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What's the difference between Rugby League and Rugby Union?
Which one's better and why?
Where does Rugby 7s play in on this?
Why is this semen-slurping sport so convoluted?
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>>69529328

Union is for middle-class / well off people. League is for plebs.

Union is better unless you're a dole-scrounging coalminer. Or an Aussie.
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>>69529328
League and union are different sports

Sevens is rugby union but with 7 players instead 15 and shorter in length
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Rugby League split away because poorer people wanted to be payed to compensate for injuries which could make them miss work. Rugby League is only really popular in parts of Australia and Northern England, Rugby Union is popular everywhere else.

Rugby League is basically like a game of bulldog, all the set plays were removed to make the game more fast flowing and spectator friendly, but a lot of people feel it is just a dumbed down verison and the set pieces in Union is what makes the game great, also in League there is a 'downs' rule similar to American Football.

Rugby sevens is just rugby union but with 7 players, it's not really serious but it's a lot of fun and high scoring.

It's complicated so working class scum don't get into it.
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>>69529379
How do they differ in rules?
If they're different sports why are they both called rugby?
>>69529376
You're making me like League more 2bh
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>>69529376
>>69529397
>bourgeois scum
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>>69529397
So Rugby Union clubs don't pay their players?
What kind of commie shit is that?
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League is better unless you want to act like a self entitled prick like this guy apparently >>69529397
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>>69529402
rugby union has no downs. its boring as fuck because of it because a team could just hold the ball for the entire game theoretically advancing only 1 inch every tackle. League has a down system like american football and is much more entertaining to watch.
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>>69529447
This lad gets it, league is faster and has much better pacing
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>>69529426
rugby union players usually come from rich as fuck parents.
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>>69529402
>How do they differ in rules?

I'd just be throwing at you you don't understand.

League is designed to be more entertaining, union's for people who like to pretend they're middle class for 80 minutes
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>>69529426

Union players are paid now, but it wasn't the case for ages.

>>69529428
>>69529447

Rugby Union has so much strategy and tactics with all the set pieces which makes it 100x better than Thugby League.
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>>69529376
>>69529397
t. Southern Fairies.
having played both union and league, I can attest that league is far better. game is faster paced, rewards skilled faster passing and ball movement, and requires far greater levels of physical fitness. children's league teams make more tackles than professional union teams do, and run more yards in a match generally. union is only good if you like to wank over 'muh middle class history' 'muh pure code' etc, it's the same shit FIFA pulls to try and get out of video referees
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>>69529472
yes. with league you can't hold the ball ad infinitum like in union. you have a certain amount of times you get tackled before you have to turnover the ball.
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>>69529402
>>69529417
>>69529428
>>69529447
>>69529472
>>69529484

Lol these fucking plebs

Enjoy being poor!

By the way Americans - Union is the only game people care about internationally. When people talk about the England rugby team, or the All Blacks, or the Wallabies, they're talking about Union. International League is completely and utterly irrelevant.
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league is boring and gay, union is real rugby, and sevens is a fun game if youre not fat
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>>69529509

Poor northern scum detected, go back to your working men's club mate and drown your sorrows in a pint of watered down shitty warm beer
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League is superior in every way

Unless you are posh knob that wants to advance his corporate career, play and watch league
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>>69529491
in union you can literally hold the ball the entire game progressing 1 inch leading to hundreds of tackles on 1 possession and the other team never gets the ball. You can win by simply kicking the ball into the goal posts in the final seconds.
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>>69529549
I played for england boy's at union, a professional league club until my knees blew up, have been paid to play cricket and I have a degree in philosophy. trust me i'm probably more middle class than you
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>>69529562

You can but a team that is aggressive and scores tries will always beat a team that tries to win by kicking.
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>>69529520
Union is boring. I don't care if its popular. League more fun. also fuck off bourgeois scum and/or class cuck who pretends to be rich on a chinese hentai chatroom.
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>>69529520
>When people talk about [...] the All Blacks, or the Wallabies, they're talking about Union.

