Why are people arguing about the way they train? They probably train completely different now in 2011 having new coaches and better equipment. this video is from 2007......AKA the past..get over it
I don't know much about football... all I have to say is that I knew a guy who came down to Australia on exchange from the US. He was an American football player when he came, but he dropped it and became a rugby fanatic within the few months he was here. I can't really see that happening the other way around... o.O
@murrrrrray ur right, I'm american and am a fan of american football but switched from AM football to rugby my 1st year in highschool/secondary school (15 yrs old) and its so much fun.
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Can i look at a single youtube video of rugby without the standard "american football players are pussies because they wear pads"/ "american football player are bigger, faster stronger etc" comments being thrown around. Ive played american footballers when an american team toured ireland, they were shit and out of gas after 5 minutes. Likewise, i wouldnt have a clue what to do if i played football, but conditioned to a different sport fo which the pads are needed. End of retard discussion
sit down and acknowledge that you yanks need 2 seperate teams, attack and defence, to play a game decently and that you require stops every 2 seconds a) because your linebackers would not have a hope in hell of running for 80 minutes and b) because the game is so unstrateigic you have to break it up.
in rugby our guys run for 90% of a game, and most of their running is done at a sprint. we play a proper strategy, utilising tactics to systematically break down defences over attrition
shall we talk about tackle technique? any idiot can torpedo themselves head first into someone whilst wearing a thick plastic helmet. rugby players tackle properly, with arms and shoulders.
the physical toll a football match takes on a player is a mere fraction compared to the constant brutality of a comparatively non-stop game of attritional rugby.
the reason why no other country wants to play AF is because they want to play exciting and demanding sports instead. case closed
@GoldenbanjoDJ You are absolutely clueless when it comes to football. Im not saying rugby is any easier than football, both have aspects that make one harder than the other, but to say it doesn't take a toll on the body? people have died in training for football, when was the last time you saw that in rugby? Id really like to know that, not being a smartass there. Pads dont help in big hits as most pads dont cover ribs, they stop just below the armpit. Recovering after a football game is brutal.
No, I said it doesn't take a fraction of the toll. That's not saying it doesn't take a toll, it's just that rugby takes much more of a toll. People have died in rugby! People have been paralysed into wheelchairs and killed in collapsed scrums! Come on, if you're a running back get hit about three times in a whole football game. In rugby you're getting hit and making hits all the time, no team swapping for attack/defence.
@GoldenbanjoDJ football players hit and get hit way more than three times, with the exception of maybe a gay ass quaterback. Offensive and defensive lineman are always hitting each other, every play. Everytime the whistle blows, the majority of the plaers are getting hit the whole play, bot just a breif hit. Ive watched rugby and for the most part its the same few dudes getting hit while the others watch idely by.
okay im american, i p[lay both sports, but i started with rugby...
if a rugby team tried playing football, they would have no idea what to do, the o lines would get constant holding penalties. they wouldent switch off between offence and defence. they would lose .. miserably, but they would problably would get a few field goals after someone explained 4th down to them
I'm all for Ireland and a fan of rugby, but nothing compares to American football. The best and biggest athletes on earth play football. There is too much strategy and precision involved with football for a rugby player who has not played football their entire life to compete with a NFL player. The NFL linemen would be too big and overpowering, which would allow the American football teams to run/throw the ball all over the field.
@Wexicanful It's closer to a break every 5 seconds(from what i've seen).
Really makes the game dull by doing that. Anytime a player gets tackled the game stops and so does the excitment. But in Rugby a player is tackled and the game continues, the players get up and continues, non of this stop, start thing. Now obviously for an american who grows up with NFL always on there tv or whatever, they are bound to fall in love with the sport. But for an outsider looking in... the game is kinda boring.
@Jake676767jm Your'e right, it is 2 diffrent games.I'am a south african and i do play rugby.South Africa is 2time world champs.American football is hard but, there is so much padding & saftey gear, you just can't compaire it to Rugby. Play also stops in Football after the ball carrier has been tackled.So you don't have to be that fit.Rugby is so much more a physical game then American Football.There's a SA rugby legend Naas Botha who also played for the Dallas Cowboys.He easly fitted in football
@faniefigo I respect the game of rugby and rugby players but I think you are misinterpreting the game of football. Football players wear shoulder pads and helmets and that's about it. Football is the most violent game in the world, partly due to the padding that players wear. As a matter of fact, there are currently talks going on right now around the NFL about eliminating helmets because players are increasingly using them as weapons.
@faniefigo Naas Botha attempted to try and play place kicker in American football, however he was unsuccessful and returned to rugby. in case you did not know placekicker is a joke of a football position, no physical ability needed whatsoever. in terms of athletic measurables no athletes beat american football players. search taylor mays and you'll see an elite althelte who weighs 104.5 kilos and runs 40 yards in 4.24 seconds.
@SupremeSaenz how about you search Pierre Spies who weighs the same but can run 100m in 10.5 seconds, or maybe Jonah Lomu who weighs 113kg and runs 100m in 10.8 seconds, he is also probably the hardest rugby player to stop.
@lordi I realise that, but they're still hitting it like retards. An hours lesson with a boxer would do wonders for increasing the level of cardio they could achieve by doing it right. It's not rocket science.
