Thank you !

[shouse]

Hi, I'm a beginner (Never played before) and i'm gonna do my first practice in January. I talked with a rugby player and he tell me that I better go with rugby at XII and then switch for rugby XV when I got more technics (whent I got better). Do you guys give me the same advise ?

Thank you !

 

[Teh Mite]

Nope. If you want to play Union, play Union. If you want to play league, play league.switching codes is like converting from ping-pong to tennis. Only the very best players can hack both - see the farcical performance from Sam Tompkins in the recent BaaBaas match and even some of the best players cant hack playing the other.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I think he means Rugby 7s, rather than League

If you play on playing rugby a lot then it's probably best to go right into XV man rugby and play some 7s on the side/in the summer/whenever it's going
The skills you learn in the XV man game will cross over the to 7 man game better than the other way round

 

[jeffb]

Nope. If you want to play Union, play Union. If you want to play league, play eleague.switching codes is like converting from ping-pong to tennis. Only the very best players can hack both - see the farcical performance from Sam Tompkins in the recent BaaBaas match and even some of the best players cant hack playing the other.

Not exactly farcical, he scored the only try for the barbars for
fooks sake.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Literally any winger on any team of either code could have scored that try though
He was just on the end of a string of passes

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

Not exactly farcical, he scored the only try for the barbars for
fooks sake.

I could have scored that. His overall performance just wasn't good enough. I think he will make a decent Union player if/when he switches but only decent. He'd better stay in league where he is top class.

 

[jeffb]

He only started Union the Tuesday before the match. I thought he played well.

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

Bet his bank account thought so too

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Barbarians don't pay their players, I don't think.

 

[Getofmeland]

Your right Olyy, the Baa Baa's don't get paid, it is treated as an honour to play for them...

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

Bet some money changed hands though, sponsors etc.

 

[Getofmeland]

Today, international rugby is a professional sport and the Barbarians have also turned professional, i.e. they generate revenue and pay high profile players to play for them (the costs incurred by the Barbarians in assembling a squad for each game or tour are paid out of the gate receipts from the match, or matches, played) but they remain true to the attractive style of Rugby envisaged by their founders.

http://www.rugbyfootballhistory.com/barbarians.html

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I may have got it wrong... Whoops apologies for that...​

 

[Teh Mite]

He only started Union the Tuesday before the match. I thought he played well.

You thought wrong!

Very Wrong!

 

[Dizzy]

Tomkins shouldn't have been there.

 

[jeffb]

Nor should that All Black no.13.

 

[Teh Mite]

What's that got to do with a cross code player not being any good?

 

[jeffb]

He was a WC winner and still played awful.

 

[Darwin]

He was a WC winner and still played awful.

Err.... Fruean has never been an All Black, nor has he won a World Cup

 

[jeffb]

My apologies then for mis info, but he was still crap lol

 

[Teh Mite]

My apologies then for mis info, but he was still crap lol

Again, I still don't see what that has to do with code converters either way normally beiing utter shite.