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    Quote Originally Posted by jargan83 View Post
    I like both codes and I think it is a stupid idea
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    Ditto.


    The bit of conjecture on the tele this morning was that it was to be 12-man teams, 5 man scrums, unlimited 'tackles' (but I don't know if that meant 'tackle + play-the-ball' like mungo or what)

    Whatever they came up with would have been some crap game, that neither team would have been particularly good at. Would have chewed up alot of column inches of the 'we're better than you nah nah nah' variety and I dare say all parties would have come out of it a little grubbier than they went in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oxleymoron View Post
    I would rather watch international games against the Pac Islands and the argies than a waratahs squad selection training game with the mungoes.

    Amen to that, brother Ox.

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    itd be tough but id like to see it
    union line ups, lineouts and scrums, league play the ball and tackle count is the best/most functional i can think of

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    It would have to be League scrums otherwise it would be an undertaker, not an underwriter required.
    Though we have the Frontrow for the job already...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burgs View Post
    Though we have the Frontrow for the job already...
    BaxTAH and Dunning would make great League front rowers............actually even then I think they would get a fail next to they're names.

    BaxTAH would probably collapse in a League scrum and Field Goals are only worth 1 in League

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    Quote Originally Posted by jargan83 View Post
    I like both codes and I think it is a stupid idea
    Me too, and i like them pretty much as they are. Even if this got up I doubt there would be as much interest as the promoters are claiming. A meaningless exercise.

    Quote Originally Posted by Burgs View Post
    It would have to be League scrums otherwise it would be an undertaker, not an underwriter required.
    Though we have the Frontrow for the job already...


    Gotta admit, though, the prospect of seeing Donut and Trestle after 20-odd hit ups and thirty tackles would tempting.

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    They would be stuffed, but then they would have plenty of recovery time in the half assed scrums...Chalk and cheese, apples and oranges, league and union...

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    Quote Originally Posted by frontrow View Post
    they would have plenty of recovery time in the half assed scrums...
    Oh I dunno. The mungo scrums (12 blokes leaning on each other) are over pretty quick and are rarely reset. Although Trestle might have an effect there if the mungo "props" decided to contest. He'd probably still end up on his knees forcing multiple resets.

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    Tempting as in voyeuristically and sadistically satisfying?

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    Hybrid idea to save the NRL and ARU squashed rightfully so

    By Paul Kent

    November 25, 2008

    ONLY six months ago rugby league officials were wondering how on this man's earth they could keep our greatest players on Australian shores.

    They lamented the limited funds which forced the likes of Mark Gasnier and Sonny Bill Williams overseas.

    The ARU joined the chorus soon after, warning that top-flight Wallabies were also vulnerable to being snatched by the cashed-up European clubs.

    Then along came an idea that would generate upwards of $15 million - on top of the income both games generate. And what do they do?


    The potential money spinner that is a Kangaroos-Wallabies hybrid game was dismissed out of hand - despite its undeniable potential.

    But it was a strange dismissal, and appears not dead yet.

    The ARU's carefully worded press release said it has "no interest in a promoter's plan".

    "In any case," it continued, "it is not the sort of venture that would require a middle man."

    It seems the only two parties not interested are the codes' respective governing bodies - for now.

    Australian Rugby League chief executive Geoff Carr said the body types of the players in both codes are so different - think rival props Petero Civoniceva and Matt Dunning - it would be "impossible" to play. Yet former greats, the fans, they all want to see it.

    The sports world lit up when news broke of the possibility the Kangaroos might play the Wallabies at ANZ Stadium.

    Carr said he had yet to formally hear the proposal.

    "Until someone gives me one I haven't seen or heard it, so I am not going to make any comment," he said. "But I have got a personal view and that's in 100 years no-one has been convinced it can work, so I think it would be wasting everyone's time to be honest.

    "They have got completely different body shapes and completely different techniques.

    "Both games are so different you just couldn't do it."

    http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,...-23214,00.html

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    The sports world lit up when news broke of the possibility the Kangaroos might play the Wallabies at ANZ Stadium.
    Lit up like a 15 watt light bulb ... idiot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coach View Post
    Lit up like a 15 watt light bulb ... idiot.
    Dunno bout that... might have given a geriatric glowworm a run for it's money though.

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    can I just re-state that I think it is a stupid idea?

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    ide love to see this
    it would be if they get th mixture of rules right
    an enjoyable spectacle and possible poaching of players from NRL
    or vice versa

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    But it was a strange dismissal, and appears not dead yet.
    ...not if I can milk a few extra inches out of it...

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