Yeah either the RU or some other party with something to gain from RL being banned.
Sounds like your stock standard "RU is the only rugby" move to me.
I know this has been suggested a million times, but it'd be quite a bit harder for the Unions to pull these kinds of stunts if we changed the name of RL to something else, maybe we should officially change the name of the sport to just League, so on paper at least we aren't a rugby code.
How you'd go about officially changing the name I don't know.
Maybe? Frikin maybe?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What have I bn saying for the last 5 plus yrs!!!!
We're named after an In-glish fee paying school, do you want to be? Especially after seeing that rubbish that was in front of me earlier (Wimbledon tennis that it by the way, I was eating and the ppl eating wiv me wanted to watch da tenis).
The NSWRL said in 1922 we'll come up with another name replacing RL quite soon. How frikin long is "soon"?
But as has been said, footy hasn't bn banned in Russia.
If rugby though that us using the term rugby league was good for us, or bad for them then they would have used copyright law to stop us from using it, but it suits them for us to use rugby league as it promotes their game, and it can help them in saying to governments, "look we're the real rugby, just use us".
I was reading a rugby forum last month, and they were going on about a possible split in rugby union regarding possible law changes, and they said that rugby's laws are copyright, and if we decided to bring back some of our previous rules from 100 plus yrs ago then they could stop us, for example bringing back the continuous ruck instead of play-the-ball, just to say I think play-the-ball was a genius idea that we should stick with it.
