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Hi I was just wondering if there are any fans of both codes of rugby like myself on these forums and what do other RU fans think of RL.
Hi I was just wondering if there are any fans of both codes of rugby like myself on these forums and what do other RU fans think of RL.
I wonder if you are trolling, but here goes anyway....Hi I was just wondering if there are any fans of both codes of rugby like myself on these forums and what do other RU fans think of RL.
haha funny. I'll show that to some of my league friends - I wonder if they'll laugh?
I wonder if you are trolling, but here goes anyway....
The main reason that the AB's are any good is that RL is so popular in Australia.
While many of the mungoballers would be no good at rugby is that many of them have never had any genuine exposure to the game.
Can you imagine if there was no mungoball in the eastern states and we had 19 full time professional Rugby Union franchises - the NRL teams and the S14 RU teams?
How good would the wobbolies be?
Secondly, I get annoyed at the rubbish that the RL mungos constantly trot out about Rugby union and their uninformed view of the skills required. They claim that RL teaches kids to tackle properly. Absolute hogwash. NRL is about one player running into or 4 others who collectively stop and wrestle the ball carrier to the ground. Hardly a tackle. I very seldom see a genuine one on one tackle in RL at whatever level - kids league up to NRL. At most times in RL the one on one tackles are missed.
NRL tactics = count to five and kick the ball. One, two, three, four, five, kick. There are five fingers on your hand to help the mungoballers keep count!
The benefits of RL are that this sport keeps certain boganesque types away from Rugby, both players, parents and supporters.
Rugby players get fined for food fights, while RL players are regularly on the front pages for issues like defecating in public, glassing women, drunk driving, drunkenness, and more serious crimes.
RL would like to be thought of as the sport of the battler, the victim or the underprivileged. It helps their tribal marketing. They actually thrive in the inappropriate behaviour by their players. Free marketing. As long as they have most NRL games televised, this is free advertising. Everyone always talks about the drunkard uncle who turns up for the family christmas party and makes a complete twat of himself. The pleasant polite and well behaved moderately successful uncle rarely gets a second mention. The car smash syndrome.
There are very few RL players who are encouraged to further their education.
Despite Rugby joining RL as a professional sport in 1995, the players are still encouraged to study for a profession.
RL types claim Rugby is boring. These same people would claim that the card game "bridge" is boring, and would prefer "snap" because there is plenty of fast action in "snap". (also you do not need to think too much about snap). Same argument for Snooker vs Pool, Croquet vs Bowls, Chess vs checkers, etc.
How boring and repetitive is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, kick RL?
I actually prefer to watch Aerial Ping Pong (AFL) over Mungoball (NRL) on the TV anyday. Just do not let any of my mexican and western aus mates know this.
Really chalk and cheese.
Enough said.