Yeah no shit spastic, they're the nicknames specifically for their union teams
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>>69529581
>hurr durr we are gentlemen and would never stoop so low as working class scum in trying to game the system

wait til blacks start getting into union. they will do exactly like i described and union will have to set up a downs system.
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/nrl/ RUNS /sp/
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>>69529578
Jake? KCL?

>>69529586
League is shit, enjoy being poor

>>69529597
Which is what I was explaining to our yankee friends, what don't you understand about that?
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>>69529608

What are you even talking about? You can score 2 tries and score 14 points, which is far more desirable than trying to score 5 attempts at kicking the ball.

Some teams do try to dominate possession and win by kicking but it usually backfires on them when the other team scores a try and wipes the lead out, like how Wales beat England in the World Cup.
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>this thread

PLEASE
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Holy shit

Big Strong Americans blowing union scrubs the fuck out
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>>69529667
jake is a faggot name
>>69529693
WATCH
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>>69529701
bait
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>>69529634
this. Australians are masculine manly men while Union twinks are poofs.
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>poonion
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>>69529718
OUR
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>>69529786
not an argument
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Does the USA have a Rugby League...League?

Seems like the GOAT version of Rugby desu
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>>69529885

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Rugby_League

Jacksonville Axemen and Delaware Black Foxes sound cool
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>>69529933
Jacksonville Axemen would be my local team.
Better start shilling for the USARL 2bh
PRO Rugby (Rugby Union) Is literally shit-tier. It only has teams in the west, not to mention the fact that their fans are bigger yurosnobs than soccer fans
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>>69529562
No. You do realise that you can contest for the ball at any point? If a team doesn't get any possession it's their fault for being shit.
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>>69529426
rugby union is professional since 1995
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>>69530018

Yeah, PRO seems like a botched attempt already, the soft launch of an unfinished product isn't going to stick.

To be fair though, Union is growing, sort of. USA actually won a Sevens tournament, and there's talk of hosting the World Cup in the 2020s.

Back to League, what is bonkers is Toronto is likely getting a team in the third tier of English Rugby League, so would be the teams of towns like Barrow and Keighley.

http://www.skysports.com/rugby-league/news/12196/10256500/toronto-given-go-ahead-to-enter-club-in-english-rugby-league
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>>69529402
>Union is for middle-class / well off people. League is for plebs.
>You're making me like League more 2bh

rugby union being middle-class and posh private high schools stuff is an anglo thing, in France it's pleb as fuck

rugby league used to be really popular in France before WW2, but since then its popularity had been reduced to only this little place in pic, for some reasons
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>>69530018
There's the rugby team in Ohio though
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I went to the sevens tourney in Las Vegas this year, was kinda fun
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>>69529780
>Australians are masculine manly men

rugby league players post pics of them drinking their own piss or sucking their cat's ass

most of the time, people don't consider this kind of activities as very masculine, but I guess this is a cultural thing, so who I am to talk?
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>>69529328
Union forever and always.
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Union is better
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>>69530267
>piss
>cats
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>>69530184
France has one of the Union leagues tbqh.
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>>69530326
*one of the best
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>>69530340
the wealthiest, for sure

but also really boring

too much focus on power play, possession game, crashbang rugby and risk averse strategies

always more and more physicality and physical intensity, less and less technical skills, tactical awareness and decision making
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Rugby league is just American football without the dynamism of the forward pass, and you can be pretty much guaranteed that the first 3 tackles of every set will be a power run straight up the middle.

Its repetitive as fuck.
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>>69530691
Rugby union is boring as fuck.
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The thing to remember about the bogan is that their allegiance is not to any particular sport, but to the nation of Australia.

It is for this reason that the Australian bogan gravitates so strongly to the three tent-pole sports of boganism - Cricket, Rugby League and AFL. The bogan gravitates to these sports not because he enjoys, or even understands them. The bogan cares only that Australia is the best, thereby validating the bogan. And where else can the bogan assert that Australia is best, other than on the sporting field, where there is a clear winner and loser.

