The Virtual Terrace • Re: Sky Sports - Rugby Union vs League

What a lot of RL supporters do not realise is that Owen Farrell will not be the highest paid player in his team, that would be the starting props given the demands of the position. RU props do not become top class rugby league players so any match played under RU laws would have to be with uncontested scrums. Without contested scrums it would not be RU. Any RL v RU challenge would have three possible variants. 1) Tweaked RL 2) Tweaked RU or 3) Hybrid. Interestingly enough the third option could have been a real possibility if the decision making process in RL since it's creation had made different choices. Every so often someone comes up with a set of hybrid rules which usually will get mild interest in the press usually because of some moneyman eyeing up the international wealth of RU.