Anyone else nuts for RL and/or the mighty S in here?

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I am a Widnes fan. I will be at Knowsley Road on the 27th.

Even the players have ****ing beer bellies!

Rugby league is for people who didn't have the fitness to play union.

It is the equivalent of amatuer boxing to the pros, a watered down version of a real sport.

Roy wasn't trying to prove anything you know. He was just after the money. No matter how much you have, it ain't enough!

As for Rugby Union, it looks like it is better than League but that tioo is also a boring toff sport.

Rugby league is for people who didn't have the fitness to play union.

It is the equivalent of amatuer boxing to the pros, a watered down version of a real sport.

Absolutely untrue. You need considerably more fitness to play League. But you don't need as much brains to understand the rules, hence the widespread appeal in Yorkshite.

I'm more of a Rugby Union fan myself, well sort of.

Darren Lockyer is going to Wigan apparently.

Rugby league is for people who didn't have the fitness to play union.

It is the equivalent of amatuer boxing to the pros, a watered down version of a real sport.

Number of minutes ball in play in the recent England vs NZ union match: 31 - out of 80.
Number of minutes ball in play in the recent England vs NZ league match: 53 - out of 80.

There is no hiding place in league for unfit players. Even guys like Jonathon Davies and Scott Gibbs who've played both admit as much.

Nothing winds me up more in sport than watching a Union fullback receive the ball from a long punt - and then kick it into the bloody stands!

The FORCE is with Rugby, not Mungo-ball.

Number of minutes ball in play in the recent England vs NZ union match: 31 - out of 80.
Number of minutes ball in play in the recent England vs NZ league match: 53 - out of 80.

But thats the difference right there.

When the ball is "out of play" in Union the forwards are working hard in rucks and mauls to win the ball for the backs.

In league, everyone is waiting for a man to roll a ball between his legs.

Plus, I was talking about top flight internationally rugby, hence rendering your arguement involving England null and void.

Say what you want, in both union and league, England just don't have it anymore.

But thats the difference right there.

When the ball is "out of play" in Union the forwards are working hard in rucks and mauls to win the ball for the backs.

Believe it or not - those figures INCLUDE rucks and mauls.

Plus, I was talking about top flight internationally rugby, hence rendering your arguement involving England null and void.

Ouch.

Say what you want, in both union and league, England just don't have it anymore.

Lack of good players. Chronically so in the case of League. I mean - the pack is pretty good (especially with the likes of Peacock, Graham, Roby and Burgess in it), but if someone had told me three years ago that our starting centre partnership today would be Senior and Gleeson I'd have probably given up. Those guys were finished then!

And there's the age-old question of where do find a good scrum half? The last talented kid we produced was Goulding (fifteen or more years ago). The last GOOD SH was Gregory, which is 20+!

The implementation of the salary cap and 20-20 rule (and such) have improved things, but not as much as I'd like. It's just impossible to compete when the league is producing 2 or 3 good kids per year whilst there are CLUBS in Australia doing double that figure!

eNGLAND WILL LOSE TO fRANCE AGAIN

Rugby league is for people who didn't have the fitness to play union.

It is the equivalent of amatuer boxing to the pros, a watered down version of a real sport.

I don't think thats true, if anything the amount of exertion is probably more in league. I always found the whole idea of scrumming every 5 minutes quite ridiculous. Whose idea was the scrum anyway?! How did they imagine that up?

I always enjoyed League far more than Union. But as Squeelpig says...

Absolutely untrue. You need considerably more fitness to play League. But you don't need as much brains to understand the rules, hence the widespread appeal in Yorkshite.


so..aye.. that could be why.

They are both 2 different typed of games and League has alot more continuity in it. Union has alot more passing and tactics but is slower although very tough with all the scrums. I can't watch either TBH, because nowadays it is just boxing and football for me all the way. At school I enjoyed playing League more than Union, but watched more Union because Jonah Lomuh was the man back then! That cocksucker was fast, but I bet he enjoyed getting hugs in the scrum the fagget! I playerd scrum half, prop forward and hooker positions. I wasn't cheap in the last role either, just ask yer mums lads, lol.