Brill video. I loved the coachs approach - 'clarity of thought under pressure' - I think it is really important to develop athletes (in any sport) mentally as well as physically, as empowering them to think lets them analyse their own performance rather than have the coach hand-holding all the time.
And fair enough, they can't swim or box so well (although I wouldn't like to be hit by them!) but I don't think swimmers would do so well in rugby! Horses for courses ;-)
Bubbalover you talk about how a rugby player couldn't make it into an NFL team without conditioning......what a load of horsesh*t......you bring up facts on defensive players who 90% are designed to be big fat lardasses.... How about offensive players....and you lost speed??? Yeh nice one
look at the state of them hitting the bags and swimming. teach them the correct way to punch and the correct swimstroke otherwise they're not getting the best out of that training
@0oPadmano0 listen, cop on? its simple to teach them how to swim correctly and how to hit a bag. whats the point otherwise? they r professional athletes, they ought to train correctly..
@Mollyrules1 they are one of the best teams in the world.You cant criticise them when they are clearly more successful than you.While they are training you're at home commenting on youtube videos like myself.
@0oPadmano0 if thet knew how to throw an uppercut i think they would be more effective against SA at scrummaging for eg. or even that movement, if they practised it, could be used [not just for throwing punches] Ur missing my point. A rugby player could only be more effective if he was accomplished at boxing too - he would hardly be worse
@0oPadmano0 and I'm not criticising them, I am a fan, which is why I am critical of that training which could be improved. Are they training now? No. Me neither
@nenshati19. If your talking about american football, your terribly wrong. I love rugby, but to take a team of ireland rugby players who have never played American football and pit them against even a college team, they would be beat. The same would go for a team of american footballers against the irish rugby team.
This is a video about Irish Rugby, why oh why is NFL mentioned. Americans think they're the best at everything, and when they aren't they cry about it and call the sport stupid or compare it to an American sport.
Also why do they call Football Soccer, it's not Soccer. What do you think FIFA stands for? It's a sport where you can't use your hands.
So why do American Football just Football, it isn't, look at where the sport was first established - England.
I realize rugby players are the hardest fucks in european sports but if they were to play football against an American professional team they would be destroyed physically and in score. If an American football team was to play rugby against the All Blacks they would get their asses handed to them on the field when it comes to the score board but I think would be alright otherwise. I dont think you realize just how strong and athletic you have to be to play in the NFL.
@GoldenBears4Ever Realistically man - their pretty much the same physically. They both require great upper body strenght and strong legs, unlike in soccer where the emphasis is on the legs.
@dadubs93 If football there is more specialization and therefore more emphasis on certain attributes based on position. In rugby, everyone needs to be at a certain level of cardio vascular fitness and certain level of strength because they will all have to run for most of the game and will all have to routinely make tackles. A typical lineman in the NFL can squat more than 600 lbs; how many forwards can do that? That said, most forwards probably wouldnt have trouble running a 7 minutes mile..
@GoldenBears4Ever Haha that was forwards before the professional era in the 1990's where being fat and heavy would guarantee you a forward's place in the props. Today a prop needs to be almost all muscle, mainly in the chest and shoulder's, and almost certainly all props/ forwards can squat well over 200 KG.
@dadubs93 Not sure what you're saying here...i think you're validating my point. A forward has to be able to run for a full game (aka not fat) and should have no trouble squatting 200KG aka 440 lbs...that's not a lot of weight. An offensive lineman in football will not be able to run for nearly as long a time or distance but will be significantly stronger because that is what the position calls for. Check out the lifting videos of football linemen and see what they clean...scary.
@GoldenBears4Ever I don't think you realise just how physically strong professional rugby players are these days. Different shape and skill set to many NFL players but seriously, they're no less powerful
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ya im addicted to rugby it's so much fun to watch although not when people get hurt and suffer in pain=[ , but other then that haha! we still have next year for the grand slam 2011??!! xx xClontarfGirlx xxx
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Haha, the final shot at the end - everyone on a boat...thinking about it, it'd be pretty bad-ass if the team would've sailed from Ireland to the Portuguese training camp. I guess DOC (that's who's in the pool, right?) could've tried to swim there if he likes it so much...
I wish a team like Ireland came to America and faced one of their best football teams in a nice game of football. American would prob wake up to the fact that they don't watch real sports once they get a beating by a team that doesnt even play football.
No, that would not be the case, because when your talking about American Football, you have different rules which don't apply to rugby, and also USA has fifty times more talented people in contact sports than any other country. Another reason is because the set up of football, your goal is to make the most yards in a short period of time, in rugby you try to make the ball active for the longest period of time till you make a point.
"and also USA has fifty times more talented people in contact sports than any other country" < thats just plain wrong, talent isnt about how big you are or how much you can bench, its about the "top four inches" and putting what you know into practice.
@kaikumataka the point is to score, keeping the ball alive is not the object of the game, it's the result of having a game organised around fitness skill and talent. Less stoppage, more dynamic and unpredictable gameplay. There are tactics but you also have to think on your feet, ball in hand. Having some 'roid monkey run around in a cage hitting whoever, with or without the ball for 2 and 3 min intervals hardly counts as talent. It may be spectacular to some, but talent? Not in my opinion.
@Nebrida23 Agreed. It's like comparing baseball and cricket. Yeah the ball is thrown and you hit it with a stick, but they're not the same. Rugby players are better at rugby than football players, football players are better at football than rugby players. Always has been and always will be.
