BATH Vs WIGAN clash of the codes Rugby à XIII contre Rugby à XV 8 mai 1996

The game is over. Now, players and journalists are talking about this first game win by Wigan 82 to 6 ( Rugby League rules). Very good memories of the Union and League all together on the pitch. Rugby is a great family.
Believe and Dare..or Who Dares Wins are for I the same.

A good example for France. A same clash would be great in Paris. First game with League Rules and the second one with Union rules.

And many thanks to Sky Sports the best sports coverage from around the world.

http://www.skysports.com/

A quand le même match en France ? Un aller et retour pour du XIII et du XV dans le meilleur esprit, tel serait le but.
Et puis pour les jeunes de ce pays, cela serait l'idéal, pouvoir choisir "son rugby".

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[jonnytheleyther]

Too easy for wigan. Far superior code of rugby. Rugby League adapted and evolved. Yawnion is still in the stone age.

[terrortorn]

@OneBigRetard Oh dear the Stuart Barnes school of Union aggrandsation. The definition of multi dimension Union is that your skills range from woefully inadequate to bog standard basic, allowing for "specialisation" in union of the inadequate ball players to be forwards. RL is one dimensional as all players are required to have the highest competence with the ball no matter the position they play. The reason U is more widespread is that RL admin is incompetent and RU admin is corrupt.

[TheLawless1985]

A French amateur RL side played a pro French champ RU side in a cross-code game last year and only lost by 4 points. Much better result than this and in the League half the side only had to go back 5 meters.

[terrortorn]

@playthatgeetar You could not write the French story, people would think it is too far fetched. The RL really missed an opportunity to publicly confront RU's bigotry but I supposed that would not have turned out well in the London based Union bias press. The RFL needs to make more concerted effort to get TV time on freeview channels.

[playthatgeetar]

Of course. I lived in Montpellier in the South of France for several years. The level of hatred our game faced there - which went so far as the collaborationist government persuading the Nazis to ban it - is maybe extreme, but we are not being paranoid when we are unwilling to accept the hand of friendship from Union - not that they hold it out so often. Edwards, Lydon, Farrell et al, we know why they went. Money. Shame they felt the need, but there you are. I

[terrortorn]

@playthatgeetar I do remember that. Also the more you look at Union without the hyperbole and spin and without the sheer brass neck of self aggrandisement you can see why they needed to marginalise RL.  We dislike them because of century's of prejudice and influence against RL and they hate us because we show them to be second rate. "Kick and Clap" is an unflattering claim to be found true.

[playthatgeetar]

@terrortorn Spot on mate. The reason why it is bigger is that it is the sport of the establishment, the ruling classes. But just because we are not as popular doesn't mean we are not way way superior morally and in sporting terms. Union - the sport of the shamateur and the physical coward (remember how Guscott didn't want anything to do with this game?). Kick and clap.

[terrortorn]

@OneBigRetard They went to Union for the money. And only the money. Don't confuse complex with flawed. There is nothing Chess like about U. Deciding whether or not to kick out on the full, collapse a scrum or fall on the floor and drop the ball is not strategy. You are stuck with the development of U and your multi failed attempts with ELV's to tinker with the rules to make it watchable. The gap is still huge, Union can never be intense enough to compete.

[OneBigRetard]

@terrortorn

And there is a reason why it is much much bigger. Chess to draughts. RU is a multi dimensional sport. RL is not. But yes, it has great physicality, skill levels etc. No doubt. But that was not the argument. The difference then was huge, now, not so much.

Besides, look how many folks on that Wigan team came to union one way or another.

[terrortorn]

@OneBigRetard No it's not bollocks. I'm saying that RU clings on for dear life to any lifeline that apologises for U in the face of its obvious flaws. You have an unevolved game and the lack of real oval ball skill is your penalty. U does not come close to the demands of RL. You average 32 mins of play per match and drown in hyperbole. How can this compare to RL. You don't hate tries, you can't score them, there is a difference. There is a reason you are called the schoolboy game.

[OneBigRetard]

@terrortorn

Err... Bollocks.

Yes, Rugby Union hates running and scoring tries so never applauds that.

So you are saying that the difference in physical conditioning was not much greater in 95 than it is today?

Besides professionalism meant that lots of top union players were playing RL in this fixture. If this was to happen again, the differences would be reversed. No way could Wigan RL last 1 scrum.