QotD: Rugby

Coming from Tasmania, where very little rugby union is played, I know very little about the code. I am sure they have rules, I just can't work out what they are.

Their positions are foreign to me. Who would let their young son play a game which has a player position called a Hooker? Rugby also has players called Props, which aren't airplanes. It has Scrumhalves which, presumably were Scrumwholes until they were chewed up by the Props. It has Outside Centres and Inside Centres. Clearly, no one of authority has ever pointed out that centre means right smack in the middle and it's not possible to have two of them. Then there are Weak Side Wingers and Strong Side Wingers. How discriminatory is that? What lesson does it send to kids? Superman probably plays on one side and Clark Kent plays on the other.

John Martin, "No son of mine is going to play with Hookers", Dunno, 2001-06-18