Great idea.The only rules you would need to change is only 3 men in a ruck or maul.Dont have line outs,its just a tap restart. Keep the scrums make them contested.Its 13 a side and off you go.

Hey don't worry about me. This is all comedy gold; this close-season's Bodyform Ultras mickey-take'athon. You shouldn't take yourselves so serious.

Is Gareth Thomas going to make a guest appearance for Wigan in the game? You won't have to pay him, apparently he's contracted to the RFL and they're paying him for the next 12 months



Anyway have you worked out which weekend in January this game is going to be yet? Saracens appear to have a full month of fixtures.

I'm just amazed that the new glamour club Warrington are not involved. Could this be why you have so much interest Stinky?

Ballcocks. Show the Pimms brigade what real fans are by not going. Fwck RU.

You back again? Must be a slow news day in Warrington. Guess your boys were on the in another town again ... oh, hang on ...



Trust me, you have a lot more to worry about than when Wigan play their next hybrid money-spinner.

I have said it before but the hybrid rules are so biased in favour of Rugby Union that any Rugby League side should refuse to play under them. Any Rugby Union team should beat any Rugby League team quite easily under those rules.

After that Barbarians game today I'm not quite sure why we're talking to Rugby Union about anything. There is certainly nothing they can teach us about playing rugby, and in terms of offering rugby as entertainment, our Under 9s could give them a university education.

I agree and thats why we should not play under those hybrid rules, they were dreamt up by largely Rugby Union people and it shows. A Union team should win every time and I would hate to give them some sort of supremacy by beating us, or any RL team, in rules that are much more suited to them.

I dont even really see why any League or Union team should pander to these cowboys/promoters, who are only interested in the money anyway. If it has to be done, and I really dont see why, then come up with better, fairer rules and by completely bypass external promoters who will only take a cut of the profits.

By playing RU rules in the attacking half it means that a League team has to score the Union way i.e rucks and mauls or score from their own half. How is this fair? In addition with the Union team gauranteed 6 tackles in their own half they can still work their way down the field and if they pass half way then can just keep the ball and score with their own rules. They are a joke.

are the hybrid rules listed anywhere?

It tells you them here:

[urlhttp://www.foxsports.com.au/league/kangaroos-could-play-wallabies-in-blockbuster-post-season-hybrid-match-worth-15-million/story-e6frf3ou-1226205948946[/url

Did you see the game today when they tried to pass the ball along the line

Honest to god ive seen kids 9/10 year old who pass the ball faster, better and more skilfully than shown in that game today, it was shocking!

Has it been announced yet when this will be played?

Not yet, I just hope it does not have an impact on our season.

Unless we go out of the cup I can't see a sensible weekend.

I heard a suggestion the midweek before the Quins away game. Whenever that is?

I care, not a jot. I won't be there to support the concept whilst I still know no more about how this partnership will benefit WRL

I really hope this game doesn't go ahead. This game will not benefit Wigan in any way.

Any week would be fine if we put out the under 18s, which in my opinion, we should do.

I don't know about playing the under 18s.
This is so unpopular that if it is played they'll probably get under 18 watching it.

I must be one of the very few looking forward to this! It should be a great event and is an oppurtunity to show the nation how much more skilled and fast flowing our code is.

With regards to injuries, it is much more likely that a player would get injured in a friendly game in our code than a friendly in their code. Bet our lads wont even break a sweat.

I'm glad I'm not the only one looking forward to it. The Bath games were great.

Anyone who thinks they won't care about the game now will change their mind when it kicks off. Wigan will be playing and any Wigan fan will want us to win.

I'm all for it and hope it opens the door to blue collar sponsor contacts.
Let's be honest, we should murder them at League but i hope its a hell of a close game in Union.

The problem is that it is a cross-code game with cross-code rules. The Bath experiment proved nothing, only that Wigan were the better league side and Bath were the better Union side.

The rules will be mixed between League and Union, but they slightly favour Union sides due to line-outs etc.

The fairest way IMO would be to play one half of league and one half of union, but use the same points scoring system for both halfs, maybe 5 for a try, 2 for a goal and 1 for a drop goal. That way it isn't easier for the Union side to rack up more points due to their stupid points system. The winner of the toss before the game could decide which half is played in which code. Play the whole game with 14 players on each team (middle ground).

If we play well in the league half we would murder any union team. Play like league players in the Union half and we could still rack up some points. Just look what we did to Bath at twickers in 96.

Whether people like it or not, the media will use this game to judge which code is better. If Sarries won then the media would hail Union as the better code, we can't let that happen IMO.

I've always said it was Wigan failure to play like League players that cost us the match at Twickers. Can you image the RFU, if we had won.

RU has evolved since then, they would steam roller us. You only have to do a quick size comparison of sam to the rest of the players in the barbarians game.

We'd be smashed at union at over 70 plus points and same vice versa. This penalty try fella will carve us up.

I don't think anyone had said they won't be supporting Wigan. I certainly haven't.
I will support Wigan from the distance of about 250 miles and through a feed of Bilkos tweets most probably.
I won't be at the game. I won't support the game.
I will support Wigan.