O/T Rugby League is the real working class sport now

[great_fire]

Working class sport with working class (mainly local) players and working class fans.

Compare with football, only middle-class people can afford it, foreign-owned teams with foreign managers and foreign players, loads of corporate sponsors.

First got into it at University in Hull (and good to see Hull FC doing so well) only wish we had a Super League team in South Yorkshire.

[Yak]

Cracking sport honest professionals tough uncompromising fast entertaining.

Grew up watching Bradford Bulls was worth the money to watch the volcano.

Another example of a club who weren't developing their academy and it caught up with them.

[sota]

Yak, are you ex Roamin' Miller ?

[Yak]

No pal never heard of him who is that?

[sota]

An ex Marine who used to post on here. Sorry, I thought might be you.

[Yak]

No apology needed.
Never heard of him tbh.

I know a couple of retired ex forces who are millers but not that name.

[animallittle3]

I enjoy both codes myself , just watching the build up to the Lions first test against the All Blacks as I type this .

I'm a Wakefield Trinity fan , I pop along maybe 3 or 4 times a season on a nice sunny summers sunday afternoon and it's always worth the money , win or lose .

I think possibly at one time your assesment was spot on , most league players had full time jobs , the majority of Trinity , Cas and Fev players worked down the pit alongside the fans .

Not so much today now all SL players are full time pros and you have to factor in the players who have played both codes .

Both league and unions players are from more or less the same stock these days in my opinion .

[great_fire]

Listen to the commentators though and the players when they're interviewed, proper Northern accents! (except the Australians obviously).

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Rugby League

The code of rugby you play when you can't get 15 players to play real rugby

[animallittle3]

Rugby League

The code of rugby you play when you can't get 15 players to play real rugby

Hmm and yet when they had the cross code challenges in the 90's , the league game was won emphatically by the 13 and the 15 man game was a much closer affair .