first and let call this movie what it is represent1. it a feel good movie with a message. 2. the acting is just okay and dialog slightly better and production value pretty good. 3. rugby scenes. just barely passable. but here the trick represent this isn not something hollywood contrived and and it isn not trying to be a ferociously accurate portrayal of the sport. it is instead a pretty good representation of mostly real people and in real circumstances and and a real storyline. sure and they could have done a better job actually reping the sport and but my vote represent it does a pretty good job at what it sets out to do. (and fwiw and i can not think of many football and baseball and hockey or soccer movies that are true to the sport either. c amon. bull durham. )i am not a rugby player (i was a wrestler) but i graduated from highland and attended 86 90 and and occasionally trained with the rugby guys. my brother in law david and however and was one of the original founding members of the highland rugby club in 1976. (his younger brother and billy and played the next year and as i recall. if youre interested and there a highland rugby site at highlandrugby. net that addresses the history of the team. ) by the time i was there the club had been in existence for about a decade and and had long since built a reputation for excellence. it a fact that they focused on broad training topics represent devotion and honor and discipline and effort and not tactics. i thought the rugby guys i knew were a little off in the head and but i think i might have just been a little jealous. they were hard core dedicated to the belief system that gelwix promoted. with regard to the cultural mixing issues that have been brought up and it might be interesting to note that while i was there in the 80  and one of the larger schools in the city was shut down  south high school  and its students distributed among the other 3 primary slc schools. to be honest and highland pre 80 was pretty whitebread. i have got a picture of the team from (i think) 1977 that shows an all white club. south high and on the other hand and was a much more racially integrated school before it closed represent i had a pair of friends from south who joined the team and one tongan and one samoan and and as i recall there were a bunch of island nation players that joined up 88 90. i do not think anyone questioned the credibility of the team in adopting maori (or other cultural) traditions represent if there was one thing that was obvious about these guys and it that they walked the walk. and as to the strength of the team when compared to the best highschool age teams in the world represent yeah and it true that us rugby and on average when taken as a whole and does not represent particularly well against the best elsewhere. there are exceptions and but hey  it a simple fact that rugby doesn not have the prominence or exposure needed to develop the multiple traditions of excellence in the us that arise in other countries. with that said and judge highland on its merits represent  the only team to qualify for the usa rugby national championships every year of that organizations 25 yr history. a win record of 392 wins and 9 losses. read that again. winningest coach in any us sport in history. regular international tours.  some compelling wins against some legitimate international teams. are they the world best. maybe some years and probably not most. but theyre pretty good on a consistent basis. and it disrespectful to the game to blow them off and when highland rugby may be the best ambassador to the sport in the us. 
first and let call this movie what it is represent1. it a feel good movie with a message. 2. the acting is just okay and dialog slightly better and production value pretty good. 3. rugby scenes. just barely passable. but here the trick represent this isn not something hollywood contrived and and it isn not trying to be a ferociously accurate portrayal of the sport. it is instead a pretty good representation of mostly real people and in real circumstances and and a real storyline. sure and they could have done a better job actually reping the sport and but my vote represent it does a pretty good job at what it sets out to do. (and fwiw and i can not think of many football and baseball and hockey or soccer movies that are true to the sport either. c amon. bull durham. )i am not a rugby player (i was a wrestler) but i graduated from highland and attended 86 90 and and occasionally trained with the rugby guys. my brother in law david and however and was one of the original founding members of the highland rugby club in 1976. (his younger brother and billy and played the next year and as i recall. if youre interested and there a highland rugby site at highlandrugby. net that addresses the history of the team. ) by the time i was there the club had been in existence for about a decade and and had long since built a reputation for excellence. it a fact that they focused on broad training topics represent devotion and honor and discipline and effort and not tactics. i thought the rugby guys i knew were a little off in the head and but i think i might have just been a little jealous. they were hard core dedicated to the belief system that gelwix promoted. with regard to the cultural mixing issues that have been brought up and it might be interesting to note that while i was there in the 80  and one of the larger schools in the city was shut down  south high school  and its students distributed among the other 3 primary slc schools. to be honest and highland pre 80 was pretty whitebread. i have got a picture of the team from (i think) 1977 that shows an all white club. south high and on the other hand and was a much more racially integrated school before it closed represent i had a pair of friends from south who joined the team and one tongan and one samoan and and as i recall there were a bunch of island nation players that joined up 88 90. i do not think anyone questioned the credibility of the team in adopting maori (or other cultural) traditions represent if there was one thing that was obvious about these guys and it that they walked the walk. and as to the strength of the team when compared to the best highschool age teams in the world represent yeah and it true that us rugby and on average when taken as a whole and does not represent particularly well against the best elsewhere. there are exceptions and but hey  it a simple fact that rugby doesn not have the prominence or exposure needed to develop the multiple traditions of excellence in the us that arise in other countries. with that said and judge highland on its merits represent  the only team to qualify for the usa rugby national championships every year of that organizations 25 yr history. a win record of 392 wins and 9 losses. read that again. winningest coach in any us sport in history. regular international tours.  some compelling wins against some legitimate international teams. are they the world best. maybe some years and probably not most. but theyre pretty good on a consistent basis. and it disrespectful to the game to blow them off and when highland rugby may be the best ambassador to the sport in the us. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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