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Australian rugby/RA

Strewthcobber

Strewthcobber

Nick Farr-Jones (63)
Dctarget said:
no scrums or lineouts I presume? Surely the union team when defending in their own half would just pilfer the ball every ruck.
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I think you're understimating how much rugby union (at least some) players at a "rugby league school" will have played.

Just like half the Wallabies having played league to a pretty decent juniour standard
 
The Ghost of Raelene

The Ghost of Raelene

John Eales (66)
It's very different. Most in juniors can excel through being good athletes but when senior HS sides teams start just pick n go for phase after phase and throw body in the rucks it's a different world. It's not similar at all and you only have to watch Rugby players players play touch against Leagies to see how lost Rugby players are in League style attacks.
 
Omar Comin'

Omar Comin'

Peter Fenwicke (45)
Dctarget said:
no scrums or lineouts I presume? Surely the union team when defending in their own half would just pilfer the ball every ruck.
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Wests Magpies beat Randwick in 2015 under the same rules. Union rules in the attacking half does favour the union side, but it's very continuous which suits the league conditioning, and the league side will make breaks from their own half and score some long range tries. Even when tackled they can sometimes go through 2 or 3 quick phases under union rules if they've got some momentum and the defence is going backwards. If they get slowed down they'll get turned over pretty easily, but there's a 60 second shot clock anyway, so you have to go fairly helter skelter in attack.

There's a potential hack for the union team to just camp themselves on the halfway line in defence - concede that first 50m every time to the league side but it would mean your defence is set when they have to attack under union rules. They'd presumably have to ban that tactic as I can't see how the league team would have a chance against it.

It's all pretty gimmicky and I can't imagine either code wants to risk losing to the other at the professional level. What seems more possible would be an Australia vs New Zealand hybrid match, with both teams a 50/50 mix of union and league players.
 
Wilson

Wilson

Tim Horan (67)
Omar Comin' said:
There's a potential hack for the union team to just camp themselves on the halfway line in defence - concede that first 50m every time to the league side but it would mean your defence is set when they have to attack under union rules. They'd presumably have to ban that tactic as I can't see how the league team would have a chance against it.
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That's a very big backfield to defend with only 13 on the field
 
The Ghost of Raelene

The Ghost of Raelene

John Eales (66)
Fuck it one of each like the English did with the Clash of the Codes between Bath and Wigan

Rugby game: Bath 44 d Wigan 19
League game: Wigan 82 d Bath 6

What a time to just tell the fellas hey guess what your'e packing a scrum.
 
KOB1987

KOB1987

John Eales (66)
It's a schoolboy game, Barker v St Gregs I think. No doubt just a bunch of year 11s looking for a challenge, probably wouldn't even have made the news except Ivan Cleary come out and moronically endorsed it.
 
WorkingClassRugger

WorkingClassRugger

Michael Lynagh (62)
KOB1987 said:
It's a schoolboy game, Barker v St Gregs I think. No doubt just a bunch of year 11s looking for a challenge, probably wouldn't even have made the news except Ivan Cleary come out and moronically endorsed it.
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That's interesting actually as Greg's also plays Rugby. Though it is primarily a border sport so I don't know how much cross over there would be.
 
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