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Joey: the only person to reject Paris for Penrith.
Australia is so weird when it comes to this subject lol as a kiwi, I’m cheering on anyone who pulls on a black jersey, whether for the Kiwis or ABs. And we love when players want to swap between codes. You guys have so much talent and Australia is good at both codes, why not just cheer each other on? I just feel like it’s a non-issue lol
It because rugby in Australia outside of the few super rugby franchises there's no pathways for rugby juniors to follow other than going to Europe than they for along time they wouldn't even pick thoughs players for the wallabies anyway not sure if they have a quota now .... rugby Australia have destroyed their game in Australia .....then to rub salt into the wounds ever world cup they throw money at league players and over look the players they've invested the time and money into .... we'll always support our own though and can't wait to see young suaalii dominant.....young gun🔫 there's more than enough talent running around in the NRL to let a few go.
I watch both codes. For me there are 3 main issues:
a) Rugby Union has a great international calendar. When Wallabies play, we get told, we are expected to win the Bledisloe, WC etc etc. Expectation is far too high since 2001 last Bledisloe win.
b) Rugby Unions laws are policed differently from referee to referee. A great game of Rugby at the mercy of a French / English referee ? Forget it.
c) Any form of tackle above the shoulder is a yellow/red card. It is a collision sport.
Rugby Union has a great product, great promise now it’s an Olympic sport but still 120 years later, no one can agree what the laws of Rugby Union are. So I find myself switching back to League.
@@SirOrganicall good points you've pointed out. Especially with referee interpretations.
@@SirOrganicmaybe the punishments and way they do the cards are harsh in some cases but you can’t just say ‘it’s a contact sport’ and that be an excuse for dangerous play, there has been a serious concussion problem and for the safety of the players the cards are dealt out to encourage players to go lower. When there’s mitigating factors imo it shouldn’t be a punishment at all, right now they’re still being yellow carded which seems silly to me. But for clear high tackles with no mitigating factor the red is the correct one for the player. It should be 20 minute reds to not ruin the game but that will come.
And I don’t know what you’re going on about french and English refs, they’re the main refs in the 6 nations and they were the most entertaining games in 2023 so far, albeit the highest standard of rugby and a different level altogether.
@@jakeclough8090 Most of the HIA concussions where players leave the field, are caused by players making a defensive tackle. I.e putting your head in the wrong position. Players are more likely to leave the field collecting an accidental hip or knee, as compared to a high tackle from the opposition.
When there are mitigating factors... a yellow/red card still seems to be issued which ruins the game as a spectacle.
Finally, if you want a French referee. So be it. Games in the Northern/Southern Hemisphere are referee'd differently and has always been this way. There is a collective gasp when you here we got a French ref is in charge before a Tri Nations/Rugby Championship game.
There is only a code wars between the two codes in Australia literally no where else. In England both codes just mind their own business. In NZ the super rugby franchises get along very well with the Warriors, never say any negatives about each other. The one notable difference is that in Australia League is bigger than Union. I understand why NRL bosses don't want them to take players because if the Wallabies get to the top of the world it could cause a decline for League in Australia, but they have to stop acting so insecure and petty about it.
You’re wrong about that, England rugby have worked hard to bring down rugby league and the warriors/super rugby get on about as well as the nrl/SR teams in Australia
Hundreds of years later they still crying! Australia and NRL is exactly what America is to NFL. They both claim it to be the best sport in the world while rugby union doesn’t claim that at all. Union is too big played by over 119 countries. League is only big in Australia and UK with NZ becoming fans despite only having 1 national team.
@@nameless1873 Rugby fans cry all the time about league nurseries taking "their" players. I'm a fan of both codes, I hear it all the time.
@@jake567100 Show me information or a clip where union is crying about league taking players? Never heard of it. Plus you said I couldnt be more wrong if i tried but well here is a fun fact.
The limited tackle rule, was introduced in 1966 that each team was only allowed four tackles. This came about as a result of a match between Huddersfield and Hull KR, during which Huddersfield only touched the ball twice during the entire first half.
Hence y i said they also cried about not getting the ball enough so they even limited the amount of tackles.
