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weirdo0521 wrote:
creeky wrote:Rugby is boring - why they invented Rugby League in the early 1900's :P
Didn't it have more to do with pro/amateur status?
I dont think league was pro for many years after it was invented. We have only just recently gone totally professional with rugby league.
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creeky wrote:
weirdo0521 wrote:
creeky wrote:Rugby is boring - why they invented Rugby League in the early 1900's :P
Didn't it have more to do with pro/amateur status?
I dont think league was pro for many years after it was invented. We have only just recently gone totally professional with rugby league.
I thought rugby league has been professional for a long time, and Rugby Union just became fully professional within the last ten years
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weirdo0521 wrote:
creeky wrote:
weirdo0521 wrote:
creeky wrote:Rugby is boring - why they invented Rugby League in the early 1900's :P
Didn't it have more to do with pro/amateur status?
I dont think league was pro for many years after it was invented. We have only just recently gone totally professional with rugby league.
I thought rugby league has been professional for a long time, and Rugby Union just became fully professional within the last ten years
They got paid for quite a while - but not enough to live on - its only been recently that players (last 20 years) didnt hold down a "day job" to make ends meet....

It became obscenely professional when Rupert Murdoch stuck his nose in a few years back and tried to totally privatise the clubs (they are owned by the "people" still) .

He has now removed his stupid nose and we are much happier he is GONE!
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creeky wrote:
weirdo0521 wrote:
creeky wrote:
weirdo0521 wrote:
creeky wrote:Rugby is boring - why they invented Rugby League in the early 1900's :P
Didn't it have more to do with pro/amateur status?
I dont think league was pro for many years after it was invented. We have only just recently gone totally professional with rugby league.
I thought rugby league has been professional for a long time, and Rugby Union just became fully professional within the last ten years
They got paid for quite a while - but not enough to live on - its only been recently that players (last 20 years) didnt hold down a "day job" to make ends meet....

It became obscenely professional when Rupert Murdoch stuck his nose in a few years back and tried to totally privatise the clubs (they are owned by the "people" still) .

He has now removed his stupid nose and we are much happier he is GONE!
Well I see what you mean...but rugby league has always been considered "pro" even if they did not make enough to live on...much like the earlt NFL...once a Union player played League he could never play Union again
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weirdo0521 wrote:
creeky wrote:
weirdo0521 wrote:
creeky wrote:
weirdo0521 wrote:
creeky wrote:Rugby is boring - why they invented Rugby League in the early 1900's :P
Didn't it have more to do with pro/amateur status?
I dont think league was pro for many years after it was invented. We have only just recently gone totally professional with rugby league.
I thought rugby league has been professional for a long time, and Rugby Union just became fully professional within the last ten years
They got paid for quite a while - but not enough to live on - its only been recently that players (last 20 years) didnt hold down a "day job" to make ends meet....

It became obscenely professional when Rupert Murdoch stuck his nose in a few years back and tried to totally privatise the clubs (they are owned by the "people" still) .

He has now removed his stupid nose and we are much happier he is GONE!
Well I see what you mean...but rugby league has always been considered "pro" even if they did not make enough to live on...much like the earlt NFL...once a Union player played League he could never play Union again
We have them switching about these days - union players coming to league, league going to union - all chasing the mighty dollar ..... :-?
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