Hopefully the WC has shown neutrals and union fans what league is all about we get more new fans and some converts. Would agree that League may have just clinched it in this article.

When I broke my tibia and fibula at Headingley RU, I was fortunate enough to be on the same pitch as two junior doctors doing their orthapaedics rotation at LGI. Timing

At my brother's club they have a 1st Team vs Vets full contact 80 min game at the end of every season, the Vets consisting of anyone who was unfortunate enough to be in the clubhouse when the captain, a rough tough Sth African who still thinks you are a wuss if you don't like the raw meat that he force feeds everyone from his braai at every fundraiser, comes around with his clipboard.

There has yet to be a year when someone doesn't get a serious injury and its usually on the Vets team and its usually ankles and knees from the head thinking that the body can still do things that time has prevented it from doing now - our kid did one of his knees in a couple of years ago just by stepping in a rut on a hard pitch - still its worth it to see every second scrum pause for the Vets front row to pass the cigarettes around.

I think the recent and new laws for the scrum encourage a dangerous big "hit" from each pack with a constant need to reset the scrums. I do not understand why they don't revert to the old laws that allowed the scrum to form in a stationary position with all binding correctly, and only when the ball is put in can the shove begin. I played a bit at scrum half and we used to have to say "ball coming in NOW" which was the signal for the hookers and pack to compete.

Not "technical" enough apparently.