rugby league or rugby union ?

[CHANCE]

which one is better league or union ?

[liam2me]

rugby league isn't real rugby

[Riordan]

union

[CHANCE]

rugby league isn't real rugby

what is it then ? Why has it the word rugby in it.

[liam2me]

what is it then ? Why has it the word rugby in it.
sure american football has the word "football" in it but they never touch it with thier feet. it ain't real rugby i'm tellin ya

[Johnnyc]

sure american football has the word "football" in it but they never touch it with thier feet.

What about field goals?

[liam2me]

era yeah thats a dead ball situation and amounts to maybe 5 kicks in a game, football to me implies a game where kicking the thing is the main means of playing the game

[hughjass]

Rugby league sucks. They just chopped half of the game out - no mauls, no scrums, no forward play at all really. Rugby union has all the pace and skill of rugby league (take Leinster, for example), combined with the physicality and muscle of the forward play (Munster, for example). I think most Irish people hugely prefer union, and for good reasons too.

[Tube a Pringles]

It's suprising how much league is played during union training sessions. It's a brilliant way of instilling 15 man rugby into the forwards, and teaching the backs how to go into the contact properly.

[Lamps]

era yeah thats a dead ball situation and amounts to maybe 5 kicks in a game, football to me implies a game where kicking the thing is the main means of playing the game

out of the 15 players on a rugby team , you'd be lucky to have 3 or 4 who could consistently kick the ball where they wanted to.

[Rebelred]

sure american football has the word "football" in it but they never touch it with thier feet. it ain't real rugby i'm tellin ya
yes they do, not often, but they do

[liam2me]

out of the 15 players on a rugby team , you'd be lucky to have 3 or 4 who could consistently kick the ball where they wanted to.
i think you've just missed the point

[aahjay]

Rugby league sucks. They just chopped half of the game out - no mauls, no scrums, no forward play at all really. Rugby union has all the pace and skill of rugby league (take Leinster, for example), combined with the physicality and muscle of the forward play (Munster, for example). I think most Irish people hugely prefer union, and for good reasons too.

They have scrums. Not many mind you.

No line-outs.

[liam2me]

sure why do ya think league players come to union and not the other way round

[aahjay]

sure why do ya think league players come to union and not the other way round

Back in the day, they did.

'Course, that was for da money.

[hughjass]

They have scrums. Not many mind you.

No line-outs.

Theyre not real scrums. They just feed the ball in and play it out straight away, theyre never contested properly.

[Proinsias]

League is a good game, it's brilliant to play (although tiring), but a touch repetitive when watched IMO.


It's a halfway house between rugby and soccer. Not really massively related to rugby union any more, although England are doiing all they can to turn union into league...

[xvis]

i find that the differences between Rugby Union and Rugby League is pretty much similar to the differences between Roman Catholicism Christianity and Protestant Christianity


....sure there are differences and splits that are down to old politics but at the end of the day it's pretty much the same thing...

[raZor]

sure even the ball is different.

League is very repetitive when watching a full game, excellent for the highlights, the guys are something like 4 times fitter than union players and it took Iustan Harris(sp?) the Welsh lad 2 season to regain his league fitness after converting back. League lacks the basics as well like first man up tackles they're all for big hits rather than dropping the man and not giving him that extra 3/4 yards.

However mentioned that it's used in union training is right great for fitness but so is touch rugby!