@Nenshati19 The best rugby team in the world would get crushed, and I mean broken, bloodied, and crying, if they tried to play American football. No insult to rugby, I've played both, but it's a completely different sport. Rugby requires amazing stamina and endurance over 80 minutes and as a result the player don't have the strength, size or speed to play a sport that only requires short bursts.
Don't feel bad, an American football team wouldn't stand a chance at rugby either.
@bubbalover71 rugby players don't have size strength or speed? I am 100% sure that many professional rugby players are big, strong and fast enough to make it into an NFL team, it would simply be the skills and understanding of the game that they lack
@rmacrae91 No. Simply put, no. An NFL defensive lineman is about 300 pounds, runs about a 4.9 40 (yards, not meters) and bench presses about 450 pounds. No rugby player on earth can match those numbers.
Like I said before though, that same NFL lineman wouldn't last a half of a half playing rugby, they'd run out of gas. It's impossible, particularly for forward/linemen, to be conditioned for both. Try searching for "NFL Pro Timing Day" to see what I'm talking about.
@bubbalover71 very good, taking the biggest man as an example. I would agree with you there, it is unlikely that any rugby player has the same physical attributes as a lineman in the sense of weight to speed/power ratio. Bench press however, 450lbs (205kg) is very common, you would see a lot of players capable of this.
My argument was that there would be some rugby players who are strong,big and fast enough to play in the NFL, not that they would be the biggest and strongest players.
@rmacrae91 And I'm not saying that they could NEVER play, but they would take at least a year of conditioning for pure speed and strength while loosing some stamina and endurance. When I went from football to rugby I was clearly the best player on the pitch...for about 30 seconds. I spent the rest of the game wondering when the defense would come out and taking up space. After that I concentrated on stamina, lost about 20 pounds and some speed, but was a better rugby player.
@bubbalover71 I swear you are clueless bro. Why would you lose speed when you started playing rugby? I am hoping you didn't do this intentionally, because there are many way of training cardio specific to rugby without losing speed.
@Nenshati19 2 different games, I have played rugby and football and I can tell you that if Ireland came over here to play say the Giants they would loose horribly, its not their game. And the Giants would loose horribly to Ireland in a game of rugby.
Yes, rugby players are all around more talented, but football players are very good at their own respective jobs.
@SupremeSaenz american football is a big girls blouse of a game, I was in the states years with some of my rugby buddies years ago and we played them at their own game without their helmets bodyguard and whatever the fuck else they use to protect themselves and we wiped the floor with them, Eire abu
their minds! winning can be all in the head....remaining focused, determined, coping with incredible amounts of pressure...they are all things that can cause you to either win or lose a game...and they are all controled in the mind. i get what he means...
The bag work is for conditioning/endurance they have probably done many sets on the bag before you see these clips, plus they aren't training to be boxers so technique is irrelevant as long as they aren't injuring their arms/hands.
This seems pretty obvious to me, but you always get a few Internet Tysons criticizing.....
who saw peter stringers 2 last ditch tackles to stop mike roberts scoring today.fucking great,little man on the pitch with the biggest fuckin heart.gwan ireland
hes the welsh scrum half i think he was guna score the try to win the match if it wasnt for stringer.haha n the size of stringer makes it even better hes a legend
i was jus sayin cos i got the name wrong shit...i got nothin againt welsh people like you seem to have against the irish.i appreciate the good rugby wales play n the great players they got which makes the grand slam we got this year even more of an achievment.
yes wut o'connell is doing is wut we do we have to it the bag non stop 4 2 mins then a few seconds break 4 times and thats in between lots of def trainnig exercise's its takes alot of you as you see in o'connells face but we cant be sloppy we have to hit high and straight with power its great for endurance. the fittness of those big lads on the rugby field is very very good!
BOD: Who's on 2?
ROG: Leinster
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ComputerCoderGuy 1 week ago
0.54 is denis hickie.
exkatt 3 months ago
0:54 who is that ?
Drumderful 3 months ago
Love this..
TVXQcassies 5 months ago
Why are people arguing about the way they train? They probably train completely different now in 2011 having new coaches and better equipment. this video is from 2007......AKA the past..get over it
Cathaltreewanker 5 months ago
I don't know much about football... all I have to say is that I knew a guy who came down to Australia on exchange from the US. He was an American football player when he came, but he dropped it and became a rugby fanatic within the few months he was here. I can't really see that happening the other way around... o.O
murrrrrray 8 months ago
@murrrrrray ur right, I'm american and am a fan of american football but switched from AM football to rugby my 1st year in highschool/secondary school (15 yrs old) and its so much fun.
