Agree completely

I, for once, really enjoyed Stevo being TV during this interview. I think its about time folk got on TV and started lambasting Union for pinching our ideas and generally being very boring to watch.

The RFL trying to spread the game into new regions at grassroots level is great news and long should they continue, but what really annoys me is this apologist attitude that comes along with it. Its like we should all have to feel embarrassed and apologetic about being a northern based sport and for falling behind the might of the Union PR machine. I'm all for expansion (if done in the correct manner), its for the greater good of the game, but that doesn't mean forget who we are. And, it doesn't mean we can't stand up in public and say "Do you know what Jonny Twickers? You're bloody boring!" That would command more of the publics respect than "The percentage of participation rates at grassroots level across the home counties continues to excel at increasing rates blah blah corporate balls" Basically you got a hand full of kids from different ethnicities in Brixton to play 9's once for ten minutes in some school or other and took a photo and very quietly and politely asked a broadsheet to say we're a success, while they ignore us and continue with boring column inch after boring column inch about that boring game that is meant to be like chess in comparison to our one dimensional game. apparently.

Rant over. To conclude. Well done Stevo. What Laurie Daly said.

I like them both. Brought up on Union, the game we played as kids. A bit different in Wales than Scotland or England i'll grant.
Due to the ridiculous media (non)coverage, and downright apartheid by the hierarchy of the country, (as brilliantly pointed out in David Hinchcliffe's book),
we never really saw, or understood much about, league. Hence the distaste every time League 'stole' our stars.
It was only since moving up North that I got a proper taste of what league is, and why RL followers dismiss union so quickly.
For me, it retains the football element from where the game of rugby evolved, and as such should only be compared in the same way as, say, the 3 forms of cricket.
As a spectator sport, League is more than likely preferable to the newbie. Also, League, altho' terribly run, is the more innovative, and union does pick up and run with leagues successes.

I didn't see/hear the debate.

Here's where to find it www.skysports.com/video/inline/0 ... 95,00.html

Here's where to find it www.skysports.com/video/inline/0 ... 95,00.html

At club level RL all the way
But at international level the RU win hands down RL will always have just the 3 nations the rest France PNG etc will never be at the required level