Just for a bit of fun.

There's table tennis, table hockey, table football. Is there a feasible way of creating table rugby?! No idea how it would work, but would be a good pub game! Thought I'd pick at the collective minds on here and see if there's any bright ideas floating out there!

If there's a Union version it will involve throwing a miniature ball at the empty spaces in a room for no reason whatsoever.

When I was a kid in the 80's, the lad next door to me had Subbuteo Rugby.

It's been done www.subbuteorugby.com/index.php I spent many a happy hour as a youngster playing this game If you wanted a really authentic game compare.ebay.co.uk/like/33045848 ... s&var=sbar

It's been done www.subbuteorugby.com/index.php I spent many a happy hour as a youngster playing this game If you wanted a really authentic game compare.ebay.co.uk/like/33045848 ... s&var=sbar

Think he means something a bit quicker than that.

For starters you'd need defensive likes that can move back and forth, unlike Table Football's static players... for league anyway. Think there's a reason it hasn't been done - rugby doesn't seem to obviously work with it sadly.

Worth thinking about though...

There is already a table version of RL , all you need is a table , a matchbox and some cello tape

Was about to mention matchbox rugby... our paste table has pitch markings drawn on them



Who needs iphones....

We had a matchbox rugby league at school. This is also available www.givethedogabone.co.uk/produc ... nge_pp1254 and subbuteo teams are available: stores.ebay.co.uk/WORLD-SUBBUTEO ... 4340.l2563

We had a matchbox rugby league at school. This is also available www.givethedogabone.co.uk/produc ... nge_pp1254 and subbuteo teams are available: stores.ebay.co.uk/WORLD-SUBBUTEO ... 4340.l2563

Starbug, can you paste the rules of matchbox rugby?

I've played Subbuteo rugby but I've never heard of table rugby. Can't think of a way how it would work

Seriously Joe , you've never played matchbox rugby ?

We played a tabletop game witha 2p piece

So how did you take penalties and conversions ?

We used our fingers and thumbs as posts and you had to get the coin through posts just like Rugby.

Exactly. Penny Rugby. I thought everyone had played penny rugby.

Aye, spin the coin, catch it between 'cocked' thumbs, and fire it over the oponents' posts of thumbs as crossbar and first fingers as uprights.

Yeah I've played that one before. Good laugh that. I remember when I was a kid, I made a pitch out of the underside of a dominos board (had green felt), drew the lines and a SL logo in the middle. The felt slowed the coin down a bit which made it easier, and you could do 40-20s.

Only thing I didn't like about penny rugby was getting hit in the face with a coin on conversions!

confused at the warrington kit on that subbuteo green with amber collar??????????????????

Never heard of it.
And this is the first I've heard of Subbuteo rugby. Always thought they only did football.

I was thinking more along the lines of Foosball (as the Americans call it).

matchbox rugby not played that for years thats the thing where 2 of you sit opposite each other at a table and flick (we used a 2p coin) to slightly overhang the edge of the table you then had to flick it up and catch it if you caught it you got a try then your partner would use his hands to make posts (make a telephone with both your hands, put thumbs down on the table and then bring out both your index fingers till they touch at the tips). then you hold the 2p between both thumbs and flick it over for the conversion. loved it

If you used a coin, why was it called matchbox rugby?!

And our posts were a bit more Craaaaig Daaaavid than telephones, if you get what I mean?

because its the same thing except u use a matchbox instead of 2p

Ahh the old days. Me and my brother made a pitch on some MDF.

aahh … them were the days

Maybe we should challenge the Aussies , we might be able to beat them at that