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[Guest]

i play both games mate. i am a forward in both as well.
i am a flanker in union and a dummy half in league, and i cant remmeber getting subbed off in my six years of playing. (im 17)

Now that I know that, it makes things alot clearer

[The Rooster Oracle]

I'm already having dreams about him hitting Guerra with inside balls..And Moga flying down the left wing,repeatedly,from outside balls..

And Maloney running Terry Lamb lines down the centre of the field in support..

I have also been having dreams about what SBW can do for us, really really wet one's!

I mean that in a brotherly love kinda way of course.......not that there's anything wrong with that!

I can see where Chook is coming from with wanting SBW in the backrow. If SBW played for us this year at centre under Smiffy and with Bwaiff as 5/8th, the only ball that he would be seeing is running out of dummy half from our own end, being completely wasted!

There will not be that same concern with Smiffy and Bwaiff gorrrrrrrrrrrrne and Maloney at 5/8th feeding him quality ball out wide. Personally I would like to see SBW start off at centre and see how it goes, later in the season if need be move him into the backrow.

[Thirteen]

You like to ass-u-me many things and Context can be a wonderful thing.

Weren't you recently chucking a tanty about how others don't cheer when and/or how you believe they should during games???

People are strange.

Yes mate that was me and I still have a problem with supporters who go to games and sit there with their hands in their pockets and their mouths shut. I reckon they should go and watch the tennis! I reckon the best way to support our team is with your voice. If you disagree or think that this is strange or that I am strange, that's ok with me.....I can live with that.

[Cockadoodledoo]

in league, teams often go in with four props. two start, stay on for twenty minutes, get replaced, and come back on with twenty minutes to go. that means four props each play roughly 40 minutes each.
in union, teams often go in with three props. two starts, one plays the whole game and the other comes off with around 15 minutes to go. that means one prop plays 80, one plays 65 and the other plays 15

Tim Horan on the 2UE Sports Today program last week mentioned the entire Wallabies forward pack made a combined 80 metres running metres in the 2 Bledisloe Cup matches this season.. That would be considered below par for a starting NRL forward in one match. The pace of a Union game is much slower than League and that is why a forward can play more minutes. There are a lot more stoppages in union and as defensive lines are much closer together, not the same amount of aerobic fitness required to constantly get onside.

[Guest]

Michael Oldfield had better be on one wing next year, or I would have words with Mr. Robinson.

[Chook Norris]

Tim Horan on the 2UE Sports Today program last week mentioned the entire Wallabies forward pack made a combined 80 metres running metres in the 2 Bledisloe Cup matches this season.. That would be considered below par for a starting NRL forward in one match. The pace of a Union game is much slower than League and that is why a forward can play more minutes. There are a lot more stoppages in union and as defensive lines are much closer together, not the same amount of aerobic fitness required to constantly get onside.

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[stsae]

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Yep what they^^ said.

I've always wanted to use that key.

[chook 56]

Yep what they^^ said.

I've always wanted to use that key.

Is that the one covered in dribble?

[stsae]

Yes mate that was me and I still have a problem with supporters who go to games and sit there with their hands in their pockets and their mouths shut. I reckon they should go and watch the tennis! I reckon the best way to support our team is with your voice. If you disagree or think that this is strange or that I am strange, that's ok with me.....I can live with that.

No stranger than anyone else mate. I was using The Doors line.

I'm a noise maker. I make noise. Sometimes I annoy. And I don't care either. I make noise anyway.

I hate sitting at games. That's the problem IMO, chairs.

I'd ban chairs, back to big fark off cement steps, standing room only.

Rant over.

[stsae]

Is that the one covered in dribble?

No that's my bib maaaaaaaaaate.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ that's the key to the city, baby.

[Bansai Pipeline]

There was a great interview with Craig Gower where he reckoned he'd made more tackles in one half of NRL than one whole season playing rugby for Italy. He thought the shift added ten years to his playing career.

If you asked Rugby players which sport was more gruelling, I don't think they'd have any qualms admitting it was League.

[SConcierge]

There was a great interview with Craig Gower where he reckoned he'd made more tackles in one half of NRL than one whole season playing rugby for Italy. He thought the shift added ten years to his playing career.

If you asked Rugby players which sport was more gruelling, I don't think they'd have any qualms admitting it was League.

Totally mate, I played both years ago well many years ago no comparison..anyhow I was reading the paper a couple yrs ago and they had like man of steele forward of the week for rugby and it was Phil Waugh so I checked out his stats for that week and I fell on the ground laughing, he made like 20m 5 tackles and 5 hit ups.

[stephenj]

its agreed by all that the defencive side of league is fare tougher than union, the big question remaining is can quade cooper step up to the intensity in defence needed in league, i guess a very full on off season with fitzy and a few of the boys running at him will tell us?

[tri-hard]

The winger we had who got injured, cant recall his name{? pengii ? may have been aboriginal ?) . Looked very promising.

And tom Symonds is better than most of the backrowers named.

[melon....]

If true the dumbest purchase since Brett Finchley