody boring but if others like it then fair do's.

one of my mates who is a big rugby fan reckons that in general.......

football is a gentlemens sport followed by hooligans
and
rugby is a hooligans sport followed by gentlemen

im not suggesting anybody is a hooligan (or a gentlemen for that manner :P ) but you dont often get trouble at a rugby game do you? apart from on the pitch maybe

I know Im a dinosaur. But I dont care.

Just 15 years ago most people in the UK HATED football. HATED! Its funny how everyone accepts that the game is over commercialised and gone mad with money, no soul etc. No one wants to be the person who put it there, the johnny come lately, yet everyone knows they exist. I mean, how can Cheltenham support a football league team?! Cheltenham!!! FFS.

Traditionally the reason you didnt like both sports was because football and rugby are both winter sports. So you were forced to choose, whereas cricket is a summer sport.

Its different for jocks, because they just want any excuse to have a go at the English (I might have a chip on my shoulder, but Il show you a chip a thousand times bigger!  :wink: ). But the Welsh are even more divided than us, where did those 60,000 fans come from when they had a sniff at WC qualification? Then they dissapeared again, just as quickly, because they dont like football really. Just like grounds in the top flight are full today are full of people who dont like football that much. Just something for the plebs to do. Cricket is trying the same formula - how can we get people who dont like cricket to like cricket??? Hmm, I know, Twenty20!!!!

If everyone on here likes rugby, then for me thats another shovel of earth on the grave of English football culture. Im 'FUCK OFF RUGBY' and Im proud of it.   :mrgreen:

I like most sports as long as the result isn't judged by cunts giving marks for artistic impression.  Grand Prix, Golf, Tennis (Wimbledon only) Rugby(internationals only), athletics(world and olympics only), cycling(Tour de France only).  But football was my first love and it will be my last.

i don't really like any sports but football and cricket.

i'm quite pleased england beat australia in the rugby simply because they're australians and we're english.

I prefer League to Union. I am happy France beat the cheating NZ though. I'll watch it if the moment takes me.

Rugby towns who have grown shit loads of fans in the last 10 years.

Hull City. Average 1995-96 - 3,803. Average 2006-07 - 16,534
Cardiff City. Average 1995-96 - 3,295. Average 2006-07 - 15,047
Bristol City. Average 1995-96 - 7,038. Average 2006-07 - 15,338
Swansea City. Average 1995-96 - 2,979. Average 2006-07 - 12,340
Wigan. Average 1995-96 - 2,856. Average 2006-07 - 20,610
Cheltenham Town Average 1995-96 about 0. Average 2006-07 - 4,379

Not to mention, Plymouth, Fulham, Reading, Yeovil etc. Rant over etc.

i bet they really hate johnny wilkinson in australia.