No chance. You could only do something like that if the sport was really popular and people were calling it that anyway.

I'm a fan of both codes but I always make a point of calling it the rugby union world cup. Or if both the England union and league teams have played on the same day and someone asks me if I watched the England rugby game, I always ask whether they mean the union game or the league game.

They're more reason to hate the people that run or associate with the game, rather than the game itself.


And they aren't reasons to hate the game either. RL is a far superior game to play and watch than all sports IMO, which is why I love it. But it doesn't stop me liking other sports.

The reason why I can't stand union is because it's boring, slow, ridiculously complicated for the sake of being complicated rather than any kind of entertainment reason, and nothing really happens.

Not strictly true, but hey ho.....

the difference for me is simple - League is entertaining at any level from schoolboy up to international because the rules & make up of the game allows it but in Union I only find the top level having any entertainment level.Get below the top level then the game is stop-start because the rules don't allow for sub-standard union leagues.
League flows at the same rate more or less at whichever level you watch it IMO.
Never had the chance to play League unfortunately being from rural norfolk but did play a bit of Union which was mega-boring...

[BERNARD MANNING MODE]You can paint it black and call it kizzy for all I care[BERNARD MANNING MODE]
Just so long as I can watch it I don't give a flying one what it's called...some people have too much time on their hands

On second thoughts...call it The X-League.......look at how many muppets tune into the simon cowell bollox......it's the future