Rugby union did its best to make rugby league illegal in South Africa, Greece , & many more countries. It even worked with the Nazi's in France, leagie used to be bigger then union in France
RA have signed one guy and tNRL are talking of changing rules. Why so scared? Neither code is going anywhere
Man, these Leaguies are obsessed with this "code war" nonsense. You are going to lose players to Rugby, it is natural and fine, some will return, many won't. Some Rugby players will also play league, a lot of Rugby juniors get selected for the NRL, and that is fine, that is what they want to do. The elite level of players in Rugby are not offended by the high salaries, as those that are good enough know that the French and Japanese comps will feather their nest eggs perfectly fine.
The NRL has been poaching Schoolboy Rugby union players for years and now they are crying some of their players are being poached back? Joseph Suallii, Kalyn Ponga, RTS, Asofa Solomona, Will Pensini, Jojo Fifita, Craig Wing just off the top of my head. All schoolboy Rugby players. RTS is coming back to League because he knows he won't make the All Black world cup squad barring an Injury Crisis. Rugby Australia is a complete joke right now and it shows by them offering Suallii Millions when they literally could of offered him 50-100k 2-3 years earlier when he was still in school. Instead they let the talent go to NRL 😂 and buy back for millions.
Also it still blows my mind that some League players still think Union is a snooze fest. Have they ever watched a Crusaders vs Blues Super Rugby game? The skill and entertainment on display is brilliant. They probably watched one England vs Wallabies test match and came to the conclusion Union is garbage. To be honest I don't blame them 😂.
poaching union players? ohh all the players you named that played league first or played league and union growing up then union schools offered them a fully paid scholarship …. no one forces them to play league they play league because its a better sport the only player i know of that got poached from union without ever playing league is waerea-hargreaves
As someone with experience in the school rugby system, I can tell you it’s the schools who generally first “poach” the kids at a league carnivals. That is where the vast majority GPS schools’ talent comes from.
You think all these kids from working class families just ended up at prestigious rugby schools by accident?
I like watching both codes but some of these league pundits contradict themselves so much. Call union so boring to watch and they admit they never watch the game.
No one watches the domestic game but they might catch the odd international, doesn’t make them wrong
@@jake567100 probably makes it worse then because international rugby is the peak of rugby. but lets be honest, it's the go-to for every league fan just to slander for the sake of it.
@@manuelcosta8479 Manuel, i live in argentina. People know nothing about league, so I’ve got to watch it if I want to have any sort of interaction with people about sport. I watch all the puma games and used to watch the jaguares with my father in law… and I’ve got to tell you it’s a snooze fest. The constant stoppages and inexplicable penalties damage it as a spectacle. I know people love it, and that’s fine. And I don’t care if we lose the players, because we have lots of quality players. It’s rugby who need them, so a Nathan Cleary can go, because there is an Adam Reynolds, a nicho hynes, a cam Munster or a DCE who can replace him. League just churns them out. Y con un apellido como Costa, de donde sos?
@@shanewilson199 Soy de Portugal, vivo en nueva zelanda. watch the Rugby World Cup this year, World Rugby is trying to do something to prevent the stoppages. The stoppages in rugby are no where near as bad as American sports. there are about ad breaks every 5 minutes in their sporting contests.
@@manuelcosta8479 peak of rugby but still not particularly entertaining of late. Rugby matches have gone down in quality gradually over the last twenty years. There’s a major focus on winning contact, field position and forcing penalties. It’s a boring combination
Definitely more money in Union, specially abroad.
Rugby has more money for the top 1%. Per Avgerage NRL has the highest paid players in any league/Union comp in the world.
For example if you played for the Waratahs & Wallabies you’ll play in potential cities like…
London, Paris, Tokyo, Rome, Hong Kong, Cape Town, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Edinburgh, Auckland, Fiji, Samoa, Johannesburg, Naples, Marseille and Cardiff in front of 60-80 thousand sell outs.
Also you’d play in an actual World Cup and possibly go to the olympics and win a medal. Plus earn double in Europe. Yeah I can’t see why they’d be tempted.
