After the Leeds and Worcester premiership survival game. Two Worcester players and their dads in a public scrap. www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyu ... rawls.html

After the Leeds and Worcester premiership survival game. Two Worcester players and their dads in a public scrap. www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyu ... rawls.html

Im sure they will all sit down with a glass of Pimms and make up

The steward in the foreground of that picture is really earning his money huh?

Toffs?

Grow up.

I agree the Toffs should grow up, fighting at a sporting event

Hahahahaha they is toffs cos they lyks rugbeh yewniun. Lololololol.

Fairly mild compared the the Mum's at our under 7's games..

You prefer "G&T Brigade", "kick and Clap worshipers" or "Hooray Henrys"?

If this were RL we'd be bleating on about it being 'more bad press for the game' when in reality, nobody outside of the game really gives a toss.

Or Wuggah buggahs?

Do we know who won the subsequent duel?

Windsor born Chris Cracknell is an old boy of Shiplake College, a boarding school set in 45 acres of private parkland in Henley on Thames.

Collins is an old boy of another boarding school - Swinford Hospital - reputedly designed by Sir Christopher Wren and with a history dating back to the 1600s, it has produced a number of top sportsmen. All of them rugby union players.

Pip, pip.

Is it time for Burrow to take on Baileys dad yet?

Talking of the kick and clap brigade... I see one of them has crated a video blog! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKFjWR7X5dU

Talking of the kick and clap brigade... I see one of them has crated a video blog! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKFjWR7X5dU

So it seems the "toffs" stereotype was spot on.

I'd prefer not stereotyping people, but hey that's not gonna happen here is it?

I'm sure Luther Burrell, product of that fine educational establishment Huddersfield New College fits the toff description perfectly - no, really.

I often find stereotypes to be alarmingly accurate.

Careful. You're mighty close to stereotyping other posters on RLFANS with that remark.

Pick that bottom lip up and stop stamping your feet.



Might it be pertinent to point out that Luther Burrell wasn't fighting nor referred to as a toff...only the 2 public schoolboys that were engaging in fisticuffs were labeled such?

It would, if the report the OP linked to had made any reference to the background of the two players involved. For all the OP knew, they could both have been educated at the local comprehensive.

A poor attempt at revisionism.

Pure supposition. How do you know what the OP knew of the players' backgrounds?

He said they were toffs, and toffs they have been shown to be.

Mind you, by my reckoning at least 15 of the 26 English players in the Worcester squad were privately educated.

Of the remaining 11, 2 were definitely state educated, the remainder either have no profile information or have had careers long and prestigious enough that their schools are no longer relevant enough to mention. My guess would be that around 20 would be in total.

Aside from rugby union convert Ewan Dowes, can anyone think of any privately educated RL players? I'm sure there must have been some.

"Private" as in a posh fee-paying school or "Private" as in "home educated due to their schools exclusion policies" ???

Yes, that could make quite a difference as distinctions go.

Lets go with the former.