You get 5 for a try not 7 they could miss every conversion.

But here's a thought if you could muster up a team of ex cross code union players playing league against a union side. I think they'd beat the union side when playing union, they'd know how to get the ball and then with superior fitness and skill levels destroy them with it.

They could do the same and all it would do is reduce the deficits in each game.

Saints didnt touch the ball in the union half due to ruck, maul and technical penalties, boring as sin that half was.

people go on about union being fitter but so are we.

There is just no point to something like this. In the league half, the league team will dominate, scoring points for fun, and in the union half, the union team will dominate and score points for fun.

What would be better would be Red Bull Air Race V Rugby League.

Have a RL match with a league team against the pilots. Second half they all have to fly planes through the posts in a figure of 8 pattern.

It makes as much sense anyway.

I was at the Sale Saints classic.

First and thankfully last visit to Knowlsley Road.

Sean Long missed a last minute coversion to win the game in front of the posts.

Pity Saints can't mess up like that against Wire.

I think there was a notable improvement compared to the Wigan Bath game.

Wigan scored 3 great tries in the Union match. The only three times they touched the ball!

Saints scored no points in the Knowsley Road farce.

I'd love to watch a Wire Leicester game. Rather than a nice friendly, with plenty of points, they should concentrate on the physical side of League and batter them in attack and defence.

Actually it is a pity there wasn't a game last year. Mauls were basically outlawed last season, so Union teams would potentially have struggled to break down League defences.

Actually Sale were so god damn awful I'd expect a League win in both halves.

benedictblog.dailymail.co.uk/ interesting article saying how union can learn from league. Union has long since borrowed, adapted and ised defensive strategies from league – in fact most top-flight union clubs have former league players or coaches in charge of this particular discipline – but settling down to watch Saturday’s Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Saint Helens (I went to confession the following morning to cleanse my union soul), it was the attacking play that was scintillating. hits the nail on the head for me. ball in hand for longer, so you have more opportunity to attack. offload point is very relevant too

benedictblog.dailymail.co.uk/ interesting article saying how union can learn from league. Union has long since borrowed, adapted and ised defensive strategies from league – in fact most top-flight union clubs have former league players or coaches in charge of this particular discipline – but settling down to watch Saturday’s Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Saint Helens (I went to confession the following morning to cleanse my union soul), it was the attacking play that was scintillating. hits the nail on the head for me. ball in hand for longer, so you have more opportunity to attack. offload point is very relevant too

i think we should leave them alone and let them play their game and we can play ours

the Saints Sale game was a hybrid scoring system, cant remember exactly how it worked but it was the same in both halfs. Sale won the toss and we had Union first, they just kept it simple and played it effectively as one big ruck in the middle. Saints couldnt compete and it was just a mass of players rolling down the field followed by a penalty conceded by Saints. 41-0 at HT.

In the 2nd half, Saints got pretty knackered (it was pre-SL season, and mid-RU season) we got it back to 41-39, basically by chucking it round a lot, not really playing in our usual patterns. Long missed a conversion to tie it up in the last second.

Had they played RL first, I am fairly sure that Saints would have scored more than 39/41.

Completely pointless event - although the crowd was around 12/13k for a preseason friendly.