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It's been said that, a good compromise is were neither party is happy.

For me, I want rugby to be as big as football. If the best way to get this to compromise some of the elements from league and incorporate some elements from union then I'd personally go for it.

If in 20 years time from now we had one rugby, with all current league and union teams in england playing one unified code, and we had an equivalent to the champions league in Europe, I personally, would be very happy

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Not in favour of this if I'm honest.

RU bores me to death especially at club level.

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Let's imagine that, in the future, Union and League combine as a sort of hybrid code.
The sum of attendances for that hybrid code would be significantly smaller than the total attendances that League and Union get now.
So, it makes no business sense to combine or hybridise the codes and the fans of each code wouldn't want it.
So what's point of this proposed match other than as a curiosity and a "We'll show those ruggerbuggers" p!55!ng contest?

If I wanted to watch what I imagine to be working class lads stuffing it up the RFU, I'd simply support Wales.

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Lets get it right.There is a proposed hybrid game between RL club and a RU club,this is not going to create a 3rd code,nor is it going to leasd to a unification of the two codes.It will give both codes especially RL much needed publicity.Wont this make people think that we dont have that much faith in our own product,so we have to invent a hybrid mockup,and if the hybrid is a flop,they will think "well that was awful,wouldnt like to see the real thing".I just cant see the point IMO,and also remember the advent of 20-20 cricket!it started as a garden fete/festival thing,just a bit of fun,its not going to be involved in mainstream cricket,but once the Genie was out of the bottle,look at it now.Just a thought

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As I understand it, this hybrid concept is also going to be trialled in Australia with an NRL side playing against the All Blacks, having already had a couple of junior fixtures to try it out.

IMO it's fundamentally unsafe, simply because it has competitive scrums. A rugby league front rower has neither the body shape nor the technical knowledge and experience to safely scrummage competitively against their union counterparts. They would end up getting destroyed and you would have scrums collapsing left, right and centre exposing players to the risk of serious injury.

If I was in charge of a rugby league side, I wouldn't even consider it until such point as scrums are made non-competitive.

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Quote: Andy Gilder "As I understand it, this hybrid concept is also going to be trialled in Australia with an NRL side playing against the All Blacks, having already had a couple of junior fixtures to try it out.

IMO it's fundamentally unsafe, simply because it has competitive scrums. A rugby league front rower has neither the body shape nor the technical knowledge and experience to safely scrummage competitively against their union counterparts. They would end up getting destroyed and you would have scrums collapsing left, right and centre exposing players to the risk of serious injury.

If I was in charge of a rugby league side, I wouldn't even consider it until such point as scrums are made non-competitive.'"


Absolutely.

I remember the Wigan v Bath challenge matches: the only superiority the RU lads had was in the scrummaging. They won their challenge there.

Does any self respecting RL/SL/NRL fan want to see the return of this questionable "spectacle" in any match they watch ? Bad idea.

Any hybrid concept is a retrograde step; RU just needs to admit defeat and bow to the superiority of the better game that has had well over a hundred years head start.

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