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N1ghtstar4 9 months ago
I'd love to get the weight and physical training the Irish team do :D
OoLenny40oO 9 months ago
Can i look at a single youtube video of rugby without the standard "american football players are pussies because they wear pads"/ "american football player are bigger, faster stronger etc" comments being thrown around. Ive played american footballers when an american team toured ireland, they were shit and out of gas after 5 minutes. Likewise, i wouldnt have a clue what to do if i played football, but conditioned to a different sport fo which the pads are needed. End of retard discussion
oman86 9 months ago
@oman86 haha amen.
kyrannosaurusrex 7 months ago
sit down and acknowledge that you yanks need 2 seperate teams, attack and defence, to play a game decently and that you require stops every 2 seconds a) because your linebackers would not have a hope in hell of running for 80 minutes and b) because the game is so unstrateigic you have to break it up.
in rugby our guys run for 90% of a game, and most of their running is done at a sprint. we play a proper strategy, utilising tactics to systematically break down defences over attrition
GoldenbanjoDJ 9 months ago
@GoldenbanjoDJ
shall we talk about tackle technique? any idiot can torpedo themselves head first into someone whilst wearing a thick plastic helmet. rugby players tackle properly, with arms and shoulders.
the physical toll a football match takes on a player is a mere fraction compared to the constant brutality of a comparatively non-stop game of attritional rugby.
the reason why no other country wants to play AF is because they want to play exciting and demanding sports instead. case closed
GoldenbanjoDJ 9 months ago
@GoldenbanjoDJ
oh, and paul o'connell would deck any footballer in a fight
GoldenbanjoDJ 9 months ago
@GoldenbanjoDJ You are absolutely clueless when it comes to football. Im not saying rugby is any easier than football, both have aspects that make one harder than the other, but to say it doesn't take a toll on the body? people have died in training for football, when was the last time you saw that in rugby? Id really like to know that, not being a smartass there. Pads dont help in big hits as most pads dont cover ribs, they stop just below the armpit. Recovering after a football game is brutal.
BodybuildinginTX 9 months ago
@BodybuildinginTX
No, I said it doesn't take a fraction of the toll. That's not saying it doesn't take a toll, it's just that rugby takes much more of a toll. People have died in rugby! People have been paralysed into wheelchairs and killed in collapsed scrums! Come on, if you're a running back get hit about three times in a whole football game. In rugby you're getting hit and making hits all the time, no team swapping for attack/defence.
GoldenbanjoDJ 9 months ago
@GoldenbanjoDJ football players hit and get hit way more than three times, with the exception of maybe a gay ass quaterback. Offensive and defensive lineman are always hitting each other, every play. Everytime the whistle blows, the majority of the plaers are getting hit the whole play, bot just a breif hit. Ive watched rugby and for the most part its the same few dudes getting hit while the others watch idely by.
BodybuildinginTX 9 months ago
okay im american, i p[lay both sports, but i started with rugby...
if a rugby team tried playing football, they would have no idea what to do, the o lines would get constant holding penalties. they wouldent switch off between offence and defence. they would lose .. miserably, but they would problably would get a few field goals after someone explained 4th down to them
captainobvious49 10 months ago
@SupremeSaenz REAL MEN DON'T WEAR PADS BUDDY
faniefigo 11 months ago
@faniefigo or helmets either!
snowman1189 11 months ago
I'm all for Ireland and a fan of rugby, but nothing compares to American football. The best and biggest athletes on earth play football. There is too much strategy and precision involved with football for a rugby player who has not played football their entire life to compete with a NFL player. The NFL linemen would be too big and overpowering, which would allow the American football teams to run/throw the ball all over the field.
LightningSiren 11 months ago
fuckin yank's !, it's rugby they're playing not that shitty, every 5 minute's a break American Football !
Wexicanful 1 year ago 10
@Wexicanful It's closer to a break every 5 seconds(from what i've seen).
Really makes the game dull by doing that. Anytime a player gets tackled the game stops and so does the excitment. But in Rugby a player is tackled and the game continues, the players get up and continues, non of this stop, start thing. Now obviously for an american who grows up with NFL always on there tv or whatever, they are bound to fall in love with the sport. But for an outsider looking in... the game is kinda boring.
MrZoneos 10 months ago
@Wexicanful every 5 seconds a break more like haha
denis1110 2 months ago
Eddie osullivan set the platform for this Irish team and is the reason why they are so good today !
J0sh131 1 year ago
@Jake676767jm Your'e right, it is 2 diffrent games.I'am a south african and i do play rugby.South Africa is 2time world champs.American football is hard but, there is so much padding & saftey gear, you just can't compaire it to Rugby. Play also stops in Football after the ball carrier has been tackled.So you don't have to be that fit.Rugby is so much more a physical game then American Football.There's a SA rugby legend Naas Botha who also played for the Dallas Cowboys.He easly fitted in football
faniefigo 1 year ago
@faniefigo I respect the game of rugby and rugby players but I think you are misinterpreting the game of football. Football players wear shoulder pads and helmets and that's about it. Football is the most violent game in the world, partly due to the padding that players wear. As a matter of fact, there are currently talks going on right now around the NFL about eliminating helmets because players are increasingly using them as weapons.
LightningSiren 11 months ago
@faniefigo Naas Botha attempted to try and play place kicker in American football, however he was unsuccessful and returned to rugby. in case you did not know placekicker is a joke of a football position, no physical ability needed whatsoever. in terms of athletic measurables no athletes beat american football players. search taylor mays and you'll see an elite althelte who weighs 104.5 kilos and runs 40 yards in 4.24 seconds.
