You can't compare established first graders such as Lote, Wendell, and Rogers to a kid who chose league.Woods99 said:Misty Bee,
Bought by rugby union from rugby league? Lote, Wendell, and Mat Rogers.
Bought by rugby league from rugby union? Far too many to list here. Including Benji!!!
Blaze said:Tbh a good game of union is a decent specatcle. Watch the bledisloe cup match from 2000 in Sydney that the All Blacks beat the Wallabies 39-35. Rated by many as the best game ever.
Woods99 said:Eastwood vs Sydney University, ABC television, 3.10 pm today.
Blaze said:Tbh a good game of union is a decent specatcle. Watch the bledisloe cup match from 2000 in Sydney that the All Blacks beat the Wallabies 39-35. Rated by many as the best game ever.
Blaze said:Tbh a good game of union is a decent specatcle. Watch the bledisloe cup match from 2000 in Sydney that the All Blacks beat the Wallabies 39-35. Rated by many as the best game ever.
tiger_nick said:So you have to go back 5 years to find a decent game?
Misty Bee said:I'm sure it is the game they play in heaven - but they don't tell you about the rule changes - 6 tackle rule, 13 players, goals only worth 2 points, forwards without beer guts - no lineouts, no stomping on heads, no amphetamines in the crowd to keep them awake.
Woods99 said:If you believe that the "rugby" part of "rugby league" is important, then no doubt you will be honouring Sydney University today, the club that started your game here in Australia.
Just as we were all Catholics before the reformation, there is a shared rugby tradition before 1908. Unless, that is, you want to give up the name "rugby".
Eastwood vs Sydney University, ABC television, 3.10 pm today.
Murphdogg1 said:Rugby Union is an awesome game
granted Australian style union i believe is completely boring, phases, the induviduality coming from the leaguies such as Tuquiri and Rogers but union in NZ is a different story, much more free flowing and exciting like league in Australia
i love both League and Union, both have strengths and weaknesses so there it is
All were RL juniors at one stage....Timmy Horan, Jason Little, and David Campese, or the Ella brothers...
Woods99 said:Many of the best young rugby union players in Australia go to rugby league, simply because there are more openings and more money, plus rugby league player agents are numerous, and attend all the junior tournaments.
Plus NRL clubs are prepared to take kids on far younger than the rugby union franchises. Benji, for example, got an offer at an age far younger than he would have had from rugby union in either New Zealand or Australia.
You have a very short memory if you think the Australian style of rugby union is boring. It was Australia that forced the end of the "kick out on the full" rule which used to apply on the whole field, not just the 25/22. You are probably too young to remember the Wallabies sides of the 1989 Grand Slam, or the sides of the nineties, with players like Timmy Horan, Jason Little, and David Campese, or the Ella brothers earlier on. Boring? The ACT Brumbies also boring? Randwick and Eastwood boring?
Sorry, old mate, you need to get your New Zealand blinkers off.
Gunnamatta said:Like watching paint dry.
Woods99 said:It must be a bit lonely for Benji when he goes back home to New Zealand. All those boring rugby union fans.