Quote Cruncher="Cruncher"After that Barbarians game today I'm not quite sure why we're talking to Rugby Union about anything. There is certainly nothing they can teach us about playing rugby, and in terms of offering rugby as entertainment, our Under 9s could give them a university education.'"
I agree and thats why we should not play under those hybrid rules, they were dreamt up by largely Rugby Union people and it shows. A Union team should win every time and I would hate to give them some sort of supremacy by beating us, or any RL team, in rules that are much more suited to them.
I dont even really see why any League or Union team should pander to these cowboys/promoters, who are only interested in the money anyway. If it has to be done, and I really dont see why, then come up with better, fairer rules and by completely bypass external promoters who will only take a cut of the profits.
By playing RU rules in the attacking half it means that a League team has to score the Union way i.e rucks and mauls or score from their own half. How is this fair? In addition with the Union team gauranteed 6 tackles in their own half they can still work their way down the field and if they pass half way then can just keep the ball and score with their own rules. They are a joke.