SupremeSaenz 11 months ago
@SupremeSaenz how about you search Pierre Spies who weighs the same but can run 100m in 10.5 seconds, or maybe Jonah Lomu who weighs 113kg and runs 100m in 10.8 seconds, he is also probably the hardest rugby player to stop.
cdoyle820 10 months ago
The way they punch the bag is fucking jokes
ne0ajax 1 year ago
@ne0ajax Your grammar is a fucken joke!
icetwister24 1 year ago
@icetwister24 Are you serious? You must be joking - "fucken" - really? Please tell me you meant to do that.
ne0ajax 1 year ago
@ne0ajax
thyere not puching it to become pro boxers. it just being used as cardio element to the circuit training seeion they are doing..
lordi 1 year ago
@lordi Exactly, I dont think ne0ajax understands.
icetwister24 1 year ago
@lordi I realise that, but they're still hitting it like retards. An hours lesson with a boxer would do wonders for increasing the level of cardio they could achieve by doing it right. It's not rocket science.
ne0ajax 1 year ago
Brill video. I loved the coachs approach - 'clarity of thought under pressure' - I think it is really important to develop athletes (in any sport) mentally as well as physically, as empowering them to think lets them analyse their own performance rather than have the coach hand-holding all the time.
And fair enough, they can't swim or box so well (although I wouldn't like to be hit by them!) but I don't think swimmers would do so well in rugby! Horses for courses ;-)
ClydeRowing 1 year ago
Jesusss chrrist ROG .. not so late :L :L
JoEgArVey93 1 year ago
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JoEgArVey93 1 year ago
I think they are both good, but, no one beats wheelchair basketball players in arm strength
sanjosesharksrock 1 year ago
Bubbalover you talk about how a rugby player couldn't make it into an NFL team without conditioning......what a load of horsesh*t......you bring up facts on defensive players who 90% are designed to be big fat lardasses.... How about offensive players....and you lost speed??? Yeh nice one
bidefordrfc 1 year ago
look at the state of them hitting the bags and swimming. teach them the correct way to punch and the correct swimstroke otherwise they're not getting the best out of that training
Mollyrules1 1 year ago
@Mollyrules1 oh cop on they arent Olympic boxers or swimmers.
0oPadmano0 1 year ago
@0oPadmano0 listen, cop on? its simple to teach them how to swim correctly and how to hit a bag. whats the point otherwise? they r professional athletes, they ought to train correctly..
Mollyrules1 5 months ago
@Mollyrules1 they are one of the best teams in the world.You cant criticise them when they are clearly more successful than you.While they are training you're at home commenting on youtube videos like myself.
0oPadmano0 5 months ago
@0oPadmano0 if thet knew how to throw an uppercut i think they would be more effective against SA at scrummaging for eg. or even that movement, if they practised it, could be used [not just for throwing punches] Ur missing my point. A rugby player could only be more effective if he was accomplished at boxing too - he would hardly be worse
Mollyrules1 5 months ago
@0oPadmano0 and I'm not criticising them, I am a fan, which is why I am critical of that training which could be improved. Are they training now? No. Me neither
Mollyrules1 5 months ago
lol.. Jesus christ rog not so late. ROG and O driscoll are my favourite
Equilibr1st 1 year ago
@nenshati19. If your talking about american football, your terribly wrong. I love rugby, but to take a team of ireland rugby players who have never played American football and pit them against even a college team, they would be beat. The same would go for a team of american footballers against the irish rugby team.
vistahawk123456 1 year ago
I say Hella!
bonkersblock 1 year ago
This is a video about Irish Rugby, why oh why is NFL mentioned. Americans think they're the best at everything, and when they aren't they cry about it and call the sport stupid or compare it to an American sport.
Also why do they call Football Soccer, it's not Soccer. What do you think FIFA stands for? It's a sport where you can't use your hands.
So why do American Football just Football, it isn't, look at where the sport was first established - England.
America=2nd hand country
Gubberdy 1 year ago
@Gubberdy
baseball = cricket :)
sidewaysbrown 1 year ago
@Gubberdy Football was played by the greek with big bladders inflated as far as i know
IrishStudentVidz 1 year ago
i bloody well nu that drico shaved his underarms!!!
peyton2006 1 year ago
Wouldn't it be great if that's how they arrived to international matches - just sailed on over from across the sea...
Zitronekopf 1 year ago
@Nenshanti
I realize rugby players are the hardest fucks in european sports but if they were to play football against an American professional team they would be destroyed physically and in score. If an American football team was to play rugby against the All Blacks they would get their asses handed to them on the field when it comes to the score board but I think would be alright otherwise. I dont think you realize just how strong and athletic you have to be to play in the NFL.
GoldenBears4Ever 1 year ago
@GoldenBears4Ever Realistically man - their pretty much the same physically. They both require great upper body strenght and strong legs, unlike in soccer where the emphasis is on the legs.
dadubs93 1 year ago
@dadubs93 If football there is more specialization and therefore more emphasis on certain attributes based on position. In rugby, everyone needs to be at a certain level of cardio vascular fitness and certain level of strength because they will all have to run for most of the game and will all have to routinely make tackles. A typical lineman in the NFL can squat more than 600 lbs; how many forwards can do that? That said, most forwards probably wouldnt have trouble running a 7 minutes mile..
GoldenBears4Ever 1 year ago
@GoldenBears4Ever Haha that was forwards before the professional era in the 1990's where being fat and heavy would guarantee you a forward's place in the props. Today a prop needs to be almost all muscle, mainly in the chest and shoulder's, and almost certainly all props/ forwards can squat well over 200 KG.
dadubs93 1 year ago
@dadubs93 Not sure what you're saying here...i think you're validating my point. A forward has to be able to run for a full game (aka not fat) and should have no trouble squatting 200KG aka 440 lbs...that's not a lot of weight. An offensive lineman in football will not be able to run for nearly as long a time or distance but will be significantly stronger because that is what the position calls for. Check out the lifting videos of football linemen and see what they clean...scary.
