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<blockquote data-quote="Saintjay" data-source="post: 469711" data-attributes="member: 55969"><p>I find league a great training or warm up game.</p><p></p><p>I spend a lot of time in Hull visiting friends who are either big F.C or K.R fans. To a man they hate union and what they see it standinding for.</p><p>They see Union as a sport for the upper class and one played by university students, doctors, army officers etc, etc.</p><p></p><p>The fact that the great welsh teams were from poor mining communities, that a number of the amauteur clubs in counties such as Leicester and Northants are populated by the hard grafting farming communities. This all seems to escape some Leaugue fans and the fact that part of the reason the codes split was the fact that Northern Leaugue clubs wanted to make money and pay players.</p><p></p><p>The belief is that league is the game for the working man, where hard working Northern men play proper rugby. A certain amount of jealousy is displayed since Union seems to grow and grow every year, and the great days of League seem to have gone. The days when everyone knew the big league stars such as Martin Offiah, Ellery Hanley,Shaun Edwards. </p><p></p><p>The hatred as I see it and as others have said, is more directed from Leaugue towards union. Where as most union fans dislike league because of the lack of finer points such as rucking, line outs, scrums to name a few. </p><p></p><p>Union as a game takes little away from Leauge, the two main things that I can think of is the difference in defence. When Union started looking at defending the gain line very similar to Leauge and the impact League defencsive coaches have had on Union. An example being Shaun Edwards. The other one I can think of is player size, mobility in running attacking lines etc.</p><p></p><p>Proberly the best known convert from Union to League in the U.K Jonathan Davis allegedly said that it only took him about six games to learn all there is to know about League.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Saintjay, post: 469711, member: 55969"] I find league a great training or warm up game. I spend a lot of time in Hull visiting friends who are either big F.C or K.R fans. To a man they hate union and what they see it standinding for. They see Union as a sport for the upper class and one played by university students, doctors, army officers etc, etc. The fact that the great welsh teams were from poor mining communities, that a number of the amauteur clubs in counties such as Leicester and Northants are populated by the hard grafting farming communities. This all seems to escape some Leaugue fans and the fact that part of the reason the codes split was the fact that Northern Leaugue clubs wanted to make money and pay players. The belief is that league is the game for the working man, where hard working Northern men play proper rugby. A certain amount of jealousy is displayed since Union seems to grow and grow every year, and the great days of League seem to have gone. The days when everyone knew the big league stars such as Martin Offiah, Ellery Hanley,Shaun Edwards. The hatred as I see it and as others have said, is more directed from Leaugue towards union. Where as most union fans dislike league because of the lack of finer points such as rucking, line outs, scrums to name a few. Union as a game takes little away from Leauge, the two main things that I can think of is the difference in defence. When Union started looking at defending the gain line very similar to Leauge and the impact League defencsive coaches have had on Union. An example being Shaun Edwards. The other one I can think of is player size, mobility in running attacking lines etc. Proberly the best known convert from Union to League in the U.K Jonathan Davis allegedly said that it only took him about six games to learn all there is to know about League. [/QUOTE]
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