Quote: bringbackbuck "Can't understand the animosity of some league fans towards union; they are played in different places. Union all over the world and league just off the M62 and the Pacific Highway and South Auckland.
Both are good games with their own merits. I personally am delighted to see any English national side doing well internationally, lets face it, not much hope of the League team doing anything.'"
I think some of is it because I see players from local Rugby Union teams walking around in suites and ties thinking they are some sort of minor celebrities and then an hour later after drinking aftershave and sticking their out of the back window of a bus pouring pints on each other’s heads which seems obligatory before 11PM.
Some of it because of the attitude of ex public school sports journalists who not only bad mouth rugby league (“Rugby League will be dead in 5 years”) but would also prefer to give column space to a game between two teams in the Southern Hemisphere than a sell out somewhere a couple of hundred miles up the M1.
Maybe it’s because I have to see a Rugby Union player every other week on programs like a “Question of Sport” when we are lucky to a league player once a year.
Perhaps it’s from reading books such as the “Forbidden Game”
Maybe it’s because when I played League a lad who played Union wasn’t allowed to go back to the club despite years of service.
Chip on shoulder - YES
But most of all it’s because I find it so chuffing boring.
