Rugby and League MERGER.

[Dismal Pillock]

Now, I havent seen any Rugby League games since the 1980's but hear me out u psychos.

Rugby is dying.

League seems to still have the same tiny footprint its always had worldwide.....

MERGE.

MERGE!

MONORAIL!

MONORAIL!

Rules Proposals Which I Haven't Thought Through At All.

From RL:

- 13 players


From Rugby:

- lineouts
mauls
- rucking (no more of that horrific "cleanout" bullshit that replaced rucking where some poor schmuck is expected to bend over and compete for the ball as some 130 kg lummox has a free shot at the poor exposed plonkers neck and spine ffs)


TL/DR;

 

[SouthernX]

No

 

[Slim 293]

Were you sent here by the Devil?

 

[A mutterer]

so dismal you're at the bargaining stage of the 7 stages of grief?

 

[Dismal Pillock]

OH SHIT, you mean there's 2 more?

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Amidst the chundering, roiling, rolodexed sea that is my failed threads, this one is perhaps my nadir. An utter, utter wasteland of disengagement and disinterest. My Thread Starter Focus Group are going to feel the backlash over this.

Let's review the replies to date:

"No"

"Get fucked"

"You dick"

"Ah cahnt spake"

"No"

"Are you from space?"

"Were you sent here by the devil?"

"Thread starter is probably the Wollongong Tri-State Rapist"

Oh well, hopefully @zer0 will be along shortly to clean up the mess.

Again.

 

[zer0]

What's this authoritarian anti fReH sPeEsH bullshit smh.

Proletariat shitposters revolution to topple tsar Cyclo and install a Maximilien Pillokspierre reign of terror when?

 

[qwerty51]

I actually think this will happen eventually, maybe in 20-25 years time.

 

[cyclopath]

Were you sent here by the Devil?

Not even Satan knows what to do with Dismal.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Google SPONSOR:

 

[cyclopath]

Nobody is ready! You can't handle the Cyclo!

 

[kiap]

"Ah cahnt spake"

For some reason this gets my vote.

 

[Marce]

Impossible, mate. The succes of NRL and the League community in Australia are the rivals. Most of the Kiwis living in OZ are converting to League, so the threat to League becomes the number one code in Oceania is real. In fact, is the most popular rugby code in Oceania in registered players (Australia + Papua New Guinea)

 

[Dismal Pillock]

From Rugby:

Scrums. 8 men. But no more of this laboriously asinine "pinch, squeeze, fart, squint, crouch, touch, pivot, engage, ahh fuck reset" bullshit. Lock up THEN push. Ball in. That's it. Scrum collapse? @Pfitzy will know what to do. And no, it's NOT another scrum reset.

 

[Pfitzy]

Get the ref out of the way. Unless it's me.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

These are precarious times. New Zealand Rugby knows that its stadia are letting down its fans due to 20 years of under-investment. It knows that the current model of Super Rugby is unworkable, with five Australian teams stuffed with “journeymen Kiwis or players from the UK where the market has gone to c..p.” And it is annoyed at Steve Hansen for preaching from his pedestal in Japan and then nicking its players.

 

[kiap]

Your man really nails the Lehman's collapse analogy with canes losing $691.25 big ones

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

I got as far as Mark Reason...

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Your man

 

[Dan54]

I actually think this will happen eventually, maybe in 20-25 years time.

Do you think league will only last that long gwerty? It maybe merge in Aus one day, but the rest will carry on, quite happily.
I will add I will be 88=93 by then and probably won't know what is what anyway.