In league you get play in…
Campbelltown, Townsville, Penrith and Newcastle lol and play origin 😂
If you play for the Wallabies you can travel the world and get thrashed in every city 😂😂😂
@@jnic2165 wallabies last year lost 40-14 to the all blacks. Rest of the games were decided by 10 or less. Beat South Africa, Argentina, England, Scotland, Japan, Italy and wales. Not to sure what ur talking about brokie 🤣
@@josephmadden6333they lost to Italy in a half empty stadium 😂😂
@@jnic2165 bruh in our lifetime league will die as a sport. Australia is the only reason it exists. It’s existence is always hanging in the balance. All union needs is for the wallabies to start winning world cups again, super rugby money starts going through the roof and all the best talent will go to rugby. And league will die a slow death over 20-30 years. That’s why all the heads of league are acting so salty. Rugby Australia will never go bankrupt because there’s to many wealthy benefactors but if it went bankrupt tomorrow, the game will still be around in 500 years
@@josephmadden6333Rugby is a dead duck in Australia and it's never going to catch the NRL. The NRL has a TV deal worth 640m a year, RA is worth 35m per year, not to mention Union gets slaughtered in crowds, tv audience and participation...but yeah, keep dreaming bruh 😂😂 Union is going to overtake the NRL 😅😅
As they say history repeats a la Sailor, Rogers & Lote
I wanna hear the stories about the times joey shelved pingers in Paris and Capetown !
Careful, he's a protected species
RTS will not make it in the AB's RWC squad, once Jordie Barrett moved to 12 it pushed RTS to about 4th choice 12 for the AB's thats why they tried him on the wing last year but he didn't really do much
Rts would kill barrett in league
@@TeeJay23MvP Thats pretty obvious Barrett's a Union player.
@@RatEdwards come through league brother you might never need rugby again 🖤
@@TeeJay23MvPhard to believe right now. He gets bumped off by no names in Rugby at the moment. I think his confidence in ruggaz has fallen off. I blame the prep time. Because of the lock downs in 2020 he didn't get enough time to get his basics back pretty much went straight into the lions den and it didn't quite pay off. Unfortunate. I really want him to do well in ruggaz.
Thanks god the Aussie lads stick to their league otherwise we may not win quite as easy , actually I’d love to see a stonking good Aussie Rugby team “bring it “ to us , we really haven’t been challenged lately , I remember crying as a young fella when the Aussies beat us back in the late 70s , the Ella era , great rivilary , league and rugby, love it
nearly beat you in 2022 did they not? when someone time wasted and threw it away like a muppet
"I haven't seen RTS play Union but he will be in the AB squad for the RWC in France"-geez are these guys for real.
RTS actually got hooked from the Blue's this season after missing tackles.
Given his form RTS is at best a very slim chance of making the AB's.Maybe if there is a LOT of injuries he stands a chance otherwise nah.
Like the rest of Australia they don't watch Union. They have no idea about the ABs or RTS
The nerves on display by people higher up in league is laughable. Union is a far bigger game with far greater opportunities. The chance of playing in a World Cup that people outside of Australia and the north of England care about is a big draw. So too is the chance to go play for a European club down the line. The NRL will always be limited by its boundaries. I personally enjoy both sports but there is simply now comparison in terms of opportunities. Also RTS will not make the All Blacks squad, far too much talent for NZ in the 12 channel.
thu99ery sports, nothing comes out good on those all players. Their brain constantly being steered to be aggressive, swearing, spitting
Apparently 857 million people watched the last RUWC 😂😂😂
Union doesn't have a competition like the NRL expecially in the southern hemisphere and don't tell be super rugby compairs.
@@roby7444 absolutely no way to make an argument for Super Rugby being on a par with the NRL at the present moment. Yet, it is more a case of union having less limitations than league from a player perspective. The Heineken Cup is a huge competition, The URC with the South Africans included is immensely competitive and entertaining, the English Prem will get back on its feet and the French Top 14 (which is actually the closest comp to the NRL) is an incredible product. Even the Pro D2 in France is ultra competitive, throw in the MLR growing quickly and the Japanese league and you can see why there is so much more opportunities for players in union. Internationally the two sports aren’t even in the same stratosphere, Union is so far ahead in terms of competitiveness, entertainment and interest around the world. Again more opportunities for players on a global stage.