It is for this reason that the bogan will sometimes be seen supporting the wallabies - albeit often furrowing his brow in a vain attempt to understand the sport of rugby. They can't understand how an Australian team might not be the best in a sport, but they will support the team when the team appears to be on the cusp of establishing themselves as the best in the world, only to promptly decry the sport, and not the team, in the event that Australia should lose. A failure of the national side is a failure of the bogan himself, and the distancing of one's self worth from the worth of the national sporting team would require a degree of metacognition that the bogan is simply not capable of.

So the rest of Australia will continue to humour the bogan, as without them our shipping, construction and minerals industries would grind to a halt. And the television networks will continue to play AFL, rugby league and cricket in order to pacify these puzzling creatures. And every now and again on a humid summer breeze you will hear their cries of ">muh state of origin" and ">muh Warney" and you will know that the Australian economy is in safe hands, at least for the immediate future.
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>>69530691
Watching union does kinda suck cus it can be very slow but playing union is much better in my opinion as leauge kinda minimizes the difference between position and favours back type players
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I spoke to an english co worker about rugby and he said that rugby union in north america is faster paced and harder hitting than at home as we have the influences of handegg and furpuck while at home more tactical "hands off" sports are favoured so in turn rugby is played this way aswell is this just bs or what ?
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>>69534475
English rugby, and northern hemisphere rugby in general, is slower and built more around the kicking game. Its a lower risk strategy but results in less tries compared to the southern hemisphere sides where the running game, and backs takes a far greater focus.

I guess it makes sense for there to be more running in North America as its easier to turn a American football player into a decent back than a decent forward.

>>69534351
I honestly think league is slower, it's in the best interest of the team with the ball in both sports to resume play as quickly as possible. In union the team in possession is able to impose themselves on the ruck and secure faster release of the ball, whereas in league the defending team are able to slow the ball down and the attacking team can't do shit.

Maybe watch some NZ union, as we generally play the quickest.
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>league fans so desperate and ecstatic over international attention they're pandering so hard, looking so pathetic

K E K
E
K

pathetic.
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>>69535053
Well, the average team in the US is only going to have 2-4 guys out there who can comfortably and convincingly kick, let alone return then kick it back, it's not even a given your wings are able to kick

So yea, it's physical as shit here, not much air game and back play isn't always going to be more than basic Xs and shifts and the like
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League is shit
If you're going to play downs put fucking pads on and forward pass it you fags, League is just touch rugby except you get to hit people, fucking boring zero strategy "game"

7s is going to be the one the US ends up kicking ass in, it's popularity is skyrocketing and its skillsets transfer pretty cleanly from Football
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If you look at the timestamps, it looks like league is for people who don't have jobs and can post on 4chan during business hours when the big strong union supporters are at their corporate jobs.
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is this the official /nrl/ thread?

fucking kekking at all the cucklanders having a whinge after the game
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League is for retards who just want to hit each other hard. It doesn't flow like Union does.

But desu northern hemisphere Union simply isn't worth watching. They just want to run into each other repeatedly.

Watching Super 15s or whatever they call it now is like watching a different sport. Faster pace, players look for the offload, everyone has good hand skills, teams aren't scared to take risks etc. Watch the Chiefs, Crusaders, Highlanders or Huriccaines play each other to witness how rugby should/can be played.
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>>69536369

>Not mentioning the Blues who will carve up next season and likely play the final

How's your gap year working at a pub in Shepherd's Bush going, chch friend?
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>>69536632
Having the Ioane brothers playing a full season with give them a couple more wins, but I still think they lack a proper distributor in their back line.
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>>69536752

...You don't think Moala, West and Williams will be enough distribution?
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>>69532446

(Disregard flag. On holiday.)

