Yeah there's certainly some big humans playing Rugby Union but they're odd aren't they, some of them are like circus freaks.

Bean poles and fat blokes, Gorky looking stoopers with two flat feet and zero athletic ability.

Union demands - in the front five at least - very specialised body shapes.

Squat little balls of muscle in the front row who are expected to trundle from ruck to ruck and then work hard in the scrums and lineouts. Freaks of nature in the second row who look more like they should be on an NBA basketball court, specifically designed to generate power in the scrums but with athleticism and good hands for the lineouts.

The closest thing to rugby league players are probably the back-rowers and outside backs, hence the reason that's where most league converts end up.

Part of the reason why they are two very different sports.

You're being too kind!

So he can grow into it?

I went to a private school in Manchester, which unsurprisingly was run by RU enthusiasts, but it never filtered through- most of us were into football and to a lesser degree league. We left school absolutely despising Union- or even rugby as a concept, it wasn't until I was about 22 that I went to watch RL because I was bored one weekend and was hooked.

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