If we stick to 13-a-side with kicking then i think we would have to stick with a 10m defensive line. I would still get rid of the VR though, IMO referees are given divine powers when they cross that white line, and unless they have fallen for the devil and taken money from criminals to fix a match, they are giving out God's justice, so if they miss a forward pass it's because it's because God wanted them to favour that team at that point in time. And commentators should never criticise a match official.

I would ban drop-goals from RL though, our sport doesn't lend itself to them IMO.

Well that is fair enough

Point entirely taken. In my experience I major on Rugby League and maybe I have been to an average of 20 games a season for the last 45 years 900 games......

I like soccer and get dragged into going a few times by friends, and I like to watch Notts County when I see friends in Nottingham. I may have attended 40 live soccer games.

Rugby Union? A friend of mine is a Worcester fan and qualifies for International tickets so I have seen games like Leeds.v. Worcester and England.v.Australia at Twickenham. I've maybe been to a dozen Rugby Union games.

So I take your point that few stick to one thing and but I maybe suggest though that many stick largely to their own personal preference once that preference becomes established, however they are not as you say averse to going to other events especially when invited?

Doesn’t that contradict the golden point?

As a lad in my youth both codes where prominent in my school. Teachers arguing who should be union and who should be league. I played union on a Saturday for the school but couldn’t play league for the school on the Sunday as I played for my community club on Sunday.

The point I’m making is the community club is the way I went as the focus was cup matches and playing for my home town club.

The game as moved on but lots of things have been left to dwell.

Obviously we'd have a golden try extra-time instead, which we should have had 10 yrs ago.

A golden try... ?...

Yes. Do you want to get rid of the VR?

Across the north Union minded sports teachers have imposed Rugby Union on schools where all the kids were Rugby League fans. I found this distasteful and wrong.

State schools?

That was exactly my experience. I went to a large State run comprehensive in East Leeds. Unsurprisingly, of the kids that liked rugby 99.9% of them were League fans. And yet the teaching staff were involved in Roundhegians RUFC so only allowed Union to be played. They also ran regular trips to Union games. Despite being in RL heartlands, and with a captive audience exclusively interested in League, they somehow got away with forcing everyone to play and watch Union. Just bizarre.

I have heard some things similar to this.