What a lot of RL supporters do not realise is that Owen Farrell will not be the highest paid player in his team, that would be the starting props given the demands of the position. RU props do not become top class rugby league players so any match played under RU laws would have to be with uncontested scrums. Without contested scrums it would not be RU. Any RL v RU challenge would have three possible variants. 1) Tweaked RL 2) Tweaked RU or 3) Hybrid. Interestingly enough the third option could have been a real possibility if the decision making process in RL since it's creation had made different choices. Every so often someone comes up with a set of hybrid rules which usually will get mild interest in the press usually because of some moneyman eyeing up the international wealth of RU.

They could, but also trying to divert play away from those aspects surely would be how you deny the opposition the ball/superiority. You don't play to the oppositions strengths do you? And if a union side were to play their normal side a significant part of their side would be gassed early if the league side plays to its strengths. So the union side may forgo the heavier 'no necks' and thus the 'danger' is not really as much as one might think.

In any case a basic understanding of the rules goes a long way, people still make the flawed assumption that union is a complex game with 'dark arts' in the forwards that no-one can decipher, this is simply untrue.

Changing how sport is played occurs all the time, look at how NZAB changed the breakdown/rucks, not committing players so having more defenders than the opposition had attackers, forcing the opponents to make errors. Tackling correctly in the first instance goes a long, long way, union forwards have, even at international level of going to ground with barely a finger on them, being able to 'jackal' that ball back is not beyond the realms of a RL player, the ability to know when you can/cannot compete to take the ball away isn't rocket science, using superior fitness across the team can mean you arrive at the breakdown more often than the opposition, a big prop getting a few metres isolating themselves happens all the time, what happens, the defenders get to them first, the prop holds on, penalty.

The more you use your defence to thwart in the way you know how means more ball for you. Another example, holding up players from going to ground and pushing attackers backwards is familiar on a RL pitch, this gives you the ball back but you try to avoid scrums and mauls.

It's far from as dangerous and as simplistic as you make out IMO.

You need to back that assumption up, and the reality is not what you're saying at all.

Not an assumption but an imperfect quote. Of course you might be right. I know nothing except what I hear and the statement about Owen Farrell being paid less than the (open side) prop was made by David Flatman on The Gallagher Premiership show so he might have been having a laugh. The importance of the front row cannot be underestimated in R U but at Saracens the Vunipolas were probably behind Farrell with Itoje signing a deal to earn more but all of those figures were uncertain because of the shenanigans.

To be fair. I reckon a premiership team would have a good chance of beating a SL team at rugby league

Lol. Nice one.

What did come across on the rerun was how much better the marketing was, a busy Maine Road, with both Bath, Wigan and neutral fans, fireworks and a good atmosphere before kickoff.

We struggle to sell any RL games to anyone but the hardcore these days.

No chance.

Could you expand on that, I'm sure a modified RU team might give a decent account of themselves, but to infer that a premiership team could take on and have a good chance of a beating a SL, on what basis are you making that.
Let us know how that might happen, you seem to make a lot of statements on this site with not much if any substance.

Its simple. People on here still think it’s the 80s when the grim reality rugby league has gone backwards in the uk. In fact, standard has fallen off a cliff whilst RU has far overtaken uk with regards skill levels.

There are millions of backs in the RU premiership that would walk into SL teams

Yeh like that waste of space at Warrington

It's not just about Skill level though is it it. A rugby Union side will struggle simply on defence.