kobashi wrote:
No he is waving the flag for rugby union. Never understood why league fans think that league players playing union is somehow good for our sport.
When he first signed for bath I heard Brian noble and others say how if he plays at Twickenham in s world cup it would be great for rugby league.
Where do people get these crazy ideas from? It's more inferior complex and basically saying that a rugby league player is not big until he puts on an England rugby union Jersey.
Can't imagine the media and fans in Sydney are saying that Sam burgess playing union for England is great for rugby league.
The reason is simple if you take off your Stevie Wonder's. Rugby Union outside of Sydney is a massively more popular sport with a huge worldwide TV audience.
Therefore just as Jason Robinson's success over a decade ago was good for Rugby League. Sam Burgess has had more mentions and national sports headlines in the last week than the SL has done all year. In each case his former League CV is rolled out for all to read therefore if he achieves some success in his short and limited Union career this will reflect well on his RL upbringing.
RL has such a low media profile that the BBC, on the day they relied on our Challenge Cup final to fill their Saturday BBC1 afternoon programne could not find any time to promote it on all their Breakfast time every 20 minute sports slots. Most national newspapers do not even cover SL.