GoldenBears4Ever 1 year ago
@GoldenBears4Ever I don't think you realise just how physically strong professional rugby players are these days. Different shape and skill set to many NFL players but seriously, they're no less powerful
tony10396861 9 months ago
cool
TheMrLisyi 1 year ago
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IRISH QUEING FOR 7YRS LOSE OUT TO IMMIGRANTS
From Nov 09 to March 2010, out of 19 council houses, allocated by Tralee council 11 went to immigrants. Many Irish people are on the housing waiting list, some waiting for 7yrs, and the houses are going to foreigners.
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This at a time when Irish children in care are being moved around in different care homes and B&B's. Some of these kids have been abused and committed suicide - they would greatly benefit from a secure council house.
waaeaa 1 year ago
a real band of brothers
wetaconce 1 year ago
Are you talking about American football or what we know as soccer?
vistahawk123456 1 year ago
Irish Rugby Montage of the past Six months with the six nations n autumn inter's on my channel / profile
dadubs93 1 year ago
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dadubs93 1 year ago
ya im addicted to rugby it's so much fun to watch although not when people get hurt and suffer in pain=[ , but other then that haha! we still have next year for the grand slam 2011??!! xx xClontarfGirlx xxx
xClontarfGirlx 1 year ago
Donncha O'Callaghan there, beating the shite out of a swimming pool.
ZZKe7 1 year ago 69
@ZZKe7 Lol I thought the same thing :L
MrM0ng 1 year ago
@ZZKe7 your comment made me burst out laughing which in turn made me spit tea all over my keyboard. i think its broke now.... can we discuss compensation ?
beanseeker 3 months ago
"jesus christ rog not so late", hahaha. love em
mikewebthree 1 year ago
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Yea that gave me a chuckle hehe, I fuckin' love RUGBY!
OvoJeBosnaProduction 1 year ago
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ogara caught lifting no more than a couple of bags of sugar, lol!! wimp
SayWeAreGoingUp 1 year ago
and id say ur a mad lad ye?? ha
think abou it hes one of the greatest outhalfs playing international rugby for one of international rugbys best squads
Minnock16 1 year ago
JESUS CRIST ROG!
jimbobjimminy 1 year ago 4
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o'gara is a bitch..got pumped by nonu lmao
hulkblack89 1 year ago
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There's always huge homoerotica in these things.
MachidaLyoto 1 year ago
watch my vid on Ireland INVICTUS 2009 unbeaten go to my channel PLZZZ
PEANUTBUTT3RJ3LLY 2 years ago
hahahah at the very start ball hits BOd in the face
den ROG says open lol classic
otoolej11 2 years ago 2
Good luck this year Ireland :)
WelshDave123 2 years ago
wat are the top 4 inches? DOC is the funniest boxer ever.
killerkilller1 2 years ago
head
Varibain 2 years ago
wat du think ur top 4 inches=ur brain ur thick
TheTomtomtim 1 year ago
thick? it was a simple question you fuckwit.
killerkilller1 1 year ago 9
a thick question........
TheTomtomtim 1 year ago
metaphorically u retard. top 4 inches to make you into a better player that bit that you need to grow into think about use your brain.
Obediah17 1 year ago
@Obediah17 wow..stop wasting my time
TheTomtomtim 1 year ago
I'm not Irish either - I did not understand a word of it! Great team though...
bowsa1981 2 years ago
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source: Irish Examiner 23/7/09
Meanwhile our health, education systems are breaking down and Irish people are being told to emigrate.
waaeaa 2 years ago
im not realy irish, but i realy want them to do well.
Joshpunksk8 2 years ago 45
Nice, that is! So lucky... that's a great life!
LeGrondeur 2 years ago
on the irish!
we the best : )
SXCBrionn 2 years ago
Haha, the final shot at the end - everyone on a boat...thinking about it, it'd be pretty bad-ass if the team would've sailed from Ireland to the Portuguese training camp. I guess DOC (that's who's in the pool, right?) could've tried to swim there if he likes it so much...
Zitronekopf 2 years ago
oconnel is a beast
fatsoblitz 2 years ago 5
he is a fuckin tank !!!
AICpantera 2 years ago 2
holy moly o'driscol is PALE!
stanlymanly2 2 years ago
true irish skin right there, lol :)
Nikon05 2 years ago 3
hahaha
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kaikumataka 2 years ago
I wish a team like Ireland came to America and faced one of their best football teams in a nice game of football. American would prob wake up to the fact that they don't watch real sports once they get a beating by a team that doesnt even play football.
Nenshati19 2 years ago 63
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No, that would not be the case, because when your talking about American Football, you have different rules which don't apply to rugby, and also USA has fifty times more talented people in contact sports than any other country. Another reason is because the set up of football, your goal is to make the most yards in a short period of time, in rugby you try to make the ball active for the longest period of time till you make a point.
kaikumataka 2 years ago
"and also USA has fifty times more talented people in contact sports than any other country" < thats just plain wrong, talent isnt about how big you are or how much you can bench, its about the "top four inches" and putting what you know into practice.
mumsaysimspecial 2 years ago
@kaikumataka the point is to score, keeping the ball alive is not the object of the game, it's the result of having a game organised around fitness skill and talent. Less stoppage, more dynamic and unpredictable gameplay. There are tactics but you also have to think on your feet, ball in hand. Having some 'roid monkey run around in a cage hitting whoever, with or without the ball for 2 and 3 min intervals hardly counts as talent. It may be spectacular to some, but talent? Not in my opinion.
jkino78 1 year ago
@Nenshati19 Way to be ignorant of the fact that they aren't even close to being the same sport.
