it will basically be that the side it is awarded to , effectively throw it to their own team. we need bear in mind its a charity game and some of the RL players wont have experienced being lifted 10ft into the air, with a 20stone, 7ft tall dude smashing you back down to earth

there were rules around the awarding of scrums, lineouts etc within the link, i just didnt post all of the rules

I remember Ray French once giving an interview in which he opined that, long-term, the only way for rugby to perpetuate itself as a major big money sport was for the top sides in RL and RU to join forces and combine their talent and resources in a single competition.

Whether that's being discussed at any level, maybe because of the parlous state of both RU and RL domestic games in the UK today, is uncertain of course, but it's probably unlikely.

The NRL doesn't need a hybrid version in order to survive. Likewise, international RU is doing fine without changing anything.

This sounds like nothing more than a charity one-off.

Rugby onion isn't really in that healthy a state. They've got the same issue with concussion claims that we have, plus they've had big name clubs fold in recent years.

It's bad enough that a Faily Mail journo wrote a piece suggesting a merger a month ago

rlhttps://archive.ph/DZW8Irl

Which is surely why many league fans are suspicious of 'hybrid games'. When union went pro, there was a flurry of pieces in the media saying the codes should merge. Always comes from the union side of course. Our sport is just fine as it is. Adapting rules to make it more like union would not improve it.

Get rid of Lineouts,get rid of 2 players ,bring it down to 13,keep the scrums and we could be getting somewhere.