Discussing an article written by Sir Clive Woodward about how he is unhappy that England RU ' fans ' spend too much time going to the bar during matches at Twickenham , BBC Breakfast presenter Charlie Stayt suggested the coaches should concentrate on making the game more ' compelling ' to keep them interested

Have you watched a game of rugby recently? It's far more interesting than super league

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King James

I prefer watching international RU than international RL by miles. And I barely even like union.

I try every year. Longest i've ever managed is about 15 minutes.

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Loiner81

The sports are Rugby Union , and Rugby League , not ' Rugby ' and Super League

As I put , Mr Stayt made a simple observation , I doubt he has an agenda

Yes I watched part of a match of Rugby Union last week , it was poor considering it was essentially a friendly match

You are entitled to your opinion

Too each their own , my point being somebody who I assume has no axe to grind ( Charlie Stayt ) either way made a simple observation , being that if you want people to be more worried about missing something exciting than getting a beer , make it more exciting

I'd find having to watch all Mrs Browns Boys dvd's, everything james corden has done on tv and at the cinema. More enjoyable than having to watch a game of rugger.

If you take away the facility to self-medicate at RU matches, they will be forced to watch what's in front of them.

I have tried loads of times to watch rugby union and each time I fall asleep the most boring game apart from Ludo I have ever watched

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH LUDO?!?
please dont make Virtual Terrace an anti-Ludo zone, it's already an anti-rugby league zone i got nowhere else to go.

People are shocked that I don't like union, and only like league, they assume if you
Ike rugby it must be both or just union. There even more shocked when I tell them I love NFL over soccer.

I'll watch the union if there's nothing else on. Especially if it's the southern hemisphere teams and would definitely rather watch union than wendyball.

I also love the Nfl, started when I was at university, being able to get work done in the numerous breaks was a real plus.

But nothing will ever beat league, for me we have the best consumer sport in the world, in that there is always something happening. It's a shame we don't market it like that. (Union and NFL also has this to an extent but you have to like/understand the physical and technical side of Rucks/O-line play)

Doesn't an American football game go on longer than a days cricket.

There are 2 world cups. The proper one which is called "the rugby world cup" that is played by nations that have domestic competitions. The other is called the rugby league World Cup that is basically a tri nations between a game that is played in the north of England and the East Coast of Australia

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King James

Great game today. More skill on show than the English rugby league team have shown for 10 years. I can't think of one English rugby league player who would get on that England team yet 11-15 would walk into England's rugby league team

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King James

And Super League is a club competition , nothing to do with International sport

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Steve ( without all the pretentious bollox of calling myself a King )

Loads of skill mostly shown by Isreal Falau

Was that knock on try ' Skill ' ? , nah , how about the try from the quarterback pass ?

Just wondereing, are you drunk? Only asking because you called me out on something to which I replied and you have replied with something that is irrelevant and makes no sense? Maybe chat again tomorrow when you are sober??

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King James

Nope, it's often a misconception that NFL games are long, but the last about 3 hours including stoppages halt time break etr. Regular football with injury time half time etr as about 2 hours.RL just under 2 hours generally.

Queen James, trying to put our game down by saying it is only played in two places means absolutely nothing about the quality of unionball over rugby league. All you are saying there is that unionball is a bigger game that is played in more places but that doesn't make the quality of the sport better. It just makes the people that run the sport better at marketing it.

There are loads of small sports that are really entertaining and really skilled but they aren't rubbish just cos no one has heard of them or they don't get much exposure. I am a competition scrambler but you cant name any famous scramblers or famous routes can you so is my sport rubbish?? No.

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Yorksguy

The sport is called Rugby Union , couldn't care less what their World Cup is called

And as I pointed out , there is no sport called Super League

It was you who then drifted the thread

But you're free to post whatever bollox you want , as everybody who reads it is free to make up their minds about you and your opinions

Well it looks like that half a dozen points for a win will spark a plethora of tries in the kick code for the six nations. Can't see it really, the rules are too set up for spoil and delay. Some teams have tried to play open rugby (also a magazine in the eighties dedicated to a certain sport) but appear to falter on the rule book. Somehow the bottom of the world teams manage this but once they come up against the dearth fest of the northern hemisphere Union teams they sometimes struggle.

And if it comes to it at an international game of union, there are genuine fans but rather too many corporates (a group League has failed to embrace at club and international level) who regardless of what is in front of them are too busy with the freebie rather than the sport. But they'll spout how wonderful it was. Might even have enjoyed it myself a few times, the hospitality not the spectacle.

The only genuinely enjoyable spectacle in the whole Union calendar is the Army vs Navy game, the rest at both international and club level are monotonous penalty festivals where the spectators are more interested in supping ale away from the game than actually watching the "action" on the pitch

It's not a difficult problem for the RFU to sort out, if they want to.

What was the attendance at Twickenham on Saturday? 80000 plus?

What was the attendance when England played Australia at rugby league in London recently? 35000?

Maybe Charlie Stayt would respond to those statistics by asking whether rugby league needs to be made more compelling, so that it can attract the same crowds as rugby union.