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Quote: The Avenger "Lol

Wigan did it in the late 90s and after a number of years being overtly professional the Rah Rah types genuinely thought they'd surpassed the skills levels of Rugby League and got brave enough to invite Bradford.

Bradford, having been roundly stuffed by Sts on a Friday night SKY game, then travelled straight down to Twikkers, breaking down on the M1 and spending the night on the hard shoulder. Despite a tough SL game the night before and have no sleep, Bradford proceeded to stuff all and sundry from the Kick n Clap brigade winning the title in more emphatic style than Wigan had.

The wobbly chinned softies haven't felt brave enough since to invite a Super League to their sub standard Rugby tournament.

Jog on Lebron!

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Avenger'"

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Quote: Him "Yep. We have to build. Use 9's as an international development tool. It's never going to get any traction as a domestic club competition but it can be used as Union has used 7's. Aim to get it into the Commonwealth Games and then build again from there.'"


Trying to force 9s doesn't seem right for me - it's like we've seen the success of 7s and just picked another random number.

What I'd prefer to see is using the 7s, where you'll note a lot of the players aren't full-time RU players, to showcase the benefits of RL. I think we could get more of our players playing in the 7s, representing GB, and then shouting loud about how it is their NRL/SL experience which is what's led them to smash the 7s.

The skill-set of 7s is very similar to RL and if you look at why the Fijians are so much better than GB its because they look like a line-up from an NRL game. GB looks like the back-line of an RU team, which is small and wirey and not designed to do more than one role (ie both attack and defend).

Use what's already there instead of trying to replicate/compete against the much better funded, managed, and marketed RU. Surely it doesn't make sense to try go directly up against that given the limited funding and current support for RL??? That would be like trying to set up an RL team in a RU-only area like Twickenham.

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I know what you mean but then any success is just given to Union instead of retained by League. We need to develop along League lines with a League focus rather than just hoping some of League players playing 7's will talk about how good League is.

We need League infrastructures setting up and the quickest and easiest way to do that is in our own mini-version of the game.

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Quote: bfd-dagger "Trying to force 9s doesn't seem right for me - it's like we've seen the success of 7s and just picked another random number.

What I'd prefer to see is using the 7s, where you'll note a lot of the players aren't full-time RU players, to showcase the benefits of RL. I think we could get more of our players playing in the 7s, representing GB, and then shouting loud about how it is their NRL/SL experience which is what's led them to smash the 7s.

The skill-set of 7s is very similar to RL and if you look at why the Fijians are so much better than GB its because they look like a line-up from an NRL game. GB looks like the back-line of an RU team, which is small and wirey and not designed to do more than one role (ie both attack and defend).

Use what's already there instead of trying to replicate/compete against the much better funded, managed, and marketed RU. Surely it doesn't make sense to try go directly up against that given the limited funding and current support for RL??? That would be like trying to set up an RL team in a RU-only area like Twickenham.'"


Dude you are dreaming. Rugby league players going into union 7's will be treated as union 7 players.

League won't benefit at all from it. heard the same when hayne went NFL and when Burgess went to union. Need to stop this myth that when league players go to another code somehow it will benefit rugby league.

Just for the record, in NZ during pre season they have the Wellington sevens and the Auckland nines. Guess which one is more popular these days.

Rugby league needs to do something with the nines sport. Union has sevens locked down. We have to be different

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Forgive my ignorance, but is there any reason why a RL side cannot enter a team in one of the 7s tournaments?

I watched bits of a 7s on TV recently and it was mostly AP teams in the finals. I know it was out of their season, but they seemed to mostly field their academy players anyway.

Is their anything to stop Wigan/Leeds or anyone else entering what would clearly be a RL based team?

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Just a thought about either getting league players in to Olympic 7's or league 9's into the commonwealth games. Both competitions take place in the summer and therefore any player participating would presumably miss what could be vital games for their club. I'd also assume they'd not be able to just drop in for the couple of weeks of the event. I'd read that the players in the olympics had "only" been together since May. So taking a random example like Sam Tomkins....How would fans of the Wigan club (or choose a "star" player from your own club) feel about losing a player, for three months of the season...and then imagine you have two players selected.
Any thoughts?

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