Yep! Can't wait until footy displaces pakipaddle.
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The pinnacle of Rugby Union is viewed as the penalty goal. Every rule in the entire game is geared towards maximizing the amount of penalty goals that can be attempted within 80 minutes. Its great viewing. What a thrilling sport.
Rugby league is OK but I can't deal with all that running and passing. Sometimes a whole game can pass without a single penalty goal being kicked! Can you imagine?
I hardly ever get to sit and watch for eight minutes while a scrum collapses and repacks six times, followed by a penalty goal, in rugby league. If league wants to compete they need far more of it.
Also, there's far too much game time in rugby league. They set up too many plays and go far too long without slowing the game down with penalties, line outs and 4 scrum re-packs. What rugby league need to do is make field goals and penalty goals worth more, so more time is spent standing around watching one guy kick a ball. Did you guys see the latest Durban Pirates vs Roturua Razorbacks game? Six penalty goals to five! The pirates had no answer to the Razorbacks tactics of kicking the ball out then collapsing the scrum.
Its this level of tactical sophistication that is missing in rugby league, where as you rightly point out, its just a bunch of athletic guys trying to score tries against each other. Yawn.
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>>69536797
PLEASE WATCH OUR SPORT
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>>69536789
By proper i mean "elite".

West is magpie trash.
Moala is still an average passer with little down field vision, But in spite of that I would have him start in the black 13 jersey if Ngatai wasn't injured.
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>>69536369
>It doesn't flow like Union does.
This is a fucking joke right?
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I used to watch Yawnion until I was shown the light by WalkGod

Now that I watch at least 3 NRL games a week, I've become a millionaire, married a supermodel and been awarded a PhD in being Elite

Thank you based WalkGod
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The top sports in our country should be:

1. Footy
2. Union
3. Field Hockey
4. Tennis

Nothing else matters.
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>>69536838

Ngatai will be hamstrung by his tendency to get knocked out and will never reach his potential. and Crotty... Jesus wept, is that what the All Blacks centres have come to?
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>>69536963
During last years WC I never understood why people were freaking out about replacing McCaw and DC.

Conrad and (to a lesser but slighty equal extent) Nonu leaving was always going to affect the team more.
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union is like a book. need to take time to understand and appreciate and allows for far more complexity.

league is a movie. simple to understand, simpler to play, fun to watch but lacks any real depth
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>>69537014
The only book worth reading is the Book of WalkBro
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>>69537014

If Poonion was a book it would be Game of Thrones. If League was a book it would be Gravity's Rainbow.
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It's all shit compared to AFL

t. A superior male who plays a superior sport
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Union is like chess. Variety of different types of players(pieces), complex, can be slow at times, viewed as "boring" by plebs

League is like draughts. Simple to understand, fun to play, but gets repetitive after a while
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>>69537098
>A superior male who plays a superior sport

So you're an ice junkie then

Even AFL clubs at grassroots as young as U16's level use ice as a PED: FACT

The use of PED's in the form of steroids, HGH, cocaine and ice at top clubs is commonplace and systematic: FACT

kys now before my elite truth bombs do
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>>69537095
If league was a book it would be a pamphlet about about crohn's disease.
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>>69537129

>being this mad that his sport averages less than half the attendance at the top level than that of the AFL

kek

KEK

>http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/rugby-league-moves-to-kick-out-bush-drug-scourge/news-story/9f6a1fed227bec47e38e6f524b826609
>b-b-b-but aussie rules is the only sport with drug problems! i swear it!!!
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Rugby Union is so much better than league it's actually funny. League has zero competitiveness. There are no rucks, no line-outs, you can't steal the ball from the opposition and the scrums are so insignificant that they might as well do away with them entirely. People claim that league is more spectator-friendly, but this in my eyes simply means 'dumbed down for a TV audience'. There is no strategy at all - I was watching some league last night and I almost fell asleep even though it was only 8:00pm because it was like counting sheep. This morning, I got up at 6:30am to watch England vs Georgia but I couldn't tear my eyes away from it because it was so fascinating. Rugby League is an utterly uninteresting sport, which is probably why it is only played properly in three or four countries. I'd sooner watch American Football, which is saying something (I hate American Football). As far as I can see, league bears more similarities with AF that Union anyway, but is inferior to both union and AF. League is an amalgamation of union and AF which should really have never come into being. Union is growing anyway. It's world cup is twice as big as league's, and the players in it are actually from their respective countries. In the league tournament, they're all just localised Aussies in the northern hemisphere (with the exception of England). It simply isn't true rugby and to refer to it as rugby is sacrilege. Personally, I don't know why anyone would play league, and it is most certainly not more interesting than Union!
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>>69537141

fucking keked.
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>>69529328

Rugby League is basically a dumbed down version that low class people understand.
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>>69536954
>that article
>wanting to be this type of person
>limiting yourself to one type of sport

