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| 117 years old today
Many happy returns  |
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No! 117 years since the Northern half of the game split away, we are as old as the game of Rugby is dont let the unenlightened half of the game steal our history as well as our players. Mind you it is worth celebrating the split.
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| 2 posts - and we can't even agree on this.
Only in Rugby League eh ?  |
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| Quote: Beverley red "No! 117 years since the Northern half of the game split away, we are as old as the game of Rugby is dont let the unenlightened half of the game steal our history as well as our players. Mind you it is worth celebrating the split.'"
Bet you're great fun at parties.
If we are being technical the birth was when football started.
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| Quote: PopTart "117 years old today
Many happy returns ![]()
Bah, it would be 118 if it hadnt been for the incompetent RFL, too many aussies over here and Wigan breaking the salary cap - in fact now you mention it I'm ripping up my season ticket as I am totally disillusioned with the game. 
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That's it! You are all off the party list now!
**Stomps away in drama queen fashion**
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| Quote: PopTart "
If we are being technical the birth was when football started.
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Please tell me you don't believe the Webb Ellis story? Rugby is not an offshoot from Association Football. |
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| Quote: Paul Thexton "Please tell me you don't believe the Webb Ellis story? Rugby is not an offshoot from Association Football.'"
All forms of football come from the first football game. In the same way American football and Aussie Rules did.
The WWE story is clearly made up but someone somewhere had to decide to do something different and they were kicking the ball before us so it implies we developed from that.
Either way, Rugby League was born the day they decided to split. Rugby was born when someone decided what the rules of rugby were a few years earlier. |
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| Quote: PopTart "All forms of football come from the first football game. In the same way American football and Aussie Rules did.
The WWE story is clearly made up but someone somewhere had to decide to do something different and they were kicking the ball before us so it implies we developed from that.
Either way, Rugby League was born the day they decided to split. Rugby was born when someone decided what the rules of rugby were a few years earlier.'"
I never knew wrestling had something to do with the beginnings of RL, you learn something new everyday on RLFans |
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The weekend of fixtures nearest to the 29th August could be a perfect time for a "heritage round" with proper RL jerseys, and everything.
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| Happy birthday to you
You’re a hundred and two (+15yrs)
You smell like a (northern) monkey
And you look like one too!!
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| Quote: PopTart "
The WWE story is clearly made up but someone somewhere had to decide to do something different and they were kicking the ball before us so it implies we developed from that.'"
I think the past is a lot more murky than that - there's a lot of evidence to suggest that "football" (before it was formalised in the Association Football rules) was so named because the game was played 'on foot', as opposed to on horseback. Don't fall in to the trap of thinking it's called football because you can only play at the ball with the foot, the very early Association Football rules allowed handling of the ball!
Quote: PopTart "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(association_football)rl"
If a player makes a fair catch, he shall be entitled to a free kick, providing he claims it by making a mark with his heel at once; and in order to take such kick he may go back as far as he pleases, and no player on the opposite side shall advance beyond his mark until he has kicked.'" |
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WW2 inter services union games at Odsal but also including the 1944 Challenge Cup final (Brad v Wigan).
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| Quote: Paul Thexton "I think the past is a lot more murky than that - there's a lot of evidence to suggest that "football" (before it was formalised in the Association Football rules) was so named because the game was played 'on foot', as opposed to on horseback. Don't fall in to the trap of thinking it's called football because you can only play at the ball with the foot, the very early Association Football rules allowed handling of the ball!
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Wow, thanks. I've been curious about that for ages. Nice to know!
What i'm also curious about, if anyone else could enlighten me; before the play-the-ball was introduced - was there really a scrum formed after each tackle? That must have been ghastly to watch.
Also when the play-the-ball was first introduced. I understand it wasn't the PtB we have today (with two markers). So, what did it constitute? |
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