general tickets went on sale maybe 2 months ago...at the time the bulldogs were in freefall and their fans obviously didn't buy the general tickets...souths were on fire so their fans bought them ..south Sydney has a lot bigger membership than any other team

This thread relates to Sam Burgess (as you stated in the title), not the more commonly known rugby league player Samuel Burgess.

His profile would be big, but only in Australia. As soon as he puts on an England RU shirt and features in an RU World Cup his profile will go up ten-fold, whether we like it or not. RL cannot compete on the international stage and I'm not sure we ever will...

Let's not forget, international RL isn't taken seriously by the Aussies, never mind the rest of the world!

If he is a success then of course his profile will become bigger than anything he could achieve in RL.just look at Robinson,Folau and Williams for an example.

Gregory Inglis would be a sensation.

surely to fit in in union he will need a double barreled name. something like samuel sam burgess?

That is an utterly ridiculous suggestion.

In order to fit into rugby union, Samuel Burgess's name is more likely to be enhanced if hyphenated to Samuel Ponsonby-Burgess.

There are no double barrell names in the current England Elite squad, that said only about 15% (of just over 40 players) come from Comprehensive state schools, most are educated at boarding/independant/grammar schools...make of that what you will.

Union has always been an upper class sport. It's one of the reasons twickenham is always full.........aspirant middle class wanting to feel posh