New Prologue Page #2
Jan06
No worries if you’re not hip to the rules of rugby. Since the other team let the ball fall forward (as a result of the fumble), a scrum ensues for ball control. Sabrina and Kelly are the wings so they’re planning on what to do next when/if they get the ball.
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So… Sabrina is the strategist? The team captain? Or just the ideas girl?
She sees what is going on and comes up with a plan. The start of a good career in anything.
Snowy, and Pete (Prestwick) below have got the answers for you, but you’re on the right path. 😉
So this is the rugby we’re seeing. It’s not like the one I see on TV; that one’s way more exciting. I’m surprised it wasn’t field hockey or Australian Rules or since this looks like a well-to-do private school, netball since Sabrina just has to be different.
I am not surprised. Albone indicates Sabrina is tough and rugby is a tough sport. Would you believe Sabrina could last in the ring if she was raised playing safe sports?
JSN, I’m jealous that you get to see Rugby on TV.
It also fits because Sabrina is from up north and it has a bigger following in the states closer to Canada. And like Alan indicated its something that shows Sabrina is strong, tough and can be creative as well as determined.
Rrrrrugby! (Yay!)
Though thing how much more of a Yay! it would have been if they had been playing shirts vs skins.
YAY!!!!!
I adore Sabrina, and I love that she’s able to play such a tough and demanding sport. However, if she ever tries to talk to me about it, she’s getting glazed eyes and “yes, dear.”
It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve done that to a woman talking about sports…
… shut up. My Man Card has plenty of points left.
So Blitz who do you think will win this weekend? the Saints or the Lions?
Just like any unfamiliar sport, it takes a little bit to understand what’s going on, but Rugby really is a fun sport and its no wonder it’s so popular around the world.
Your Man Card is in good standing. 😉
Snowy, American football is the one non-combat sport I actually care about at all. I was dragged into it, kicking and screaming the whole way. There’s a lot of things about it that remain opaque – don’t talk to me about the draft, for instance – but I enjoy attending the occasional Chiefs game.
Much as I’d like to say the Lions, because it’d be nice to see a high school acquaintance of mine advance in the playoffs, that’d be the second-biggest upset of the weekend, right after Denver somehow beating the Steelers.
Albone, yeah, but I find it humorous when the ladies are more knowledgeable and enthusiastic about sports than me. Not only am I a guy, and therefore presumed to be into this kind of thing, I’m an athlete myself. Just in an entirely different type of sport.
FETCH!!! Good dog!
Dog? Icky….
😛
Number 11, eh? So ‘Brina’s a winger then? Makes sense. 🙂
Ex prop forward and very occasional lock here. Gotta love Rugby, one of the few games where you can legitimately use your boot studs to get opponents away from the ball. (within reason of course).
Having played both codes of Rugby, Aussie Rules and Gridiron, I can honestly say that I was hit harder in gridiron but not constantly. Playing Rugby, you get hit solidly more often, and I always ended up more sore after Rugby than Gridiron.
Remember what ever doesn’t kill you just makes you sore.
Yep! Peter’s got it down a little further down, but you got it. You don’t have to know about Rugby to understand, but guys like you will have more of an appreciation for what’s going on as far as the rugby part is concerned.
Always enjoyed smashing a few backs. 😀
A little rugby joke for you: What do you call people who hang around with rugny players? Answer: Backs…
My first job at any ruck or maul I wasn’t actually tied up in was to try and kill the opponent fly half.
Hey guys its Prestwick here, I’ve been watching all the comments for the last week and thought I’d pop in with an answer for Alurker and JSN.
Alurker: Kelly here is the girl wearing 9 and that is the number of the scrum-half. In a way the role of the Quarterback is split between the scrum-half and the fly-half and both have immense responsibility about what happens with the ball. In theory the scrum half will always be the first to touch the ball followed by the fly-half so both have to think: do I kick, do I run or do I pass? In frames 1-3 Kelly passed the ball to her fly-half who decided to kick and won a scrum when the opposition player fumbled the ball and knocked it forwards.
