Mongrel Rugby?

[AndyS]

Not a a bad discussion piece, with key phrases being:

Franks has ... made a booking at ANZ stadium for every weekend next October, convinced that momentum will stampede the bosses of the two sports into a match, with $2 million being donated....

Franks calculates fan momentum will empower him to approach underwriters for the event and embarrass officials into approving it. The support of News Ltd will be critical. The media company owns the SANZAR television contract, half-owns the NRL and is a 50 per cent owner of Fox Sports, which screens Super 14 and five NRL game a week.

Perhaps a hybrid game falls outside the conditions of an existing broadcasting contract and if so would be a bonanza to a promoter who succeeds in attracting a free-to-air network.

The Kangaroos are scheduled to play in the Four Nations tournament in the UK at the end of next year but the Wallabies have shown they are willing to chase big purses by playing in Hong Kong.

Officials might consider it an ass of an idea but what's the alternative? One code waiting for the other to die? Both games are a chance of expiring in a world where every other team sport allows a forward pass.

Franks's game might not happen in Sydney in October but one day it will.

http://www.rugbyheaven.com.au/news/n...491461648.html

[frontrow]

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

The way i read this pruc is that you would happily let the ARU select mungoes over the youth,(yourself included), who have been playing the game with representative aspirations...I would think that you would like those who have earnt thier stripes playing the game, to get selected on thier merits rather than what a mungo might "POSSIBLY" bring to the code...Or did i misunderstand???

[shasta]

"WHAT do you get when you cross a thoroughbred with a donkey," Titans chairman Paul Broughton asked yesterday regarding the possibility of the Kangaroos and the Wallabies playing a hybrid match in October.

"Answer: A sterile mule."

Couldn't agree more Paul. About hybrid being sterile. But you don't get a mule when you breed two group one performers.

[pruc]

The way i read this pruc is that you would happily let the ARU select mungoes over the youth,(yourself included), who have been playing the game with representative aspirations...I would think that you would like those who have earnt thier stripes playing the game, to get selected on thier merits rather than what a mungo might "POSSIBLY" bring to the code...Or did i misunderstand???

you would find most of the juniors in league.
it the academys and stuff
were all originally union players
league sees the potential give them a contact
sign them at 15-16
and develop
i know at national 16s this year the team that finish 3rd.
sydney juniors who we dormed with had about 12 league contracted players
and there were a few that werent allowed to play.
so really its just getting some of our juniors back into the code.

[frontrow]

So i did misunderstand you then, thanks for clarifying that mate, cheers....