Since when has rugby union been about scoring tries?

What an ass i am. I knew something wasn't right when i posted it.

Thanks

Come on Catalancs, put your money where your mouth is...

How can union declare itself a global game based on those comparative WC results?

Can someone explain to me what goes on inside the head of the modern day RU player......I am thing Wilkinson here.
5 minutes to go losing 12-10.....so a drop goal or kick-able penalty would probably win it....The French are happy to run down the clock in our half.....and our forwards are putting their lives on the line to win back the ball only for Wilkinson to kick it back to the French?????
I'm sorry but tired as the players will have been....our best chance was to try to keep the ball, recycle it and work it up field for a drop goal....and he kicks it away hoping for something to happen by accident.
What has this game become and what is the point of kicking the ball away with minutes to go?
No doubt someone will be able to explain....
Sack Johnson I say....and get an attack-minded coach.

Football, seven winners seven runners up.
How can it claim to be a global sport with those results?

Global in terms of the number of countries where it's played.

When England were winning by playing negative rugby, 'Jonny' was hailed as the finest player in the world, because he could the ball an awfully long way. It must be hard for him to not do it now, given that his entire career has been built on it.

Seven appears more than four to me...

You must be struggling with elementary maths.



Nearly double the number.

Next...

So again, I ask, what is the cut off between "global" and "minority"...???

Rugby league is played in 55 nations now.

Presumably the cut-off between global and minority falls some place after that...



As I have shown with this argument before, it is all definitional and people buying into these descriptions are also deluding themselves...

It's ok, England yawnion has yet another saviour.

The whole momentum of the game shifted with the changes to England's midfield.

With Flood, Flutey and Tindall at 10,12 and 13 they at least looked like they wanted to shift the ball and ask questions of the French defence.

When Tindall was withdrawn to be replaced by Matthew Tait (who has had a wholly ineffectual tournament) and then Flood shifted into the centres to accomodate Wilkinson the pattern of England's game changed back into the turgid, kick and chase rubbish that has served them so poorly in the previous four games.

The blame for that falls squarely on Johnson's shoulders, and the blame for appointing a novice coach and surrounding him with yes men like Ford, Smith and Wells falls squarely on Rob Andrew's shoulders.

Both should be shown the door, neither will be.

All that means is union has greater penetration in Spain/Catalonia.

It has nothing to do with it being "global" or otherwise.

Delusional [iand[/i incapable of fashioning a sentence...

Gee these unionites have some ammo.