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forgiveness:
God bless him for creating jobs in Nigeria. Rugby is a very good sport that can give money if well promoted.

Offpoint1:
see field dem dey take play rugby, those players no like dem selves at all

Zocalite:
Where in ilorin

forgiveness:
God bless him for creating jobs in Nigeria. Rugby is a very good sport that can give money if well promoted.

Haydens:


With nothing to protect their head ?

This is risk 101 and seems very local. The organisers must bear the brunt if anything or injuriy happens to any of those players

Zocalite:
Lolzzzzz 🤣

Common sense isn't common

Owaincouncil:
Abi oooo.
By the time they break neck or leg, they will know there is no hospital in Nigeria and what we have is maternity wards

Haydens:


With nothing to protect their head ?

This is risk 101 and seems very local. The organisers must bear the brunt if anything or injuriy happens to any of those players

dfrost:
Some secondary schools, even in the stadium. I personally know one of the coaches promoting the sport then.

10thTenthMan:
Yes true talk.

You are very correct. I thought so too. The game is still trying to begin teething in Nigeria. It needs to be embraced, and it will be fun seeing Nigeria as a rugby nation.

But knowing how Nigerians learn and adapt quickly to things, it is usually better to do certain things very early on. Otherwise, Nigerians embrace it and then it becomes difficult to change. This is my fear. The fear of copying what isn't ours and sticking with it. It is bad enough that the game itself isn't ours. No problems. I really do not mind. But the ''customs'' and ''practices'' , this should be Nigerian like you agreed.

I hope that eventually he would sit down with people who can design and develop these things to gather ideas as the game gathers acceptance.

ntyce:
Where do you see rugby players wearing protection over the head.
You must think Rugby is same as American Football.

10thTenthMan:
DO I SEE THEM PERFORMING THE HAKA IN SOME OF THE PHOTOS!!! IF YES THEN HELLL NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!



NOOOOOOO....Please DEVELOP YOUR OWN STYLE AND WAY FOR THE RUGBY GAME IN NIGERIA. THE NIGERIAN RUYGBY STYLE AND FLAIR AND TRADITIONS. DONT COPY THE MAORI TRADITION. PUT YOUR OWN UNIQUE WAYS INTO THE GAME.

THE RULES OF THE GAME REMAINS THE SAME BUT YOU SEE THE CEREMONIES AND OPENING ACTIVITIES AND SO ON.....PLEASE MAKE IT NIGERIAN!!! MAKE IT UNIQUE!!!

BRING OUT EGUNGUN IF POSSIBLE.

BRING OUT EYO ADAMU ORISA TO CLEANS THE FIELD IF YOU LIKE.

BUT MAKE IT NIGERIAN!!!!!

MAKE THE CULTURE AND CUSTOM AND NORMS OF THE GAME IN NIGERIA UNIQUE WITH ITS OWN UNIQUE ACTIVITIES.

TUNDE DELU .... PLEASE SEE THIS POST OF MINE. YOU ARE PROMOTING THIS SPORT IN NIGERIA AND I LOVE YOUR PASSION TO DO SO. BUT MAKE THE ENTIRE THING ''NIGERIANIZED'' APART FROM THE GLOBAL RULES OF THE GAME.

THE CEREMONIES AND NORMS SHOULD BE NIGERIAN, PLEASE.

NO COYPING OF MAORI TRADITIONS. NO COPYING. MAKE IT UNIQUELY NIGERIAN AND NIGERIAN UNIQUE. PLEASE.

osuofia2:
Some sports no fit Poverty

Abloh:
This useless sport

nairalanda1:
Rugby is a great sport. Teaches strength, endurance and strategizing.

The reason why it is not popular was largely because it never professionalized until some 35 years ago. Meanwhile football got professional over 120 years ago...so a young man wanting to do sport and earn money would choose association football over rugby.

Abloh:
football over useless rugby

nairalanda1:
Ah, most rugby players wear nothing to protect their heads. They even sort of take it as a thing of pride (that's why we better than those American footballers).

Below is a picture from a match between two of the world's top rugby clubs...Munster and Leinster from Eire. Note the lack of head protection (at best they wear mouth gards like the boxers do.)

Second photo is from another two of the world's top rugby clubs...the Sharks and the Bulls (from South Africa). Again note the lack of head gear. Guy in green is the ref.

Haydens:
Okay,well explained . But what's the difference between rugby 🏉 and American football?🏈

Goodlady:
Source?

nairalanda1:
Well, let's start by defining football as a game where a ball is kicked between two teams of any number x of people. The complicated thing is that it has a lot of variants/ types. There is no one type of football, there are several types, each of which have rules and regulations.

LIke rugby football is football played by rugby rules and Association footbal is played by Association football rules...(which were actualy a combination of two rule systems...).

In America, rugby was intially the game, but then some Americans started adding their rules ...and the result was American (aka Girdiron) football (that's the short and dirty history, the acutal history is a bit more complex)

American football even has a variant called Canadian football (some of the rules are different, and the length of the pitch is different, but if you can play American footbal, you can play canadian football).

There is even Australian rules football self.

TenQ:
Understood!
The Oyinbo man also copied the Haka from somewhere.
It would be nice seeing a culturally creative and adaptive African Haka. Better still if we can export it to other nations.

Shalom

10thTenthMan:
From my Rugby Watching Experience when I recall the countries that perform the Haka, only NEWZEALAND comes to mind. The whites join them in performing it if they are Citizens there or have strong ties to the country. There is no other country that performs the Haka. Another country that has a traditional war dance they perform is Fiji. They perform their Cibi and whenever they face New Zealand it is usually an interesting display. There is also the Samoan Siva Tau, Tongan Sipi Tau, Fiji iBOLE, and the Cook Islands war dance.

When it is time and the game is ripe, we would and should remember to bring out our Ogene; our Ohiafia Ikpirikpi Ogu War Dance; or Egungu; etc etc.


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AnonPoet:
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