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Playing thugby instead of rugby

After a series of trials, Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and imprisoned for two years, hard labour. In prison he wrote De Profundis published in 1905. Oscar Wilde said: “Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the centre of the city.”

He was not alone when rugby was discussed by men of learning .George Orwell the English novelist compared a match under the 15-man code as the equivalent of “war minus the shooting.” Orwell’s quote is interesting, but doesn’t specifically refer to rugby; he went on to say “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.”

Recently in Kandy at Nittawela we almost proved Orwell wrong: it would have been war and shooting. . That was when a gunshot was released in the playing enclosure. Was it or was it not? According to those who matter the player should be commended as it was he who defused a situation that would have been disastrous if a bullet had hit a spectator. Thanks to the player who grabbed the gun from an enraged soldier the disastrous consequences were avoided. A Joke that should not be taken too far as this is thinking everybody else is a fool.

Orwell in Animal Farm says “"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Orwell’s quote is related to s Sri Lanka in many ways as the arrogance of power is pervading and includes the schools. Many incidents that is unfolding on rugby rely on power being more equal include those who should set the standards thinking that they can say anything and get away with it.

Is Rugby becoming Thugby? Thugby is explained in the urban dictionary as; “when a “thug” or “gangsta” street kid wears clothing made by Ralph Lauren’s “Rugby” brand. Thug plus Rugby equals Thugby. Bakkies Botha was booted out of rugby for his head-butt on Jimmy Cowan in the New Zealand – South Africa Test at Eden Park. The newspaper columnist reported “It will be interesting to see if the Springbok selectors continue with Botha for their campaign in RWC 2011.”If they do it means that they are determined to win important matches through thugby rather than by playing rugby.”

In Sri Lanka Rugby the idea of winning is taken to mean win at any cost. You would have heard the often quoted phrase; we have spent so much on our team and the mistakes are taking, us down. Often taken to mean the mistakes of the referee as you never lose because of players, wrong game plan or that you never took the right option.

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Trinity College Dublin (TCD, Ireland: Colaiste na Tríonóide, Baile Atha Cliath), formerly known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin is known, was in 1592, founded by patent of Queen Elizabeth I as Mother, “a university ” and is the only part of the University College Dublin. Unlike the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, according to the University of Dublin, was modeled and the two universities, the number of components, there is only one University of Dublin: Trinity College. Thus, the terms “Trinity College Dublin” and “University of Dublin” are usually synonymous for practical purposes. In Dublin, Ireland, is the oldest university in Ireland. Originally outside the walls of the city of Dublin in the buildings of the Augustinian monastery founded in the Resolution of All Saints, Trinity was created in part to strengthen the rule of the Tudor monarchy in Ireland, and was recognized as the university saw Protestant supremacy for most of its history, Although Catholics and dissidents had been allowed to give, so early in the year 1793, remain subject to certain restrictions on admission to 1873 (professorships, scholarships and were reserved for Protestants) and banned the Catholic Church in Ireland, its members, without the permission of his Bishop to visit until 1970. Women were first to the school, admitted as full members in 1904. Trinity College and Dublin have a complex relationship, while a “difference or distinction” between the two countries are often said to be “one body” – the conclusion of the Superior Court of Justice of Ireland was presented by former Master of the Rolls in Ireland, Andrew Maxwell Porter, 2 June 1888, the review of the legislative history of hits and then take the two terms seem to have been often used interchangeably.

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