So many plebs in this thread it's unbelievable
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>>69537180
>Union is growing anyway. It's world cup is twice as big as league's

Fresh OC for you lads.
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>>69537261
thanks lad
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>>69537010

>He thinks Conrad Smith is better than Nonu

Also you dumb fucks just need to start play Barrett at 12 for the AB's.
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>>69537098

If your sport was any good it wouldn't have even less international relevance than Rugby League.
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>>69529328
>What's the difference between Rugby League and Rugby Union?
oh boy

>Which one's better and why?
OH BOY
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>>69537273
>he doesn't think Conrad is better than Nonu

For real though how many vowels and and apostrophes are in your last name?
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>>69537276

Kek, nice try. Rugby codes have more of an international presence because they begun it England and spread through English colonies. Try again.
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OP, I don't really watch either of these semen slurping sports but basically

>league is played by Australia
>union is played by literally everyone else

The US has a union team and a (small) union pro competition going. No league team. There is literally no reason to watch league regardless of whether you think it's """"better"""" because literally no one plays it
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>>69537293
English colonies like Argentina, France, Georgia and Japan.
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>>69537280

Generally speaking the difference is a willingness to fight for your country.
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Neutral AFL fan here. NRL players frequently switch codes to Union and make their national teams without any trouble.

NRL is the superior sport. The only argument Union fans have is >le u r le poor XDXD
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>>69537304

You're a special kind of retard.

>sport starts in england
>sport spreads to english colonies around the world
>sport begins to be played across the world, other colonies/countries/etc. take note and participate
>sport becomes played in mutliple countries

Not that hard to understand.
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>>69537293
>Rugby codes
>plural

KEK

Your """"sport"""" is completely fucking irrelevant outside of NSW & QLD. LITERALLY the ONLY other place on the PLANET that gives a fuck about it is Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

let that sink in you degenerate fucking bogan and stop riding on the coattails of Rugby

>>>/asp/
>>>/centrelink/
>>>/westernsydney/
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>>69537322
Because literally who the fuck would want to switch to league?
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>>69537328

I'm an AFL fan explaining why AFL is primarily played in Australia you autistic manchild
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>>69537328
This is STILL one of the greatest threads of all time
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>it's a union fans roleplaying as upper class intellectuals for the big strong americans thread
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>>69537334
The reason AFL hasnt spread anywhere else is because its a shit sport

>>>/asp/
>>>/melbourne/
>>>/socialistalternative/
>>>/whowantstobeamillionare/
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>>69537317
>War in Europe
>Fighting for your country

>P-P-PLEASE NOTICE ME MR BIG STRONG BRITAIN
>WE ARENT A SMALL, WEAK COLONY ANYMORE, LET US FIGHT YOUR BLOOD FEUD WARS FOR YOU XDXD
>OF COURSE WE CAN BE CANNON FODDER XDXD

Fighting someone else's war is the ultimate act of being a cuck kys
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>>69537351

Fantastic logic and a sound argument sir. Congratulations.
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Impartial cricket fan here.
AFL is dogshit.
League is pleb but watchable.
Union is elite.
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>>69537357
You 'literally' cant even convince the most relevant part of your own country to watch your shitty sport

It is the DEFINITION of an alternative sport for inner-city Cuckbourne greenies
>>>/asp/
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S T A T S G O D
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>>69537363
Literally this but I'd switch AFL and League. Unironically enjoy AFL a bit but league is so shit. Union is the best of the lot but is still very flawed.

OP just watch cricket desu
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>>69537377
>>69537363
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>>69537363
BASED STATSCUNT
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>>69537377
>>69537393
pff whatever fuck statschink
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>>69537301

We have a League team.

Finished first in our group!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Rugby_League_World_Cup_Group_D
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>>69537369

Your autism is showing again.

