Quote: SLIMply the best "my god i have never seen so much inverted snobbery! i am probably more working class than all these people who have slagged me off on this forum! '"
Absolute genius.
I like Union - the biggest mistake RL people make is watching it expecting it to be RL. It isn't, particularly at the top level where it's about possession and territory. It's like watching NFL and being frustrated that it doesn't flow properly, or watching Test Match Cricket and wondering why it isn't done in a day. It's not what it's supposed to do.
It works both ways, I went on a beano to Sale Sharks last year and one of the coaches was putting us through a few drills - he slagged League off because it was too simple and it was about blokes running into each other. For him, the details, the rucks, the mauls, the line outs, is where the fascination lay with Union. Adrian Morley would be as hopeless a RU prop as Andrew Sheridan would be for us - yet they are both world class exponents of their sports.
Try to appreciate RU what it is is rather than what it isn't and it's very enjoyable, to me at least. That said, I'd obviously rather watch League, I'm not a complete imbecile.