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Quote: Chris Dalton "The trouble with anything with Northern in the title is it just plays to the stereotype. Northern game for northerners. Now I love the north, I'm not ashamed of it I think it's brilliant but we're trying to expand here and show people we are for everyone.

So Brawlball it is.'"

Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting we should call it that. I'm saying it should have been called that to begin with rather than "rugby".
Wasn't Australian Rules originally called Melbourne Rules? If we'd have started as Northern Rules, we might have adjusted as time went on (well we probably would have, we did start off as Northern RFU).

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Quote: Dally "When this came up a number of years ago, the best suggestion I saw was 'League Rules Football.'

Taking that a step further it would in practice become known as 'League Rules' and if LRF had as its stapline 'League Rules'! So you would always see "League Rules. League Rules'! How about that for positive branding?'"

I actually think "League Rules Football" makes more sense than Rugby League Football.
I just think if you take the word "rugby" away, we will stop being referred to in the media as "the other rugby" and start being talked about as something separate.

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Quote: Wellsy13 "Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting we should call it that. I'm saying it should have been called that to begin with rather than "rugby".
Wasn't Australian Rules originally called Melbourne Rules? If we'd have started as Northern Rules, we might have adjusted as time went on (well we probably would have, we did start off as Northern RFU).'"


I agree with that. We should have changed it from the off and a lot of current problems wouldn't exist.

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Quote: Chris Dalton "I agree with that. We should have changed it from the off and a lot of current problems wouldn't exist.

To Titanball.'"

Maybe we should be more mathematical.

Prolate-Spheroidball.

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How about 'jeu à treize' if we are all too happy about dropping the word 'Rugby'?

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Quote: Carry on rugby "How about 'jeu à treize' if we are all too happy about dropping the word 'Rugby'?'"


You're back to the problem of what you call Nines

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Players play in tight shorts. The ball is renamed the bigball. We replace the commentators with people affecting speech from 1970s bawdy carry on films. The referee is a lady whose top inexplicably keeps coming off.'"


Or "Carry on rugby". Do away with the ball altogether and you call it competitive kiss chase.

Having Northern in the title won't help break the image of RL being a sport for Notherners only.

I could see "League Rules Football" working, but it is dull.

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i know it's kind of taken but
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Will people stop suggesting things with 13 in it! It won't work for modified versions of the game that don't have 13 players so would be stupid. We've been over this!

The only two that I've seen that have any potential have been League Rules Football and Leagueball. The rest either still have rugby in it (defeats the point entirely), 13/XIII/treize/thirteen (unworkable in modified games) or are just random words.

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Who drew up the original rules of RL? Was it one man who was in charge it could then be
<insert name> rules football

but only if he has a cool sounding name.

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Quote: Wellsy13 "How is "uber mega rugby" one step away from "Super League"?

It's at least five steps away. You'd have to drop two words and introduce three more. Five steps. Five steps that will never happen as well.

All in all, a rather ridiculous comment to make.'"

in your opinion. Which counts for little given your regular and inexplicably hostile replies to my comments. But sure, go right ahead and overreact to a serious point made in a light hearted manner.

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Quote: Horatio Yed "Who drew up the original rules of RL? Was it one man who was in charge it could then be
<insert name> rules football

but only if he has a cool sounding name.'"


Given that "rugby" itself is merely the name of the school / town that the game was first played in an organised form, it would be nice to name it after the place where the RFL / NU was founded. Unfortunately Huddersfield just doesn't sound right.

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