>yfw AFL teams in NSW/QLD average home crowds equal to or more than that of rugby

kek

KEK

How pathetic.
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>>69537384
It's completely subjective at the end of the day.
At least we can all agree that BSAs should please watch our sport.
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why is this thread still up?
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>>69537403
Interesting

I still don't even know why there's a league world cup, literally only Australia cares about it. NZ is the 2nd best team (apparently) and the entire country hates league barring a little bit of south auckland.

>>69537408
>m-m-m-mm-muh crows
I like AFL man but come on that is so pathetic as an argument.
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/rug/ belongs on asp
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statshightest = alpha as fuck
neetistic bitchspouter = lonely suicidal virgin who spends all day on /sp/ and will definitely kill himself before turning 25
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>>69537416
NZ is #1 m8
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>>69537416
There's an Australian football world championship

There's one for almost every sport, even American football
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>>69537419
Except shitspouter's already in his 40s you dullard.
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>>69537418
Excellent post Mr BSA
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>>69529328
League is for niggers.
Are you a nigger?
If yes, watch league.
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>>69537416

It was in reply to him saying AFL can't convince QLD/NSW to watch it yet it averages higher home crowds than rugby, rendering his argument completely invalid
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>>69537427
Ireland is very good at the Australian football world cup, imagining due to international rules and Gaelic football
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>>69537427
>Australian football world championship

Yep, and we're ranked 4th in the world in Aussie Rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Football_International_Cup

(Australia doesn't play in international tournaments for obvious reasons)

Question is: How do we solve Papua New Guinea?
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>>69537440

There's a pretty big contingent of Irish players in the AFL currently too. One of them in the 90s even won the league MVP, the Brownlow medal.
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>>69537438
>this fucking delusion
KEK

There are 2(two) teams in Sydney, a city with a population of nearly 5 million. One of those teams has dogshit attendances anyway

The NRL sold out the MCG. Is Cuckby Plebgue relevant in Melbourne?

Liverpool sold out the MCG. Is divegrass relevant in Melbourne?

Baseball got 30000 at the SCG. Is spicswing relevant in Sydney?

>muh attendances
kys
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>>69537473
Interesting

I've heard some Americans are going over to play, wonder how they'll do. I hope they fail
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The NRL is made for elite coordinated gentlemen.
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>>69537456
>competition is called "Australian Football International Cup"
>Australia doesn't compete

lol
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>>69537502
It'd be unfair. The US didn't play in the first two American football world championships but we've won every single one that we've participated in
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>>69537486

One of them plays as a forward/ruckman for Collingwood currently. His name is Mason Cox. Used to be a soccer goalkeeper in college I'm pretty sure. 6'11". Debuted in front of 90,000+ on ANZAC Day at the MCG and kicked the first goal of the game with his first ever kick.
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>>69537510
Yeah I know why, I just find it amusing because literally no one plays the sport outside of their little box

Having said that, if the Worriers got knocked the fuck out and >we got an AFL team, I'd unironically go and watch them.
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>>69537520
I just think it'd be sad if AFL had too many foreigners in it, it's your guys' thing and it'd suck to have to many non Aussies in it
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>>69537520

Also played college basketball.

He's an interesting story it seems.
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>>69537542

Yeah, it never will. There's only a couple Irishman per team (on average) and a few Americans and Africans spread throughout the league and a couple other nationalities here and there. It will always just stay as a two-three spot per squad for foreigners to add another dimension to each team.
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Based 3rd Kiwi here, why is this even an argument? We all know /bundescric/ > /superrug/ > POWERGAP > /nrlel/
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>>69537565
>I am based 3rd kiwi
yeah nah kill yourself cuntstain
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>>69537573

KYS shitspouter.
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The only good kiwi is the well read Sharks fan.
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Who is walkcunt? Everyday I post that he is on pooicide watch but frankly I don't know why
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>>69537589
WalkGod is omniscient. (knowing all things)

WalkGod is omnipresent. (being everywhere)

WalkGod is omnipotent. (all powerful)

WalkGod is omnific. (creating all things)

WalkGod is perfection.

