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the japanese have figure skating as their second highest viewed program :P

Thanks for the kind words As for homogenisation in Union, it is obviously no where near where it is with league and it will never be whilst there are line outs and scrums. However outside of scrums and line outs forwards are more and more expected to have half decent awareness of where to run...

A lot of the terminology is due to the fact that league has the same commentators as it did when the game was a lot different with contested scrums etc etc. Ie rabs, gould played or watched in that era. You are right that the positions are becoming more homogenised in league. Its also easier...

As for the rugby league being a low scoring affair, whilst for rugby league it probably was slightly on the low side, there were still 5 tries scored. Put that in perspective, Aus v England only had 4 and was from an Australian perspective a very satisfying encounter. Oddly enough, if rugby...

Whilst I agree that it would do both codes a world of good to just merge. I disagree with league being the imperial and union being the metric. Union has always been slower to change and adapt its systems for various reasons, mainly it was over a bigger geographic area so it is harder to...

Although I agree with the sentiment re golden point, I dont see why you cant just keep having extra periods of time ala basketball until you get a result. You will still get field goals, but the other side will get a chance to return serve. In any event, the actual game itself was very open...

good post mxy.

Good to see the Melbourne city council using its money wisely then.

TBH I agree with you. Once you choose a nation you should have to stick to it, atleast for a number of years. Although I imagine the governing body are looking at something like that. The problem is two fold:- 1 - the depth of international talent isn't there to keep matches competitive...

Wookie, since you have taken the battle to semantics. Why, on a rugby union website refer to the ancestry rule in a rugby league context, when the rule is used across both codes (and through out a lot of other codes and organisations throughout the world), if it is not to conveniently try and...

The grandfather rule which is used in league union and soccer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_rule League uses it the most because it has the smallest international pool of players to pick from of the above three. Oddly enough you will probably find that union uses it more then...

another reason to question why they haven't run a proper professionally organised Australian Football League World Cup over the summer, lots to write about

Wookie, Wookie, Wookie...... This post is garbage and you know it, if the AFL could have made money out of a world cup they would have done so already. I mean really couldnt they just compete in the recently held gaelic football world cup? considering the international credibility the game...

I agree with franklind, re wales doing us a massive disservice. As awesome and funny as it would be to see england knocked out of their own world cup before the quarters would be, one would think they would have the requisite fire in the belly from the now dire situation and ref helping to get...

crickets world cups get slammed when they muck around and the world cup goes for too long. If you want more games for the shit sides.. I am not sure why thats necessary, its more about finding the best rugby side in the world, but if that is an important consideration. You have four groups of...

IMO the more teams the merrier. but having a 16 team second round will make the pool rounds irrelevant, with most of them progressing through. Losing interest, world cup lustre etc. IMO - you have 24 teams, with 8 groups of 3, winner progressing to the quarter finals. That way each game is...

true enough, for whatever reason i thought it was on sunday, i was wrong.

Inevitably, there are kids playing union who would prefer to be playing league and kids playing league who would prefer to be playing union. Just due to circumstance. Oddly enough in terms of professional opportunities, I think the rugby schools that dont support / push there kids playing sg...

working class ruggers post - kids dont care which one they play, they just play where they get the most opportunity, best opportunity to build a career etc. qwertys post - couldnt agree more, in fact they are all playing league but they actually deep down want to be playing union. I dont...

alot of media is rumor based. And there is always going to be rumors about people returning after rogers, tuqiri sailor etc. even sbw returned for a little bit to only return to union again... its not a sinister league thing , same stuff floats around in every part of the media, even if a...