Nebrida23 1 year ago
@Nebrida23 Agreed. It's like comparing baseball and cricket. Yeah the ball is thrown and you hit it with a stick, but they're not the same. Rugby players are better at rugby than football players, football players are better at football than rugby players. Always has been and always will be.
owlrugger11 1 year ago
@Nenshati19
sarm4538 1 year ago
@Nenshati19 rugby player will smash football players, american football is a copy cat sport
xxcrucificioxx 1 year ago
@Nenshati19 nuff said
papakilatube 1 year ago
@Nenshati19 The best rugby team in the world would get crushed, and I mean broken, bloodied, and crying, if they tried to play American football. No insult to rugby, I've played both, but it's a completely different sport. Rugby requires amazing stamina and endurance over 80 minutes and as a result the player don't have the strength, size or speed to play a sport that only requires short bursts.
Don't feel bad, an American football team wouldn't stand a chance at rugby either.
bubbalover71 1 year ago 5
@bubbalover71 rugby players don't have size strength or speed? I am 100% sure that many professional rugby players are big, strong and fast enough to make it into an NFL team, it would simply be the skills and understanding of the game that they lack
rmacrae91 1 year ago
@rmacrae91 No. Simply put, no. An NFL defensive lineman is about 300 pounds, runs about a 4.9 40 (yards, not meters) and bench presses about 450 pounds. No rugby player on earth can match those numbers.
Like I said before though, that same NFL lineman wouldn't last a half of a half playing rugby, they'd run out of gas. It's impossible, particularly for forward/linemen, to be conditioned for both. Try searching for "NFL Pro Timing Day" to see what I'm talking about.
bubbalover71 1 year ago
@bubbalover71 very good, taking the biggest man as an example. I would agree with you there, it is unlikely that any rugby player has the same physical attributes as a lineman in the sense of weight to speed/power ratio. Bench press however, 450lbs (205kg) is very common, you would see a lot of players capable of this.
My argument was that there would be some rugby players who are strong,big and fast enough to play in the NFL, not that they would be the biggest and strongest players.
rmacrae91 1 year ago
@rmacrae91 And I'm not saying that they could NEVER play, but they would take at least a year of conditioning for pure speed and strength while loosing some stamina and endurance. When I went from football to rugby I was clearly the best player on the pitch...for about 30 seconds. I spent the rest of the game wondering when the defense would come out and taking up space. After that I concentrated on stamina, lost about 20 pounds and some speed, but was a better rugby player.
bubbalover71 1 year ago
@bubbalover71 I swear you are clueless bro. Why would you lose speed when you started playing rugby? I am hoping you didn't do this intentionally, because there are many way of training cardio specific to rugby without losing speed.
rmacrae91 1 year ago
@bubbalover71 Wait... you lost weight and then lost speed ? lol fair goin lol
MegaSlayerr 1 year ago
@bubbalover71 rugby is a burst game...you just don't get to sit around for 5 minutes after using that burst of energy.
thorsalech 2 months ago
@Nenshati19 well you're stupid, any NFL team would dick on a rugby team at american football
rmacrae91 1 year ago
@Nenshati19 you said everything
PMantis013 1 year ago
@Nenshati19 2 different games, I have played rugby and football and I can tell you that if Ireland came over here to play say the Giants they would loose horribly, its not their game. And the Giants would loose horribly to Ireland in a game of rugby.
Yes, rugby players are all around more talented, but football players are very good at their own respective jobs.
Jake676767jm 1 year ago
@Nenshati19 agreed. And im from america
tumnu84 1 year ago
@Nenshati19 our american football players are bigger, stronger and faster than rugby players you stupid fuck
SupremeSaenz 11 months ago
@SupremeSaenz Fuck off wanker how would you know?
KOCTLWYE5811 11 months ago
@SupremeSaenz american football is a big girls blouse of a game, I was in the states years with some of my rugby buddies years ago and we played them at their own game without their helmets bodyguard and whatever the fuck else they use to protect themselves and we wiped the floor with them, Eire abu
illuminousmonkey 10 months ago
Donners a beast
thekidfrom94 2 years ago
i feel sorry for that poor punching bag.. O Connell is the biggest legend!
stabcitySB 2 years ago
nice video
TheAllblacks97 2 years ago
drico is a natural leader, nothin to say i'm a fan of him , but for me the captain is o' connell!
MrFede23 2 years ago
drico u fuckin ledge lol
and paul u fuckin tank! lol
deadlydarren 2 years ago
"jesus rog not so late"lmao!!!drico u lege!!!
Leinster4life13 2 years ago 2
i would not like to be in the punching bags place when donners and paul are hitting it!!!
