Anybody else watching the Varsity Match tonight between Oxford and Cambridge Universitys?

Certainly am, last years was a good 'un!

Might have it on, but hardly compelling viewing.

I have never watched one of these matces before but I certainly will be watching it tonight.

They do get stuck in good and proper. I'm led to believe they train pretty much on full time as well, before their lessons start in the morning.

It's weird though because no matter how good they are, they aren't going to play the sport on a full time basis - Most graduate to become doctors etc.

Do they? I bet there's not more than a couple of medical students. I remember playing Oxford when I was at Uni and chatting with their lads they were all doing heavy academic stuff like English Lit, Classics and Greek.

Although the Varsity game is built up due to the history, the better RL players tend to come from the less academic places with sports courses such as Leeds Met, Loughborough and UWIC. We got torn a 2nd by one lad when we played Loughborough who has done the rounds of the likes of Batley etc since he left. The standard's pretty low really so even someone like him looked like a superstar at that level.

Whoever commentated on last years game named the players who were graduating to become doctors. I think one of the captains was at the end of his degree and he was off to become a doctor of some sort.

Shocking game of RL. Granted I only caught the last half hour but I don't think I saw a completed set.

I bloody missed it

If you do a PhD in Chemistry, Philosophy, English Lit, Maths etc etc you become a doctor of that subject.

lucky you i sat through it all rubbish rugby rubbish commentry i wouldnt mind watchin the manchester uni v salford uni game thou think that will be better

Yes but it was competitive, so it must have been good.

Isn't that what all the Super Duper League fannies keep telling us.

It's all academic really.

boom, tish

I very much doubt that, played them both twice this year. The increased profile for student rugby league can only be a good thing though

The Leeds Uni v Leeds Met games attract about 6000 attendance usually, I hope I can play for Leeds Uni next year.

I watched most of it, but it was crap.

It was mostly a bunch of Rugby Union players in a game with Rugby League rules.

I'm all for publicity of RL, but those games never do RL justice.