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Rugby League : Blue collar for sure !

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Source: League experiment flops for ARU

Ever wonder why Rugby League has been associated with the blue collar of society and rugby an upper class sport. You don’t need to be too bright to understand that after you read this statement from ‘not to smart Rogers’.

It was a bitter Rogers, 33, who decried rugby for being too bogged down in technicalities, compared to rugby league where he now plays with Gold Coast Titans.

“I’m not surprised people struggle to follow it because I played it for five years and I still struggle to understand the rules,” Rogers said.

“The whole technical aspect of rugby is just too much. There’s the lineouts, the scrummaging and the breakdown laws you have to worry about. It’s just information overload. Rugby is not for me.”

COMMENT:  As I have said before Rugby is like CHESS and LEAGUE is like checkers, some folks just cant play both. Lucky for Rogers he uses his athletic ability to make a buck and not his brains.

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  • tim  Big T
    November 22nd, 2009 at 2:20 am    

    Technicalities means penalties and a bloody boring game to watch.

    Lets compare the 1st four AB matches to the recent Four nations league test series and here are the staggerng differences. Then wonder why Rogers made the change.

    Total Tries in 4 AB’s games – 7
    Conversions – 3
    Penalties – 28

    Four Nations league, 1st 4 games
    Total tries – 36
    Conversions – 29
    Stats dont lie – no wonder so many young boys are converting to NRL. The rules of Union suit the Northern Hemisphere teams and the IRB chess players. We and the NZRFU are owned by these white collar crims and the NZRFU don’t have either the balls or brains to stand up for a running rugby game and better spectator sport. If you think watching the huge amount of penalties being scored and bugger all tries, then perhaps we don’t need the other 14 players on the field. Lets just have an 80 minute penalty shoot out. Time to pull fingers from holes and change the bollocks rules and get the defensive lines behind the mauls standing 10 mtrs back from the base. Hmm, aint that a league rule???