AICpantera 2 years ago
what the hell is eddie on about
robbie7992 2 years ago 4
loven donnacha o Callaghans swiming style.
themaddestfella 2 years ago 5
its a terrible style21!!!! :)
neilhosey 2 years ago
lol :-) but he's probably after 20 lengths or so.....style prob goes out the window then
boru1982 2 years ago
honestly hes not a good swimmer, completely wrong... but i love him as a rugb player!!
neilhosey 2 years ago
What the fuck is eddie talking about? The top 4 inches, it's like an apres match skit.
like2surf 2 years ago 5
their minds! winning can be all in the head....remaining focused, determined, coping with incredible amounts of pressure...they are all things that can cause you to either win or lose a game...and they are all controled in the mind. i get what he means...
bananafruity104 1 year ago
It's good for me,let me know what training the top team do.I want to see real training side.thank you
swordofreal 2 years ago
whats the drill at 0:23?
Murphinator72 2 years ago
what's the music in the backround?
Kierkegaard1836 2 years ago
bring on the lions!!! donncha baby!! ohh man that swimming pool!! he can rescue me any day!! ans the punch bag!! woooww!
Donnchagirls 2 years ago
Jasus, O Callaghan throwing a dig with his foot out in front. his career as a doorman after rugby is finished. Congrats on selection!
bigirishtube 2 years ago
that pitch is in the algarve , it has the best grass I've ever played in.
borges1059 2 years ago
it was werid seeing these guys weight training with machines such as lat pulldowns and pulley rows as apposed to free weights
richiespice10 2 years ago
The bag work is for conditioning/endurance they have probably done many sets on the bag before you see these clips, plus they aren't training to be boxers so technique is irrelevant as long as they aren't injuring their arms/hands.
This seems pretty obvious to me, but you always get a few Internet Tysons criticizing.....
TheGentl3man 2 years ago
who saw peter stringers 2 last ditch tackles to stop mike roberts scoring today.fucking great,little man on the pitch with the biggest fuckin heart.gwan ireland
Ggavin360 2 years ago
Whos Mike Roberts mate?!?!?!? lol
deian1984 2 years ago
hes the welsh scrum half i think he was guna score the try to win the match if it wasnt for stringer.haha n the size of stringer makes it even better hes a legend
Ggavin360 2 years ago
Think u mean Mike phillips LMAO
deian1984 2 years ago
lol yeah haha my bad.fuck the welsh!
Ggavin360 2 years ago
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lol what u mean Fuck the Welsh?
u Lot think now u got 1 grandslam in like what is it 60-70 years that ur the greatst
Ha pathetic bring on Munster Ospreys in April
Feckn Irish Lepricons!!
Go look 4 ur pot of lucky charms
LMAO
deian1984 2 years ago
i was jus sayin cos i got the name wrong shit...i got nothin againt welsh people like you seem to have against the irish.i appreciate the good rugby wales play n the great players they got which makes the grand slam we got this year even more of an achievment.
Ggavin360 2 years ago 2
U got nothing against us welsh yet u sed fuck the Welsh???????
good 1 ;)
deian1984 2 years ago
haha 49-3, you cock
michaelstillidie 2 years ago
What can i say
Hard 2 beat 16 guys
How much did u lot pay that cheating english prick of a ref?
deian1984 2 years ago
yea, it does usually make a 46-point difference.. jus showin u not to talk shit again :P..
michaelstillidie 2 years ago
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LOL Typical paddy
LMAO ;)
deian1984 2 years ago
go on boii wales are good and stuff, but were better this year :p responded quick to that one
michaelstillidie 2 years ago
Bring on next year
O's 4 the H Cup
Wales 4 GS
Me 4 PM
LMAO
deian1984 2 years ago
lol but they do have a centre called roberts,came on for the full back
Ggavin360 2 years ago
ye Jamie Roberts
deian1984 2 years ago
Bring on Munster vs Osperys?
Babes, We beat you:)
YeeahBabesx 2 years ago
Allways next year
Got 2 admit even tho i think the ref was shit, Munster r a top side
But the O's will b back
deian1984 2 years ago
when o connells hitting the bag it almost reminds me of jamie cudmores face?
shanewhite 2 years ago 4
that gym is noiceeeeee
KinkyKishMAN 2 years ago 3
yes wut o'connell is doing is wut we do we have to it the bag non stop 4 2 mins then a few seconds break 4 times and thats in between lots of def trainnig exercise's its takes alot of you as you see in o'connells face but we cant be sloppy we have to hit high and straight with power its great for endurance. the fittness of those big lads on the rugby field is very very good!
link10304 3 years ago
Many sportsmen use boxing for fitness and as they are rugby players and not boxers it is irrelevant if they are any good at boxing.
mccur002 3 years ago
sometimes its for endurance aswell
shiznykid 3 years ago
using the same kind of muscles
BannockBurn81 3 years ago
you fight one of them so and see how u get on
tulceltic 2 years ago
that guy cant swim
pete2411991 3 years ago
Apply mccur002 comment to swimming
irelad101 3 years ago
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as a boxer i have to say those dudes on the bags are a joke.
link10304 3 years ago
they're not boxers, nor are they training for boxing.
ungabunga1 3 years ago
wow! ungabunga1 it is to be in shape.
1996bornandraised 3 years ago
as rugby players they would probably say you look like a retard trying to kick a conversion with a rugby ball....
LEEOSULLIVAN 2 years ago
there just trainning its not like there in the ring u sap
sbmsn 2 years ago