@@PEBMUNI would say the English premiership is in a pretty good state competition wise. I hear a lot about England teams being weaker but I mean they’re not really weaker, only Toulouse, La Rochelle and Leinster are in their own stratosphere then it’s pretty competitive and a similar level across the urc, top 14 and premiership
What a great discussion point. I personally only follow the NRL for the greatest contest in world sport that it is - warts and all. At the same time, if Australia play New Zealand, South Africa, England, France, Argentina in Rugby Union, I'm there every time. Great sport is great sport.
Good point Joey I think the nrl will bring out a number of years they have to be at union before this can come back
Why be so petty??
Code wars seems to be a bigger in Australia than NZ. Most All Blacks will also support the Warriors if they were going well
Why did Joey admit that he had practically signed whilst in his pomp, if the game has no draw and a halfback would be bored over there?
And last week or so he is helping put with some up and coming Rugby Union players ?....must of been on something.
I don't understand why they are all so sour towards union. I've played both as well as watch. 5 tackles then a kick is very predictable, with the last tackle the enD of the game. No set piece, which only adds extra layers to the game. The excitement of a game 5+ minutes into extra time with the defending team infront holding your breath. Much more opportunity in union with huge test matches. Each to their own though. The marketing is great for union 😂
Union is even more predictable. How many times will teams kick over the touchline instead of run the ball, kick when inside their 22 instead of run the ball and choose to kick for goal instead of running the ball. When you watch a game of Union you can not just expect these things to happen, you can bet the house on it.
@@sportsfanivosevic9885 pick and go, pick and go, pick and go, inexplicable infringement.
Rugby is much more unpredictable, you just never can predict when the next penalty will come 😂
It actually hasn't heated up at all
Totally agree with the guys
Dual code players is the future.
Rugby Union is a Dead Game in Australia... Blame Rugby Australia for crap running... Since Ewen Mckenzie they effed him up... No respect... And it has never been good
nothing to do with rugby Australia. everything to do with the All Blacks dominance in my opinion. Lets call a spade a spade and admit Australia don't want to act like they care about union when its pretty much the only notable big sports they regularly lose to NZ in.
Most of the league players that play for NZ or that have come out of NZ start playing rugby and touch rugby at like the ages of 5 in NZ, The warriors are NZs team practically which means in saying that kids in NZ see them get no where and dont even wanna go in that direction, yet out of a country of 5 million we still somehow turn into league players and do very very well, NRL needs to remember its rugby 1st in almost all the countries not named Australia where Union is bigger
It's life...
1.8 mil is pretty tempting
Cmon Joey you seem a bit salty about Union now what changed mate. Usually you have pretty fair things to say about it.
Especially when he almost went himself...
Payne haas could be the next big thing at number 8
Vlandys is gonna be chairman of RA in about 2weeks n he gonna do whatever his crazy rich homies tell him to do🏈🏈🏈
Its a bit too league centric this panel, the argument is solid from rugby, it really is an international sport. The best league has to offer is interstate, SOO and thats good enough. The international rugby teams are really some awesome teams, the talent they have in some positions WOW.
The problem I find is that talent from league fail to successfully crossover, so if leagues the better code why are they failing?
You're right, NRL players never succeed in Union 😂😂😂
Come on bro some of the best players from union have been cross overs from league for England,new Zealand and Australia
@@roby7444 @powerdog yea most union players play League at a young age but as they develop through the nz high school system (Rugby) they become awesome players. Please name all the league cross over players?
Youll find theres only enough to count on fingers on both hands, which is to wrongfully say League is the best code.
@@southsidecustom2024off the top of my head the following NRL players all played Internationally for thier country, Sailor, Taquiri, Naboli, Vuna, Karabeeta, Wright, Te'o, SBW, Burgess, RTS, Rogers, Vulivanu, Rona, Hape, Thorne, Voloakano, Radradra, Shifoski, Walker, Tahu, Folau, Cross....that's off the top of my head, there an many others.
@@jnic2165 How many won a super rugby title, or a world cup? Then second how successful were they at the crossover, some returned and some went kn to play 2nd tier compititions. Look that list is spanning over 20 years thats a long time to pick players from.