WalkGod is vigilant. WalkGod is holy. WalkGod is sinless. WalkGod is sanctified. WalkGod is all powerful. WalkGod is multiple. WalkGod is multi-lingual. WalkGod is multi-national. WalkGod is multi-faceted. WalkGod is triune.

WalkGod is love. WalkGod is compassionate. WalkGod is patient. WalkGod is trusting. WalkGod is honourable. WalkGod is righteous. WalkGod is giving. WalkGod is generous. WalkGod is gracious. WalkGod is benevolent

WalkGod is understanding. WalkGod is fair. God is just. WalkGod is merciful. WalkGod is unceasing. WalkGod is tenacious. WalkGod is never-ending. WalkGod is healing.

WalkGod is commanding. WalkGod is long-suffering. WalkGod is tolerant. WalkGod is rational. WalkGod is forgiving. WalkGod is giving. WalkGod is unconditional. WalkGod is team-teaching. WalkGod is timely. WalkGod is obedient. WalkGod is serving.

WalkGod is demanding. WalkGod is a perfectionist. WalkGod is jealous. WalkGod is hating (hating sin). WalkGod is punishing. WalkGod is judgemental. WalkGod is war-like. WalkGod is vindictive.

These are all descriptive of your WalkGod and my WalkGod, the one true WalkGod. They in our simple human ways describe WalkGod and identify Him for everyone.

The one I like the best though, is the one WalkGod Himself tells to JT as JT stands talking with WalkGod on the mountain.

WalkGod says to tell the people that "I AM THAT I AM" is the name of the WalkGod of /nrl/ "I AM sent you."
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>>69537581
So you don't know who b3k or shitspouter are.
Well done fucknuts.
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>>69537601
holy fuck /nrl/ is pathetic
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BASED walkbro
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>>69537611
it has to be the greatest collection of mental illness I have ever seen

the winter /bundescric/ is objectively better than the summer /cric/ because it is completely /nrl/ free
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autism, the thread tbqh lads
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>>69537643
welcome, friend
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>>69537520
>AFL is so easy that someone who has literally never played the game before can be selected for a professional team, dayboo and score on the biggest stage of all without ever kicking a ball before

fucking state of your sport.
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>>69537552
>AFL will never have foreigners in it
>literally every team is nothing but wogs

The state of the fucking lies in this thread is outrageous.
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>>69529376
Union > League. And I'm pure Aussie. I hate League because all of the Islanders and Housos are all "FUCK YEAH LOVE SOME LEAGUE CUNT QLD/NSW BTFO YEAH", there is just no class in League.
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>>69537718
>>69537721
>>69537520
>afl
I'd rather run naked through the Indian Cricket Team's training pitch with a cut on my foot than watch 10 minutes of aerial ping-pong known as AFL.
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>>69529328
Rugby league was for poorer players that wanted compensation while injured. They changed the rules to make the game more exciting and popular. This was an unprecedented success, pic related. Rugby Union also only became fully professional fairly recently like >>69530109 said.

Interestingly, the middle/lower class split only exists in England and Australia. In every other country it was clear which sport is superior so everyone plays that. And that happens to be Union.
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>>69529816
SPORT
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>>69537885
It's only northern england as well. And, I guess, South Auckland.
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>>69537885
>TONGA SCORE AGAINST BTFO COCONUT BALL

All this time seeing this image and I still don't know what he's trying to say here
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>>69532446
But NZ beats you in rugby league.
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>>69537978
I don't play rugby league and I'm undefeated against NZ teams thank you very much.
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>>69538026
Come to think of it I'm undefeated against South African teams as well.

Only ever lost to teams from Australia and Argentina. NZ and RSA just aren't on their level.
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>>69537885
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>>69536822
noice
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Union is GOAT

League is vomit tier pure shite
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>>69529328

the difference is that Union is fucking miles better
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>>69529328
Proxy off
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>>69540497
>>69540529
no
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>>69540253
>replying to pasta
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>>69541893
>replying to a comment that replied to pasta
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