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<blockquote data-quote="best_fullback" data-source="post: 415218" data-attributes="member: 15318"><p>Have to say I totally agree with both the views presented here, and I especially enjoyed your analogy between the codes, sanzar! To me I can also draw an analogy with taking my mum to see sport events. She isn't really into her sport, and although she used to come and see me play for my Union side when I was in the U16s-Colts, she still thinks a ruck is essentially a fight - so the more simple a sport is to grasp the more she enjoys it. </p><p></p><p>When she went to see a league game she thought it was fantastic - you always get the big hits and powerful running. All that you really need to explain is the 6 tackle rule; 'we'll worry about 40/20s when one happens' etc. Similarly when we went to see Aussie Rules she loved that. Admittedly it was a really close game between two rivals (St Kilda v Geelong) so we were quite lucky in that respect. As long as she understood that it was basically netball with a rugby ball, and kicking it through the middle posts awards 6 points instead of 1 for the other two, then she was pretty content. </p><p></p><p>However, like I said with Union, there is so much she doesn't,<em> still</em>, understand that is pretty critical to the working of the game. Considering I don't fully understand scrums still indicates, for me at least, the amount that can possibly go wrong in a game of union. Scrums, rucks (and both of their respective dictionaries of infringements), mauls, lineouts (+ quick lineouts), place kicking, territory kicking (+ rules of when you can and can't kick out of touch on the full) + anything and everything else mean that the variation of possible tactics and outcomes of games can be massive. Whereas in league you are, in very simplistic terms, restricted to 5 attacks and then a kick it means there is a lot more certainty as to what you will see (as mentioned before: big hits, powerful running) and therefore it means that League is never really dreadfully boring. In Union none of that is guaranteed. You may see 80 mins of incredibly boring pick-and-goes and kicking, or you incredibly dynamic attacking, committed defence and intelligent kicking.</p><p></p><p>I suppose that is the risk we all know we take when we watch Union!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="best_fullback, post: 415218, member: 15318"] Have to say I totally agree with both the views presented here, and I especially enjoyed your analogy between the codes, sanzar! To me I can also draw an analogy with taking my mum to see sport events. She isn't really into her sport, and although she used to come and see me play for my Union side when I was in the U16s-Colts, she still thinks a ruck is essentially a fight - so the more simple a sport is to grasp the more she enjoys it. When she went to see a league game she thought it was fantastic - you always get the big hits and powerful running. All that you really need to explain is the 6 tackle rule; 'we'll worry about 40/20s when one happens' etc. Similarly when we went to see Aussie Rules she loved that. Admittedly it was a really close game between two rivals (St Kilda v Geelong) so we were quite lucky in that respect. As long as she understood that it was basically netball with a rugby ball, and kicking it through the middle posts awards 6 points instead of 1 for the other two, then she was pretty content. However, like I said with Union, there is so much she doesn't,[I] still[/I], understand that is pretty critical to the working of the game. Considering I don't fully understand scrums still indicates, for me at least, the amount that can possibly go wrong in a game of union. Scrums, rucks (and both of their respective dictionaries of infringements), mauls, lineouts (+ quick lineouts), place kicking, territory kicking (+ rules of when you can and can't kick out of touch on the full) + anything and everything else mean that the variation of possible tactics and outcomes of games can be massive. Whereas in league you are, in very simplistic terms, restricted to 5 attacks and then a kick it means there is a lot more certainty as to what you will see (as mentioned before: big hits, powerful running) and therefore it means that League is never really dreadfully boring. In Union none of that is guaranteed. You may see 80 mins of incredibly boring pick-and-goes and kicking, or you incredibly dynamic attacking, committed defence and intelligent kicking. I suppose that is the risk we all know we take when we watch Union! [/QUOTE]
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