It's a business so why the rugby league are not paying more. These players don't have that much time to play football so any good offer, it's a opportunities to better themselves and their family so what is the problems. I am sure if the rugby union offer these sorts of money to Billy, Andrew or Freddy no one know if they going to take it or not. It's like the NRL having trouble excepting the indiciduals decision.
Why can't Australia Rugby Union snatch this youngsters while in their schooling days and not when NRL have them play in the senior grade?? Just confusing everything...
Union can't compete with League financially. If you're a 17 year old are you going to take $300k from an NRL club or 85k from the ARU ?
Rugby pundits respect league and league players. Whereas all league pundits do is attack rugby and rugby players. It’s cheap and low class behaviour. I watch and follow both sports equally.
I would say it's much worse in England, do you remember how Burgess was treated? The balance seems to be right in NZ, both sports co exists in harmony. But then again that's NZers for you, nice people.
Good on billy for standing up for this sport 🤙🤙, because Joey and Freddy only have loop holes
thu99ery sports, nothing comes out good on those all players. Their brain constantly being steered to be aggressive, swearing, spitting
No wonder the code wars are an Aussie thing despite RA going after players like Haas, Murray, and the elusive Cleary instead of sorting out the pathways where league has the upper hand on grassroots, also a pity that the NRL/ARL are short-sighted on expanding the game further internationally instead of keeping it stagnant on club footy despite logically shifting international tests towards the end of the year in the autumn.
No idea why NRL pundits are whinging over this when their grassroots are well ahead of union churning out an endless supply of players non-stop, at least the "code wars" thing isn't huge anywhere else where fans enjoy rugby regardless of what code it is.
Billy ,the current state of the game is good reason to to go to union e.g hipdrop tackles,HIA 11 WEEKS on the sideline .IDIOTIC ,INCORRECT OFFICIATING from BOTH ONFIELD AND UPSTAIRS OFFICIALS.
A similar thing is happening in RUGBY UNION with introducing NEW LAWS every year.
Sooner or later BOTH CODES will be TOUCH FOOTY.😢
1,6m a year to 1m a year rugby compared to league i usually agree with Billy but for me you would be a mug to turn that kind of money down and travel the world meet new contacts, i think the way League is reacting is strange to say the least its like they feel threatened? why??
League wants to expand the number of teams, especially in QLD, so losing up and comming talent to Union is not helping to promote the game.
Not traveling the world as a tourist but STARRRRR!
@@beianimeyah24as SBW said, play rugby and you'll be semi famous 😂😂😂
I'm pretty surprised by the reactions to be honest I thought nothing of the Hass thing. Even they dont think hell go so why even bother worrying about it.
But one bad contract in union could see them come back to league on unders. I say stay with league, have fun and build a legacy and start a business use your brand and network from league after retirement
Aussie leaguies are so short sighted, this is why the games growth has stagnated and why union grows year over year, i love league grew up playing it, played both, and i prefer watching league but the brains trust behind league are stuck in the dark ages, and i feel bad for the sport
Poor little league players don't like a little competition from the big boys of rugby....such whingy hypocrites
But Joey you were a big fan of the Super 12 when it 1st came out? Stop downplaying the fact you were going to go to Union.
League guys getting a little bit worried by the looks of things
I'd watch AFL before I watch Rugby Union, because it's a stupid game and the standard of Australian Rugby is, quite frankly, awful. Eddie Jones looks around at the talent pool in the ARU and says that they need League players to ever win again, and he's a better judge than me, it stating the obvious to me.
League so dumb , they’re freely marketing union by talking about them
Hahahahaha. Union needs a bit more help then that mate. Its a dead sport in this country.
Agree, that Vlandys guy talking about union getting no headlines in Australia then he goes and says clickbait material about the sport about every day. Not to mention it makes him seem like a child with some of his comments.
