Are NRL players eligible for Olympics?

[taste2taste]

I guess it depends if professional players are allowed? And if the ARU picks the team?

If the ARU aren't picking the team there's no reason NRL players wouldn't be chosen. Especially of they want the strongest possible team???

 

[Loudstrat]

Every human is eligible for the olympics. They just have to meet whatever time/distance/height/points/whatever they need to get selected.

An NRL plyer getting selected for Yawnion 7's is like getting selected for sleep apnoea.

 

[Brutus]

Who gives a f**k.

 

[BuffaloRules]

No reason they wouldn't be chosen?

How about the fact they are contracted to play NRL and that their clubs would not release them?

But more importantly as if Union would give the NRL more publicity than it currently gets.

Are you aware of some tension between the 2 sports?

 

[hineyrulz]

If NRL players were allowed the only yawnion player who would maybe crack the side is Falonk.

 

[byrner]

I been thinking about this, the NRL should come out and offer their players for the Olympics. It would put the ARU on show as there is no way they would pick them.

 

[Parra]

Are you aware of some tension between the 2 sports?

Only in the heads of nutters.


It would be great to see the NRL players considered for selection. But the rules aren't as simple as what is implied above. It is not good enough to just be good, an athlete needs to be affiliated and qualified.

 

[Teddyboy]

How about a Trans-Tasman 7's comp with NRL and S15 teams every year.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

How about a Trans-Tasman 7's comp with NRL and S15 teams every year.

How about you lay off the hard stuff Ted.

I don't want league players at the Olympics. Rugby 7s is as big a joke as synchronised swimming, beach volleyball and BMX riding.

 

[Loudstrat]

Are you aware of some tension between the 2 sports?

Only in the heads of nutters.

Like the ARU, IRB and every other Union nutter who still mumbles obseneties in their cognac about the trechery of 1895 and 1908........

It would be great to see the NRL players considered for selection. But the rules aren't as simple as what is implied above. It is not good enough to just be good, an athlete needs to be affiliated and qualified.

What? Now they have to do a f*cking qualification? What is that qualification? Cert IV in Boredom?

And affiliated with what? The Fat Gimp Society?

Take Maitua and 6 other Parra rejects and gold is guaranteed.

 

[taste2taste]

Personally I'd love to watch the leaguies smash the rara's at their own game.


http://m.smh.com.au/rugby-league/le...at-union-at-their-own-game-20100331-reyz.html

Keebra sports high league team won the rugby 7's a few years back.

 

[Perth Red]

No as they would need to be registered with the Union org in their country. Now if the RLIF ever got its act together and developed a proper RL 9's world competition & decent RL development in new countries we could see RL in the Olympics, but not going to happen in my lifetime with the self interest of country and club being put before welfare of the whole game.

 

[Parra]

How about you lay off the hard stuff Ted.

I don't want league players at the Olympics. Rugby 7s is as big a joke as synchronised swimming, beach volleyball and BMX riding.

That sums it up well.

 

[Loudstrat]

No as they would need to be registered with the Union org in their country. Now if the RLIF ever got its act together and developed a proper RL 9's world competition & decent RL development in new countries we could see RL in the Olympics, but not going to happen in my lifetime with the self interest of country and club being put before welfare of the whole game.

Are you ever going to be anything other than a whinging pom?

 

[Teddyboy]

7's Rugby Union didn't do any harm for Wigan and Bradford.

 

[madunit]

Most of the 1908 wallabies who won gold at the London Olympics defected to league the year after.

The ARU thought RL wouldn't last when it started in 1908, but they did their best to make life hard for RL.

The Wallabies defections in 1909 was the catalyst for the hatred that still exists today.

They thought it immoral that players get paid instead of the game administrators. By keeping the players unpaid, they kept the games integrity pure & intact, in their view.

 

[Knownothing]

Most of the 1908 wallabies who won gold at the London Olympics defected to league the year after.

The ARU thought RL wouldn't last when it started in 1908, but they did their best to make life hard for RL.

The Wallabies defections in 1909 was the catalyst for the hatred that still exists today.

They thought it immoral that players get paid instead of the game administrators. By keeping the players unpaid, they kept the games integrity pure & intact, in their view.

Many sports were amateur, for many years. Not only rugby union. Tennis for example, only amateurs could play in the Davis Cup, Wimbledon, etc, until 1968 I think it was. Athletics, swimming, all the Olympic sports were also amateur.

The antipathy between the two rugby codes has more to do with class and sectarian rivalries than anything else (in Australia at least). Professionals in all sports were thought to be inferior to the "gentlemen" so called, who played the sport for love. Look up the root of the word "amateur".


English cricket had a Gentlemen vs Players match every season for many years. No prizes for guessing who the "gentlemen" were.