The Avenger wrote:
A rare moment of clarity when an intrinsic brutally honest self appraisal reveals that the player in question is hiding in an inferior game while lying to himself that he's really testing himself to the limit of his mental and physical abilities!
Such a moment can either lead to further hiding and denial or said player can leave the comfort and familiarity of his self delusion and actually seek an answer to the question:
How good am I, Really?
Union players will only ever know this if they play League at the highest level.
I salute those who've done it like Scott Gibbs and Jonathan Davies but cowards like Guscott are just pretending to have been great when the truth is they were alright in a lower standard of Rugby.
I much prefer league to union, but that's just stupid. They are two different sports. Do you think Lionel Messi looks in the mirror and says, "I might be the best football player of my generation, but it's all a lie because I've never been heavyweight champion."
And yes before anyone says anything I know that there are similarities between the codes and that mine is an extreme example, but my point still stands.
League is the faster game, but Union is by far the more technical game. You might not like Union, but is it beyond your comprehension that some people prefer watching and playing it over League?