@@stanjurd1192 yeah but they’ve clearly hit a nerve and league is getting emotional about rather than being business minded
League is basically an amateur game at best outside of Australia lol
Yeah but league is light years ahead of Union in Australia. I don't think the fans care if rugby or league is bigger OS
This is not a 'Code War' no other Rugby nation is raiding NRL. It's only Australian Rugby. The ALL BLACKS don't need to raid Rugby League because they build their own talent through grassroots and in Europe, they have the billionaires that own the clubs in England, France and the Heineken Cup Competition which is one of the richest competitions in the world. So please, stop referring to this war like it's the whole Rugby Union. It's just Australian rugby alone and the reason they are raiding the NRL is because they didn't give a sh*t about their grassroots who flock to Rugby League and then have to pay millions to bring them back to their game they ignored them in the first place. We all know in Rugby Union how Australian rugby is a joke.
So let them do it. It will finally ruin and lead to the end of union. So what's the problem? If this is the case they should allow more league players to join union.
Has Joey ever seen a rugby union game? Is he off his meds again? If Cleary plays union probably at 10, he wouldve touch the ball way more than 3 times..same with Haas..playing 10 in union is a lot harder than playing 7 in league..
Rugby league have been doing this to Rugby for years, so cut it out!! Stop 🛑 you guys come here to NZ and take our plays from 1st 15 rugby to come to Aussie and play NRL…. We don’t care here in NZ…. All Blacks All they way!!! ⚫️⚫️
billy is right
Rugby union has too many draws
wouldnt have as many if they played golden point aswell
@@tomriddle4738 I've seen a penaly shootout before in rugby, that was interesting but golden point is still better
Exactly took the words right out of my mouth. Why play Union running the ball only 3 times. In union you have to work a lot harder to get the ball maintain the ball and then run the ball. League is good to watch but not as physically demanding as Union. Union and league players have been switching codes for years but only league cry about it, why? League was a sport that first came about because the south were crying that the north wouldn’t let them play rugby union so they created their own sport different from the Rugby Union” to the “ Rugby league” and changed to limit the amount of tackles cause some were also crying they didnt get the ball enough, hundreds of years later they still crying… is crying all league can do?
I’ve played both. League is definitely more physically demanding compared to rugby. Not saying union players are less fit, but a game league is like doing 50-100 hundred metre sprints at full intensity, plus generally larger collisions. Union is more like a marathon, definitely hard work, just less intense
No lad Yorkshire and Lancashire used to regularly beat southern teams at union prior to 1895.
However their players were from a working class background compared to southern players who were from a more privileged background.
If these working class players got injured they couldn’t work, it’s pre 1895 no sick pay so they may of ended up in the workhouse.
That’s why rugby league was invented , to protect its player base.
@@GaelicGuy actually no lad.. yes payment dispute was the main issue for the initial split but the dispute was because yes rich people played the sport didnt need to be paid and the working class werent rich hd less money they had to work so they wanted to be paid for playing. There are a few other issues why the split but I only mainly pointed this out without specific because would make a longer novel to point everything out fully. Was inly trying to make a certain point and that point has been proven. Point is league players cry over everything even from its origins
@@davidm3997 yeah i kinda get where your coming from as this debate has been happening long far and wide but its fact and has been proven time and time again even by professional league players themselves and arguably one of the most infamous players said it SBW “ it is easy to take the ball in league do one hit up, run up and back but in union you constantly have to do that and more whether u have the ball or not”. Tuqiri, Sailor, and others have all said similar. I myself play both and i don’t get tired in a league game as a forward… but as a big unit forward in Union im constantly running all over the place with ball in hand or not and by half time im tired. How many players in league do u see are tired after constant play? When u donsee constant play they a really tired. Now imagine when theres endless tackles? Common sense you’d think would prevail. In league I can do one run and stop and take a long breather. Than do it again once i catch my breath. I cant do that in rugby until that whistle blows. Given im not the fittest person but that proves my point even more. Most players of both codes are fit but only one code does consistent running. Look at the stats difference between running metres with and without the ball and tackles than add everything else union does? But i digress..
You couldn’t be more wrong if you tried
Them league players were union players first lol
These guys are so triggered by union it’s so funny, makes the league voices look terrible.
The games are too different now, professionalism has ruined rugby, only wingers can swap and be a success.
Never known such an insecure sport as RL. It's so embarrassing
Get paid more to play less and get less injuries as well as see the world. More of a lifestyle choice.
