Don't forget that Association Football "hijacked" the term "football", or by necessity of its populiarty became the code of football above Aussie Rules Football, Gaelic Football, Rugby Football League, Rugby Football Union, etc...

By removing the term Rugby from the name of our sport, it might as well become the sport known only by [ivia negativa[/i.

"Northern Union" has a nice ring to it!!!

Yeah about 115 years ago.

Can they not do both?

85% clearly think this is a ridiculous idea

I'm one of the 85%

PLEASE tell me that post was tongue in cheek?


PLEASE???

Sort of because I wouldn't change the name at all if it were my choice.

No chance. You could only do something like that if the sport was really popular and people were calling it that anyway.

I'm a fan of both codes but I always make a point of calling it the rugby union world cup. Or if both the England union and league teams have played on the same day and someone asks me if I watched the England rugby game, I always ask whether they mean the union game or the league game.

Comments like that will have you burned at a stake near sutton scotney services by the people on here my friend

Unless you were off to watch the Challenge Cup

“I'm watching a league match.”
“Which league?”
“Well, it’s the cup actually”
“Oh, the League Cup... that’s the Carling Cup now isn’t it?”

It would be like a Two Ronnie’s sketch

But about 100% funnier

Luckily I couldn't care less as I have no time for union or league haters.

I actually can't understand how you can love one code of rugby and hate the other.

Its 't narrrthern way






The 15 man code is the work of satan himself. Players like Jonny Wilkinson will steal your children whilst Martin Johnson (Lucifer to anyone 'oooop north) will force you to wear a Leicester tigers jersey and have a XV branded on your scalp just to go to the shops for an eccles cake and a pint of warm flat tetleys bitter

If you find out about the history of the games and how [size=85RU[/size treated people who played the gameof RUGBY LEAGUE , wanted to play the game of RUGBY LEAGUE, play RUGBY LEAGUE on a field and find it covered with glass etc then perhaps you may understand why league folk have little time for [size=85union[/size.

Plus the most important reason!!!!

RUGBY LEAGUE is a far superior game to play and watch than [size=85union[/size

Renaming things up north really doesn’t go down well. From experience I’ve come across some old Leeds RLFC fans that shudder when I say Rhinos. Dropping Rugby from Rugby League would just stretch the health services up here too much.

At last Barry you are beginning to realise the dangers of the union.
I have always said that union was the work of Satan and the game of RL came about through an exorcism.

Try telling that to your fellow season ticket holders down at Northampton Saints

They're more reason to hate the people that run or associate with the game, rather than the game itself.


And they aren't reasons to hate the game either. RL is a far superior game to play and watch than all sports IMO, which is why I love it. But it doesn't stop me liking other sports.

The reason why I can't stand union is because it's boring, slow, ridiculously complicated for the sake of being complicated rather than any kind of entertainment reason, and nothing really happens.

Not strictly true, but hey ho.....

the difference for me is simple - League is entertaining at any level from schoolboy up to international because the rules & make up of the game allows it but in Union I only find the top level having any entertainment level.Get below the top level then the game is stop-start because the rules don't allow for sub-standard union leagues.
League flows at the same rate more or less at whichever level you watch it IMO.
Never had the chance to play League unfortunately being from rural norfolk but did play a bit of Union which was mega-boring...

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Just so long as I can watch it I don't give a flying one what it's called...some people have too much time on their hands



On second thoughts...call it The X-League.......look at how many muppets tune into the simon cowell bollox......it's the future