Maybe you should stop obsessing about Union and you should definitely hold back on the straight comparisons......

660 players in 20 squads at RUWC 2015 of which I can find 71 playing for countries other than that of their Birth. 11%........that's a lot.

322 players in 14 squads at RLWC 2013 of which I could find 159 playing for countries other than that of their birth. That's 49%....that's a Joke...even more so when you consider those 159 were split between 9 sides at over 17 per 23 man squad as an average!

The biggest joke is that you spent your time noting the birthplace of nearly 1,000 players to try prove a point on a website.

Australia is a multi cultural immigration nation where RL is no.1. Is it any surprise that they produce so many heritage eligible players? If RU in Australia was popular I'm sure they'd also be supplying more English, Italian, Samoan, Tongan etc union players.

Great to see the png hunters going well. They're the first FT PNG squad of players. If players like segyaro don't jump ship to play for Australia we might see png getting more competitive. Likewise Fiji when they join the nsw cup.

lol......the thread gets started with stats and when I blow them out of the water with accurate stats its a joke?
By the way.... I didn't try to prove a point. I did prove it!

So are saying that all league fans should enjoy watching union and vice versa. Sorry but that's ridiculous.

You can't force someone to enjoy watching a sport they don't like. Like I said before, why do people have a problem with fans not being interested in the union world cup?

Another thread completely derailed by the clearly unwell Gutterfax and his multiple accounts.

Didn't take long at all for this thread about international RL to become a thread about the RUWC.

Is it any wonder that hardly anyone visits this forum anymore? The mods clearly don't spend any time here and I bet ad revenue's at an all time low.

Think i'll go check Twitter out for a bit before work. This place is dead.

The thread wasn't about international RL and don't let the door hit you on the arris on the way out

To find the OP mentioned Union and it just carried on. Fact is all sports have players born and raised in other countries. It's only trolls on RL boards that have a problem with RL's.

No. Its an insecure thread based around an inaccurate claim that international union is as contrived as international league.

I understand that it's a different game and that it has many shared skills - I'm also pretty adept at sitting back; it's the 'enjoying it' part I have a problem with. I just find the game, on the whole, crashingly dull.

I do wish however that RL would learn something from how RU promotes itself - clearly we have no access to the type of funding or media exposure that RU has, but the RFL and many clubs do a poor job of promoting the sport; and that's not all about money - it's about expertise and application.

I don't believe I said all league fans should enjoy watching league but it is folly to make out one is better or inferior to the other. Both League and Union can provide both boring and brilliant rugby at different times but to make out Union is not good entertainment flies in the face of it's popularity around the world as this World Cup clearly proves

Well each to his own. To enjoy Union does require some understanding of the different rules, tactics and different skills. Many Union fans think League is dull because there is no competition for possession. I prefer League but still fully enjoy Union but perhaps it was because I was brought up with both forms of rugby. So I, like perhaps billions of others around the world, will be enjoying the next six week of rugby on TV.