lol

Unclejoesmintball.

Get a sponsorship. With Werthers. That'll blow their minds!

sexyball

Impact League Football.

Superawesomefuntimeprolatespheroid

Professional Rugby

Where does that leave BARLA and rugby for juniors ? There are only two countries where the phrase could justifiably be applied.

You got me there. How about then...

Anti-Fascist Rugby.

Scootball (English version).

Huddersfield Rules.

I've got it.

How about XXXX Rugby, where XXXX stands for whichever corporate sponsor is happy to pay us £10m per year? We would obviously have to monitor the ethics of such companies.

I genuinely can't remember a single post of yours I've replied to, so I'm certainly not being personal. I just must not agree with the content of your posts. If they're of the quality of the one I last quoted, then no wonder.

Which part of my previous reply would you consider to be "hostile"?!
And what other replies have I given to you would you consider "hostile" also (since apparently they're regular!)?

I wouldn't say my last reply to you counted for "very little" either, considering I don't reckon you could find one person that would agree that "Super League" is one step away from "über mega rugby".

So what really is the problem then?

Has Awesome League been suggested yet?

You do realise that the "League" part of "Super League" is in reference to the competition being a league, and not to the code of the sport don't you? (ie Premier League in football).

And you do also realise there is a competition in the other code called "Super Rugby", so even if it was referring to the sport, it doesn't seem to bother them. That would also be a lot closer to "über mega rugby" than "Super League" as well.

The sport was founded as Northern Rugby (Football Union). It was changed for a reason. "Rugby" should really have been dropped from the second we decided we weren't just another governing body of the same sport. "Northern Football" or "Northern Rules Football" would have been better, and would have drawn less parallels with union in the long run. Would have needed changing in the future though to stop the stereotype and allow us to be seen as less of a regional sport and more of a world game.

"Global Rules Football" or shortened to "Globall". That's some marketing right there for night games!

Considering many people refer to the RFL as "The Rugby League" in an informal manner, and considering you're claiming that "Super League" is non-specific (non specific to what might I ask?), I don't see how you can see the latter as confusing but the former not.

Couldn't agree more JB.

We have as much right to the name rugby as the unionists,it really gets on my nerves when the media refers the RUWC as the rugby world cup when there are no RL teams playing in it.

Does it bother you when they talk about the football World Cup as well? Or football in general?

When I mention the word rugby to me it means RL.

I would imagine it would to say the majority of posters on here,why should we change our name when it means as much to us as the union lot.

Them union fans on Planet Rugby forum(especially Aussie ones)are going mad at RL for using the name rugby,just for that reason alone we should keep it.

Not bothered about football mate.

The only sport I love is rugby.

The Quick Rugby

Ifyouwatchthisyouwillgetlaidball.

You do realise that rugby league is a code of football, don't you?
That we have just as much right to the name "football" as we do "rugby"?
And that the term "football" was around well before "rugby", therefore we should really be more annoyed about losing that from our name than "rugby"?

Wellsy what do you call the sport you follow.

Is it rugby or is it football,I get what you are saying but let's be honest who calls rugby,rugby football,I know I don't.

It's the same when you go watching Hull,what do you say,I know when I am going watching Saints I say I am going to the rugby.

Stevo does!

Lol fair enough but I mean in general.

What about you Thoth what do you say.

Listen to any Aussie or Kiwi in any interview they never mention rugby, it's always footie