If your bored - give it a watch! Plenty of ex League stars on display although it has Union players involved as well.

But you haven't told us what it is

Well it's Rugby League related obviously. It's a touch rugby event which legends of both codes took part in just before christmas. It's on for 2 hours.

Taking part were....

England-Neil Back,Jos Baxendale,John Bentley,Gary Connolly,Steve Hampson,Martin Offiah,Paul Sculthorpe,Tim Stimpson,Simon Middleton,Andy Kay

Wales-Iestyn Harris,Geraint Davies,Barry Eaton,Andy Gregory(guest welshman)Paul Highton,Jordan James,Chris Morley,Anthony Sullivan,Ian Watson

All Gold-Robbie Paul,Mark Andrews,David Faiumu,Carl Hall,Carlos Hassan,Jamahl Lolesi,Jarryn Osborne,Mike Umaga,Dean Drane.

Buccaneers-Mark Aston,Francis Cummings,Brad Hepi,Barrie McDermott,Terry O'Connor,Daryl Powell,Waisale Sovatabua,Graham Steadman,Lee Jackson

Good stuff, if im still awake in half an hour it may have to go on, is it repeated at all, like in the early hours?

Repeated at 11pm and tomorrow at 4am and 2pm on same channel.

Its the youth of today, 4am is a much better time than 7pm as its now past my bedtime

Im not this bored wow this is poop !!! Same atmosphere that you get at Knowsley road apart from no-ones shouting FORWARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD

Iestyn has bitch tits, Neil Back showing union up at the mo.

Neil Back: 'The other teams were more experienced than us'

I watched half an hour, then realised there was too much to live for. I also realised the solution to boredom isn't that and infact it is pie and drink

Well I enjoyed it anyway. Loved how it was pretty much a rugby league event dressed up as a dual-code one as well (for a change!).

Wouldn't mind seeing a Masters Rugby sort of thing in the same way they have in football like this. It'd make the off-season seem shorter anyway!

You have a high pain threshold.

This could be a great winter event for the RL Benevelent Fund???

Lancashire Masters;
Wigan, St Helens, Warrington, Widnes, Salford, Leigh

Pennine Masters;
Huddersfield, Oldham, Rochdale, Halifax, Bradford, Sheffield

Yorkshire Masters;
Castleford, Wakefield, Leeds, Hull, Hull KR, Featherstone

Cumbrian Masters;
Whitehaven, Workington, Barrow, BARLA Select Vets, Gateshead, Carlisle?

Top two winners to go to a big event at the MEN for instance?????

Sky to cover it.

Great way of raising money and getting a chance to cheer on some old favourites.

I think its a great idea and something our code lacks. RU has lots of vets events and some really high profile ones like the Bermuda Classic. Would love to see it happen

They need to alter the rules, the play the ball was just way too quick to make it meaningful. Maybe drop to knees after tagging, or even use some tag tape things to make it obvious people had actually been tagged.

It's touch rugby, not tag. They were using the proper touch rugby rules.

I think we should definitely attempt more events like this but agree that some of the rules should be changed whether they are official rules or not.

It was too hard to score and there seemed to be quite a lot of confusion. Tries were scored off quick play the balls often rather than skill. They should have made it 5 a side and maybe introduced those things that you have in Oztag where you rip it off a belt.

I thought the standard was shocking seeing as though some of them are still professionals. It was certainly an argument for old-timers being more skilful with the hands than nowadays! I think it would take a couple of events of getting used to and we would see a more exciting version of the game.

That's what I was getting at. Only has to be 2-3 weeks long, just to shorten the off-season a bit!

Although I'd go with some different groups as you've missed out a few teams there. Maybe...

Western Masters: St Helens, Warrington, Widnes, Barrow, Whitehaven, Workington
Manchester Masters: Wigan, Leigh, Salford, Swinton, Rochdale, Oldham
Eastern Masters: Hull FC, Hull KR, Sheffield, Doncaster, Gateshead, London
West Yorkshire Masters: Leeds, Hunslet, Featherstone, Wakefield, Castleford, York
Pennine Masters: Huddersfield, Batley, Dewsbury, Halifax, Bradford, Keighley
European Masters: Wales, Ireland, Scotland, France

All split into two groups of three like in Masters Football (apart from Euro group). Winners of each group play each other to be the winners of that competition. Winners of each competition go to national final, split into two groups of three again with a grand final.

Only problem with your idea Wells is that Western Masters would walk it quite easily.

Widnes and Saints legends with the ugliness of Wire players to put others off? Unbeatable.

So it was like watching Super League then?

Where've you been?
Welcome to 2005

Nah, I reckon they'd bottle it and the Barrow legends would go through personally!

OMG just seen this today. That is not Iestyn Harris!!

Then they need tighten the rules up and say that when you are touched by a defender not like what was happening last night with the attacker touching the defender.

You're allowed to do that in touch rugby. It's part of the game and has been for years. I think they call it a dump play. They do it to basically force the defenders to move back and force a quick PTB.

If you took another player out, (like people are suggesting) I don't see how this would make it less a running game? If the ball is in the middle, and you're going right, it can only go to two players so it's just as easy to mark.

I totally disagree with the point anyway that it's too hard to score. How long are these games?! And how many tries were scored in that time period?!

GAMES WHERE

GAMES WHERE 6MINS PER HALF 12 MINS IN TOTAL PER GAME AND I THINK THE MOST TRYS IN A GAME WAS 3 COULD BE WRONG