You lot are weird.

I know sorry, i've put him and his umpteen aliases on the block list.
I won't be rising to it again.

He really does need help.

What a wuss, likes to give it out but as soon as someone gives a bit back the bottom lip starts to quiver. Bye

If people have a problem with other posters can you contact Admin and leave it out of a specific thread?

Back on topic please...

I though Burgess had a very good England RU debut and should remain in the squad as he offers something different from the other centres and his leadership abilities are already apparent. Slade should also stay with Burrell & Twelvetrees dropping out

Only took you 73 pages, well done.

But this thread, like most that that clown posts on using his multitude of aliases, hasn't been on topic since page 1.
Do mods really need posters to contact them to point this out? Isnt it kind of why you're a mod?

See you when my ban ends anyway

Burgess put in a couple of good hits but was average elsewhere and for me shouldn't be in the RWC squad. It's all about opinions though. Agree about Slade though, he's an intelligent player and a star in the making. Just wish he was Welsh!

Congratulations to big Sam on his selection to the final 31 WC squad. Quite an achievement in such a short time. I hope he gets the chance to impress on the big stage and wave the flag for League.

Person doing a job.

This seems to be normal.

Why is this seen as a problem for some?

What a waste of "rugby" talent.

No he is waving the flag for rugby union. Never understood why league fans think that league players playing union is somehow good for our sport.

When he first signed for bath I heard Brian noble and others say how if he plays at Twickenham in s world cup it would be great for rugby league.

Where do people get these crazy ideas from? It's more inferior complex and basically saying that a rugby league player is not big until he puts on an England rugby union Jersey.

Can't imagine the media and fans in Sydney are saying that Sam burgess playing union for England is great for rugby league.

Agreed.

The reason is simple if you take off your Stevie Wonder's. Rugby Union outside of Sydney is a massively more popular sport with a huge worldwide TV audience.

Therefore just as Jason Robinson's success over a decade ago was good for Rugby League. Sam Burgess has had more mentions and national sports headlines in the last week than the SL has done all year. In each case his former League CV is rolled out for all to read therefore if he achieves some success in his short and limited Union career this will reflect well on his RL upbringing.

RL has such a low media profile that the BBC, on the day they relied on our Challenge Cup final to fill their Saturday BBC1 afternoon programne could not find any time to promote it on all their Breakfast time every 20 minute sports slots. Most national newspapers do not even cover SL.

Which doesn't alter the fact that the clear sub-text as presented to the media re Burgess (and as it was with Robinson in his time) is

"good league player, yes, but can he hack it at the 'proper' version of the sport?". This patronising view is not good for RL.