You will be spewing if the Northampton Saints go bust cj

Two people...their fathers probably went to Eton and they are the black sheep of the family because they don't like Pimms.

All rather ironic, as Gloucester are one of the teams who own a share in Premiership Rugby, unlike Exeter.



I would love to see rugby union get a taste of its own medicine and feel some hardship rather than keep on lording it over us. It sounds wrong, but I really would.

Hate to bust your bubble champ but from what I know about Union... your average Union club has zero interest in 'lording' it over any league side.



I've said this before... and ill say it again.



Union thinks of League in the same sort of way that Aussies think of Kiwis.





A sort of slightly annoying but similar neighbour that ultimately you dont give a second thought about.





The way people rip on about Union on these forums makes me smile.



You would swear that the RFU are planning to invade Yorkshire and Lancashire, round up anyone who wears a league jumper and incarcerate them in a modern day concentration camp before turning the likes of headingly and the DW stadium into car parks







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Bloody hell Barry you are getting all serious are'nt you.

By the way union is on about invading where I live and I have my weapons ready.

You will be safe from the invading Union Army CJ.



You have your Northampton Saints season ticket.



When the Union Gestapo and several storm troopers smash in your door late at night screaming 'VERE ARE YOUR PAPERS' and try and bundle you on the next train to Twickenham rehabilitation centre you can simply show them and they will smartly salute you and leave.

Apologist.



ARLT.

I'm sure the RFU won't come knocking at my door in the middle of the night (they'll get a servant to do it

) but that doesn't mean that I don't honestly believe that Union has a massive superiority complex.



I have strong memories of being at school and being forced to play union (at one point it was the only sport you couldn't get out of), and being told that union was a superior game to everything else. And this was just south of Manchester city centre, which is not exactly a union hotbed.



Plus, I've occasionally had abuse from unionistas if I've had a Wire or England RL top on, and I know I'm not the only one.



But still, the RFU have an open desire to expand in the North at our expense.

Well, Philip Toynbee did say that a bomb under one stand at Twickenham would set back the cause of British fascism by 50 years...

If you are going to comment on the relationship between the two codes in the UK could I suggest that you do some research and begin to understand the history. When you have done that, you will see how false your assumptions are



On the topic of crowds, I have seen some very worrying attendances over the first few weeks of the Union season (worrying for them) - it looks like Sale, Newcastle, Leeds, Saracens etc are in for a tough season

Suggesting Rugby Union is going to try and 'kill' Rugby League is bizarre.





Its like suggesting those people that like to eat apples are going to rise up as one and declare total war on those people who eat pears.



Seriously.



Stop being so paranoid.





Rugby League will carry on being popular with those people that like it.



Rugby Union will carry on being popular with those people that like it.





I seriously think you people lie in bed at night thinking up things to worry about.

The Saracens crowd looked weirdly low, absolute mystery. I think Cj and Catalancs picked up on Newcastle and I also noted Gloucester's drop in attendances.



I doubt that any will get into financial difficulties, but the RFU might think again about its expansionism.

Quote Barry_McKenzie="Barry_McKenzie"Suggesting Rugby Union is going to try and 'kill' Rugby League is bizarre.'" OK, thanks for the insight Barry Anyway, change of topic, I’ve just finished reading this great work of fiction, you should give it a try www.amazon.co.uk/Forbidden-Game- ... 1901347052 Oh, one more thought for you... "Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It" George Santayana

Quote Barry_McKenzie="Barry_McKenzie"Suggesting Rugby Union is going to try and 'kill' Rugby League is bizarre.'" OK, thanks for the insight Barry Anyway, change of topic, I’ve just finished reading this great work of fiction, you should give it a try www.amazon.co.uk/Forbidden-Game- ... 1901347052 Oh, one more thought for you... "Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It" George Santayana

Quote Dunbar="Dunbar"OK, thanks for the insight Barry Anyway, change of topic, I’ve just finished reading this great work of fiction, you should give it a try www.amazon.co.uk/Forbidden-Game- ... 1901347052 Oh, one more thought for you... "Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It" George Santayana'" The line 'the collaborationist Vichy government' is possibly the best indication of who was responsible for the demise of Rugby League in France. Breaking News. I think banning Rugby League is quite far down on the current british governments 'to do' list... probably a few places below 'sort the economy out'

Quote Dunbar="Dunbar"OK, thanks for the insight Barry Anyway, change of topic, I’ve just finished reading this great work of fiction, you should give it a try www.amazon.co.uk/Forbidden-Game- ... 1901347052 Oh, one more thought for you... "Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It" George Santayana'" The line 'the collaborationist Vichy government' is possibly the best indication of who was responsible for the demise of Rugby League in France. Breaking News. I think banning Rugby League is quite far down on the current british governments 'to do' list... probably a few places below 'sort the economy out'

Barry what you have to realise myself and Urmston Wire have obviously had bad experinces where union is concerned.

And also like Dunbar has said there is a lot of history between RL and union(most of it bad) dating right back to 1895 to the present day.



For me RL is the best sport in the world and always will be but when I get abuse on this site from fellow RL fans and union fans for having a go at union they jump on my back and call me bigoted and once I was called a bell end(which in laughed at BTW) and yet they don't understand what I went through at the time.

In fact in 2002, the French Government found it was rugby union.









ARLT.

Quote Dunbar="Dunbar"OK, thanks for the insight Barry Anyway, change of topic, I’ve just finished reading this great work of fiction, you should give it a try www.amazon.co.uk/Forbidden-Game- ... 1901347052 Oh, one more thought for you... "Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It" George Santayana'" He is a union apologist or at best an ARLT. Waste of time.

Quote Dunbar="Dunbar"OK, thanks for the insight Barry Anyway, change of topic, I’ve just finished reading this great work of fiction, you should give it a try www.amazon.co.uk/Forbidden-Game- ... 1901347052 Oh, one more thought for you... "Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It" George Santayana'" He is a union apologist or at best an ARLT. Waste of time.

It's a pretty sad admission but I know quite a lot about the Vichy regime and this is the story as far as my research has shown.



Vichy banned all professional sport as 'corrupting'. However, only one sport was banned outright, and that was rugby league.



Now, Marshal Petain was not a huge fan of sport anyway, so he wasn't particularly bothered, nor was the real power behind the throne, Pierre Laval.



However, the leading collaborationist writer, Robert Braisillach, was a big RU fan and hated RL with a passion. He and his colleagues at the French RU lobbied Petain and Laval to ban RL and turn over its assets to union. The name 'rugby league' remained banned even after the game was re-legalised by De Gaulle, and the name remained banned until 1991.



So yes, RU actively tried to destroy RL before. Not under Nazi pressure or Petain's pressure.

I dont wish to trivialise whatever it was you went through with Rugby Union.. but I'm genuinely interested as to what it might have been that scarred you for life. Tell me.. I promise not to call you a 'Bell End'





If its really embarrassing (or of a sexual nature) feel free to pm me or drop me an email at the address below in total confidence.

You deserved every thing you got

I'd have claimed the shirt was punishment enough!

Highly revealing post about yourself Bazza

I have said in the past on this site what I went through.

I don't wish to repeat it Barry if you don't mind.

Havent seen that mate



Someone said it involved Martin Johnson, Jonny Wilkinson, half the All Blacks side from 2007 and and a bar of soap?

No mate not that one.

It happened to me a long time ago when I was young.