Re: Players switching from Union to League : Mon Aug 20, 2018 5:46 pm  

Codebreakers well worth a watch. Great social history of our game and the Welsh, particularly the black Welsh players who helped make our game great.
RU converts not mentioned...Tuigamala, Botica, Fairburn, and for those who think Union forwards have no guts......ladies and gentlemen i give you Big Jim Mills

Re: Players switching from Union to League : Mon Aug 20, 2018 6:01 pm  

Burtons Forearm wrote:

Codebreakers well worth a watch. Great social history of our game and the Welsh, particularly the black Welsh players who helped make our game great.
RU converts not mentioned...Tuigamala, Botica, Fairburn, and for those who think Union forwards have no guts......ladies and gentlemen i give you Big Jim Mills

It certainly is worth watching, you can see why it made sense to play as Great Britain in those days, although you have to think a golden opportunity was missed at international level. A yearly tri nations should have been played between England, Wales and France. With the talent Wales had they’d have stood a real chance and Rugby League could have gained a real foothold in Wales.

Re: Players switching from Union to League : Mon Aug 20, 2018 8:06 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

It certainly is worth watching, you can see why it made sense to play as Great Britain in those days, although you have to think a golden opportunity was missed at international level. A yearly tri nations should have been played between England, Wales and France. With the talent Wales had they’d have stood a real chance and Rugby League could have gained a real foothold in Wales.

Absolutely. And the game is much poorer now for not establishing the international game then.