Rugby Union is a Global Game. The RWC is the 3rd biggest sporting event after The Fifa World Cup and the Olympics. Union players get the chance to become Olympians too with rugby 7s. How can you not see the appeal, Rugby Union is a bigger and more Global game than league. Only NRL fans think otherwise. I can see Payne Haas Playing No.8 or 6 in Union. Union is the big brother of league
I like rugby and always watch the World Cup but it isn’t even close to being the third biggest sporting event in the world.
Super Bowl, Le Mans, Tour de France, cricket World Cup, UFC, Asian games, Winter Olympics, women’s soccer World Cup, baseball World Series, the masters, Kentucky derby, Wimbledon, NBA finals all get consistently more eyeballs than the RWC
@carlosspicywiener05 union fans are delusional, they quote 850m fans worldwide, 10% of the worlds population 😂😂😂
But we live in Australia and here Union is dead, no one here cares what's happening on the other side of the world. empty stadiums for super rugby and no one watching on TV, why would anyone want to play rugby in Australia 😢
@@jnic2165 money opportunities to play on the Global stage. Make your name a household name around he World. Nobody knows who Nathan Cleary Tom Tubro or Latrell Mitchell is around the world but they Know who Barrett, Sexton Dupont Smith are.
@@jnic2165 Rugby league is like the UFC cheap thrills Rugby Union is like Boxing Class Prize Fighting
Joey j you were going to play there know you want to bagg them f robbing a bank with you
Crikey Union fans have thin skin 😂
The warriors don't need him he's too much hype, he left the warriors invested in him then he gapd it for his own profile and money
Why bag the other code spitful people r l is becoming boring thats a fact i still suport r l just
So the warriors next year will be
1. Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
2. Marcelo Montoya
3. Dylan Walker
4. Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad
5. Dallin Watene-Zelezniak
6. Te Maire Martin
7. Shaun Johnson
8. Addin Fonua-Blake
9. Wayde Egan
10. Jazz Tevaga
11. Mitch Barnett
12. Tohu Harris
13. Marata Niukore
14. L. Metcalf / R. Volkman / F. Lussick
15. Bayley Sironen
16. Josh Curran
17. Bunty Afoa
Pretty stacked team ngl
the irony NRL poach more players from union than union does sounds like children throwing a hissy fit. union is by far more bigger on the international stage silly NRL pundits.
I love this argument from Union fans, Union is bigger globally and therefore better.
It's the equivalent of saying McDonalds is a better restaurant than Noma because there are more McDonalds around the world 😅😅
@@jnic2165 never heard of Noma so yeah can only comment on what i know and i know these NRL pundits are feeling threatened by there own poaching methods lol
Yes come to union get shown up 😂 the thing that sucks about league is that only a couple of states in Australia and PNG care about it
So based on your logic Gaelic Football, Aussie Rules, Sumo Wrestling and Gridiron also "suck" ? 😅😅
The NRL is by far the biggest domestic league/Union comp in the world and nearly every player that has switched to rugby has played internationally and Union countiiues to poach NRL talent...NRL players hardly ever get "shown up" 😅😅😅 shows how superior NRL players are to yawnion players
Who cares. Both codes went woke long ago.
Explain what woke is. I mean its real dictionary meaning.
@@shanewilson199
Cultural Marxism dressed as virtue signalling.
Rugby is dead
More like RU is RL Dad.
What an absolute bunch of sooks. I love league and think it's domestic competition is far superior to union however it's highest level is only State of Origin and the WC/international games are very average.
These guys also are very selective when they only talk about Union stealing from league. Basically every kiwi in the NRL was stolen at one point from union e.g. Taumalolo, NAS, Brandon Smith, Papalii. Every big Auckland schoolboy game has scouts from the NRL with their chequebook out.
All just to beat the all blacks 😂
thu99ery sports, nothing comes out good on those all players. Their brain constantly being steered to be aggressive, swearing, spitting
As a huge fan of rugby league I now understand why this sport has never grown! The arrogance and ignorance from all the pundits and people that run the game is unbelievable 🤦🏽♂️
Stop bro we the best
@@TeeJay23MvP the best in 2 states of Australia
@@lauifisaufoisamoayep, NRL 1 in 2 states, Rugby 1 in 0 states 😅😅😅
Omg who cares about him more room for other's
100!