I never realised the nazis were that taken with odds and ends of cloth....never mind destroying RL in southern France and elsewhere.....

nah SL is fine.

RL in england has decades of growth ahead of it

funnily i always associate a stronger nrl with a stronger SL and the nrl is going from strength to strength

club union is flogging a dead horse

with saturation media coverage they still get poor club crowds and the clubs are all (or 90% of them) losing millions

SL should just continue improving as a competition and it will become the 2nd most popular football code.

The first bit is a given with you btw...

Moreover, I don't buy the analogy unless you add some other factors, such as in the case of dark (union) versus milk (rugby league) chocolate:

1. dark chocolate advocates tipped glass in the milk chocolate mixing tanks;
2. dark chocolate advocates flooded the milk chocolate factory so they couldn't make chocolate;
3. dark chocolate lobbied the government to outlaw milk chocolate;
4. dark chocolate used its political position to try and introduce a law stating "all milk to be used in chocolate making was to be restricted to the making of dark chocolate (whether required or otherwise)";
5. milk chocolate was renamed "not quite dark chocolate" etc. etc.

Club Rugby Union seems to be going from strength to strength in this country and its still so painful to watch. It was just an observation that if the RU premiership flowed as well as these few S14 games I watched, we'd be in trouble.

Crowds are falling. The people have awaken to the awful product.

I noticed that the Russian government has made league clubs switch to union in the hope of winning gold in 7's at London 2012.