According to this Union hack in Ireland, Rugby Union is boring because of Rugby League and "[uScoring tries, which was once the intrinsic appeal of union, has become as arduous a task as finding humour in Halifax[/u." It makes me laugh at the way Union Scribes are so scared of league that they need to take pot shots every day. Guess this Peter Bills will be allowed to continue to write lies and BS just like Stephen Jones, John Inverdale, Spiro Zavos and other Union Scribes have been doing for years.

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To be fair they've nothing to be scared about regarding League. They're in the box seat in as far as being a more national and established sport. What they can't do thought is bull up their game because it's dire. And they know it. One day the car park hamper brigade will wake up "Matrix" style and realize how crap the game is that they're paying to see. Peter Bills is just another bog-brained Murphy.

My comment was along the lines of instead of having a go at ex-league defence coaches what about looking at the credentials of attack coaches and how many flair players there are in union these days. Plus I felt it was a very one-sided piece as well.

It might something to do with the thousands of rules in RU, over 100 for the line out alone!

Stop, start, stop, start, stop, start, stop, start.

Booooorrrrrrrrriiiiiiiing!

It's very rare that anyone comments on the rugby articles of the Belfast Telegraph. There are 23 and counting on Mr Bills' article.

What's the bet he pukes up more rubbish about League from now on ?.........................

They're all cracking posts as well!

Not sure we have any room to laugh at the rugger boys.

77000 turned out at Twickers on Boxing Day for a club game that attracted 4000 6 years back.
RFL mis management won't get that many this year to the whole magic weekend

It's more laughing at the article. It does make me wonder what attracts all those people though. Winning the world cup and a more spread out club demographic I guess.

Had someone in Halifax said "it's hard as finding humour in Belfast", no doubt this hack would have called them racist. He's probably no idea where Halifax is, let alone been there. The prat is welcome to carry on living in the comedy capital of the world, Belfast with all its inherent wackiness and good-natured banter.

i know where id rather live. id feel safer outside barbarellas at 4am on a saturday night than i would anywhere in belfast

I thought that the most laughable part was that about RU being notable for scoring tries.
Yeah right. After kicking penalties and drop goals.