Quote ="Dunbar"The sport of Rugby Union has been openly and fully professional for the last 16 years. This period has also seen significant growth of the sport of Rugby League where it is now played the length and breadth of the country across amateur, school and university clubs... If League was going to be “on its knees in England”, it would have happened in this period
Now, potential rugby players across the country have the choice of which code to play and it is ‘may the best game win’... I firmly that game is Rugby League'"
Aye those are pretty much the positives I elluded to and to add to that a lot of countries are starting to take the game up. I mean we just had Canada vs South Africa, Serbia vs Ukraine, Denmark vs Norway. Why would the people who are working tirelessely at grassroots level around the world suddenly want to merge with union. They obviously wouldn't as league is the game they've chosen to play!
Besides the premise of taking on football as a reason for merging is a pretty awful one. We don't need and can't possibly be the biggest sport in the world, we jsut need enough grassroots and commercial growth to sustain our game and keep it as entertaining as it is and continue to produce some of the most exciting and althletic players in world sport that sadly don't get enough recognition.
