Didn't realise that the other code had a little comp going on to be honest

I appreciate that. I played union for years, I coach kids, I'm heavily involved with our local club and my lad plays so it's a big part of my life. I can understand some of the anti-Union feelings amongst league fans, and you are correct, it's a different sport (with some very similar skills though) and it's not eveyone's cup of tea. At Under 10 level my lad practically plays RL, they hit the ball up hard and they tackle hard and move the ball around a lot. I even use RL as a coaching game.

I don't want England to lose, particulalry as half the guys I know at our club are Welsh and as part of our tour celebrations last year I made two of the Welsh lads in our team wear and England shirt and sing "Sweet Chariot" to their Dad's. On the other hand I have a bet with a couple of my ex-pat workmates in the US (one English the other Irish) on who the Lions Captain will be and had England won Chris Robshaw may have gotten the nod. There's some money on this and I'm from Yorkshire etc. etc.

It was nice to hear league defensive coaches getting some praise from Woodward at half time. Pity they aren't coaching in league though, eh?!

He employed Phil Larder, one of the most astute British league coaches.

One of the best decisions Woodward ever made.

I'm not sure if i should feel bad about it, but its the only time i'm happy to see an English sports team/man/woman lose...

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Quote: Harrigan "On another note too, who likes to see their national team lose at anything? '" How about this fella ? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/21795146 __________ My only real interest in Union is in hearing about England getting beat.

Quote: Harrigan "On another note too, who likes to see their national team lose at anything? '" How about this fella ? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/21795146 __________ My only real interest in Union is in hearing about England getting beat.

It takes two to tango - do you (Rogues) have a particular club in mind?

League doesn't really have an international aspect to occupy a top coach full-time - without treading on the toes of the club coaches - which I guess explains why we have a relative no-mark currently in charge of our national side.

Of all the players from the world cup winning team the one player they miss the most is Will Greenwood, the current England centres offer nothing and although Barritt will tackle anything but you need more at this level and Tuilangi is a strong runner but again is very one dimensional. To be fair though the back three are average as well, Ashton has been terrible in this in this 6 nations and has been found out big style, Goode is a fat cart horse who offers nothing from full back and Brown is playing out of position. I'm also not sure why Owen Farrell seems so highly rated, the 'related to panface syndrome' perhaps?

On a side note I think George North would be a superb RL player.

Good goal-kicker apparently as his 1 from 3 bears amply testament to. What's Sinfield for Leeds since the start of the play-offs in 2012 - 48 from 49 (98%)

I noted as someone said earlier that the MOTM made 4 carries for 35 meters in total (most of those presumably came from the break for the second/final try) and a monumental 8 tackles....... outstanding effort

Meanwhile at the same time in a proper game of rugby taking place in Huddersfield, Danny Houghton was making 65 tackles and plenty of other as yet unstatified contributions.

Back at the other event the referee was penalising virtually every scrum and at one point was telling the England hooker the precise blade of grass he had to stand on and woe-betide him if he chose to stand on even the one next to it. It took three attempts and he still managed to find an infringement somewhere for something or other..... against England obviously.