Wales vs Australia

[DanTheMan]

Heh wow you're a very confrontational person aren't you? I'm not going to get drawn into a slaggin match. I think that anybody who's read my posts will find it painfully obvious that I have quite a good understanding of the two codes and rugby in general.

Ok so there's different positions... maybe that's why code switchers spend their first season in the reserves learning them. I could be wrong but more than likely I'm right.

[Forumbore]

Heh wow you're a very confrontational person aren't you? I'm not going to get drawn into a slaggin match. I think that anybody who's read my posts will find it painfully obvious that I have quite a good understanding of the two codes and rugby in general.

Ok so there's different positions... maybe that's why code switchers spend their first season in the reserves learning them. I could be wrong but more than likely I'm right.

I am simply trying to get you away from your obsession with athleticism. Rugby League is a game for athletes and Union needs players like Johnson Jason Leonard and Graham Rowntree who are not athletes. A prop needs to be a big fat b****** and it is most unlikely that a league prop would be able to compete for a Union prop position in ten seasons let alone one.

Richie McCaw has a skill for competing for second phase ball that has been developed since he was a child. It is highly unlikely that a league player could develop these skills in one season. Not one single league player has( with even Andy Farrell failing) made the switch as a flanker or forward even.

For you to say that league players could switch is a facile argument. The only "switchable" positions are in the backs where players like Jonathan Davies, Tiquiri, Rogers and Jason Robinson have made the transformation. But that is because thay have exceptional talent. Very few league players make it in Union, simply because they have to do things that they never do in league. Union players do well in league because all they have to master is improving or changing slightly on skills that they are already used to using week in week out.

You may not agree but competing for second phase ball lineout throwing and jumping and scrummaging require a set of skills that develop over many years. They are not something that can be learnt in a season.

[Forumbore]

I dont know why I am doing this. I dont even like Rugby

[malvolio]

Let's get back to reality. Yes there are subtleties in League that the average Joe like me will miss, so what looks like a two thirds of the players trying to keep warm while three of them are doing their thing in the mud is quite probably a complete misconception.

But then again, I find Formula One interesting, not least becuase it demands a degree of knowledge that goes way beyond watching 22 cars in line astern. Equally, I hate watching MotoGP - arguably the greatest and probably most dangerous racing spectacle in the world - because the presentation is utterly crap and effortlessly manages to take all the excitement out of it. Which you could also say about Union on the Beeb, come to that.

[benn0]

He made the point that there were very few players actively engaged at any one time in league which, depending upon your definition of engagement, is true. You argued that the remaining players were engaged by virtue of the fact that they were constantly "positioning" themselves which is also true. For you to then say he is talking crap shows what an idiot you are.

I must admit your username sums you up perfectly.

[Forumbore]

I must admit your username sums you up perfectly.

I try to be objective