In this scenario therefore ‘Brina’s team has a scrum and Kelly will get the ball out so before the play starts she’s just canvassing for ideas and it looks like Sabrina just gave her a great one 😉
In terms of the ladies playing rugby I don’t think any other sport has gained such rapid exposure and respect overnight than women’s rugby and some players like England’s Maggie Alphonsie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRfnaLPhIvU) could play against the lads with ease.
W00t! Also, welcome to commentors like JSN. 😛
Thanks for the info, (and I should know this stuff myself) I was mainly figuring that the one throwing the ideas around usually has some authority. But yeah, strategy is strategy.
As for womens rugby – hell yeah. Current Womens World cup champs – New Zealand Black Ferns. Boo yeah, in your face Brooke. 😛
Ablone should have put her in the Lingeria bowl :))
That’s a mighty fine idea, but more appropriate for an of-age Brooke. XD
I was thinking a linguine bowl…. sorry read that ALLL wrong my bad…
Who was the girl that fumbled the ball?
Is Rival Angels now going to be about ruby?
And why does Sabrina have bare arms in the first shot then her arms get covered up in the last two frames? Avoiding grass rash or something?
The girl who fumbled the ball is from the other team! Rival Angels will always be about Sabrina, Sun, Krystin and Brooke, and wrestling, but not always in a linear way.
Sabrina, uh, just rolled them up is all in the first panel. 😉 I’m at the car shop getting my car fixed, but when I get home I’ll fix that.
Now that’s my kind of plan! Who needs details? Now me XD
🙂
Brina seems pretty confident in this plan. Hope it works. And something tells me Kelly was her besty back in High School
Donny, you can bet that her and Kelly may have run this plan before. 😉 Definitely BFF in rugby but Sabrina’s High School BFF will make an appearance later in the season.
Bree you are still wickedly good lookin even as a hoghschooler, kick some ass kiddo
I’ll scrum you….
(I…I don’t know Rugby terms) 🙁
Scrum can work, but if it’s innuendo you’re after, the word you want is “Ruck”
Honest. I’m not making this up. Wiki it.
Nothing quite like a good solid rucking… 😉
If you are looking for innuendo, maybe someone should explain to Trevor the name of the position to be found in the middle of the front row of the scrum. Clue: the aim of the position is to win the ball by using her feet to “hook” it backwards to her team-mates. So she is called the…
On a more serious rugby issue, in the top frame why is Sabrina – a wing – so close to the ruck? Not remotely her job to be there. Purple number 3 also seems to be off her feet and/or as attempting to use her hands in the ruck, so Kelly should have got a penalty from that.
OTOH the unnumbered girl from Sabrina’s team to the right of the #3 is standing up in the ruck, so is not properly bound in, even assuming she has joined the ruck “through the gate”… so would be offside. In short – what on earth is the referee doing?
And I really hope Kelly – the no 9 – is not planning to try to kick the ball as she will be flattened. That should be the 10s job…
Hey John! Thanks for checking out the site and thanks for the shout out on the Letchworth Girls Rugby site.
As for how the rugby action unfolds, I hope you enjoy. 🙂
I guess she’d be near the ruck if the ruck was close to her sideline, or maybe one of her fellow backs took the ball into the ruck and she’s just backing out after the loose forwards arrived.
As for the penalty, the ref’s maybe playing advantage, since he’s seen the ball’s out anyway. It’s what I’d do if I were reffing, keep the game flowing when you can.
And yeah normally the 10 kicks, but I do remember playing with a fijian half who’d often put the bomb kick up from a scrum or ruck base, inside the opposing 22 and have our former high jumper Fullback hit it at speed. If he didn’t get it, the 10 often would. Was a handy play when you could see the opposing backs were all looking at the 10. It failed on occasions when the flankers had any clues at all, though.
Ah the good ol’ run and gun method 🙂 got to love it.
True enough on the advantage, but clearly no advantage has been gained, so shouldn’t we should go back for a penalty for the first offence, not a scrum?
I admit that I may be taking this too seriously (though it is curiously appropriate considering an ongoing debate on the standard of referees in women’s and girls’ rugby…).
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