It's very difficult when you keep spouting such utter crap. I'm worried about the image Union and its supporters will get when the League boys, all of whom actually have two brain-cells to rub together, pick your argument to bits and make you look even more of an idiot.
It is, and there have been some decent arguments here already. However, your thread basically drew people in because it was so clearly bullshit and seemed like the argument of a 5 year old... I don't mind you arguing the differences, but you haven't really done that, you've just come up with rubbish about union being the first etc, and won't accept that it's ********.
I will admit that League has a better structure, and that many League players have made an immediate impact on union when they crossed over
Not trying to have a dig but Union was spread around the world by the British Army. League was banned by the British Army.
That'd be like telling Yanks that NFL is **** sport because only they play it...
It is likely that the British army helped the spreading of Rugby in the world ... ruled by the British. I think that in the rest of the world it was rather the British merchants and sailors who contributed to the spreading of Rugby.
I can only think of France that is a traditional Union playing country that wasn't part of the Empire.
Yes, but have they always been popular.
Well, there are other places in the worl that play American football, but there are certain inconvieniences that make it a little bit less popular (All the money you have to pay for equipment for instance). So in my mind that does make Am. football less good then other sports.
I know what you mean, and at different times I prefer both of them... I like League because it's a game based around heavy collisions and clever attack, there are no real scrums or anything so the game never really slows down. I like Union because of the constant contest for the ball, and the fact that broken play is generally more common and exciting than in league due to the fact forwards get tied up more.
I don't know if you know how much trouble Butch James gets in for those, especially when he shoulder charged Johnny Wilkinson when SA lost 53-3 to England. I think allowing shoulder charges will be a very bad idea firstly it mostly gets used as a late tackle and secondly there is NO technique to it, we will just have these gorilla men ramming the crap out of guys... not cool. The drop kick topic is a tough one since they aren't really that easy to do but it did make Englands world cup victory seem that much easier.
Yeah forget it. I was just trying to find a way to make my post less pointless.
Shoulder charges cop peneties in league if they're late and do take a fair bit of technique, as if you don't time it exactly right you'll likely miss the player...
