Quote ="Old Feller"Too true, plus I'm old enough to remember a game in the 60s when the then Welsh scrum half Clive Rowlands just kicked the ball up & down the touch line for line out after line out. How boring was that?
The problem as I see it is that the modern game - dependent as it is on penalty kicks - produces close games that seem exciting for solely that reason.
How on earth RU has the cheek to complain about RL scrums really grates too.
Sadly, an open game game of RU can be an exciting spectacle, fortunately for RL that doesn't happen too often.'"
Perhaps the most damming evidence against Union is the old Mitchell & Kenyon films that were taken at the turn of the 19th / 20th Century.
Of course, during those days 'Rugby League' was still playing to 'Union' rules post the 1895 split.
Go 65 years in to the future and Rugby Union (where an international during the 60s had 60+ scrums during the course of the game) looked more or less the same as the M & K films. Meanwhile RL, even with the no-six-tackle rule er, didn't ....
The game had seen sense, pretty much as soon as it twigged that it needed punters coming through the door to make the game pay, got rid of a sucession of stupid rules that were killing the game as a spectacle.
League scrums ?
Union Line Outs
