Quote: rollin thunder "Utterly laughable to sugest Union is a more skillfull code, and as for it being loved the world over, yes it has a better spread than League, but it is still only a niche market in a few pockets around the world, ice hockey, field hockey, basketball, cricket, baseball, all have a bigger world wide presence, ice hockey second only to football across central europe scandinavia and eastern europe. Only in New zealand is union the number one sport, an insignificant island of 10 million people’s just off Antarctica.'"
I disagree. Some of the skills. Now on show particularly among the backs is a lot closer to RL than it was 10 years ago let alone 20 years ago.
Their short kicking game has got better , they are more able to break down defences. The massive number of ex league players now coaching RU is leading to massive improvements. In another few years there will not be as much difference.
If they dropped down to 13 players the handling skills would be as good as in RL even quicker.
Not necessarily at club level but at the highest club level and international level the passing moves are a lot slicker than it was.
You can stick your head in the sand like a lot of diehard rl fans but you are wrong