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[QUOTE=beige;154240]Not sure if that's sarcastic or serious
Not sarcastic at all. I think the history of both games is very interesting, the French/Nazi think was something I was not aware of.
You must be on the defensive due to Gigs!
(Booo the Northern Union. In 1895 they decided they wanted players to be paid so they broke away and formed the Northern Rugby Football Union. Slowly they started changing the rules the Northern Union later changed its name to the Rugby Football League in 1922.) Well Welshman i came from the coal mines as a coal face worker, pulled from the Colliery team and went on to play for Nottingham in the premier Division. This was in the 70s i trained after doing a full shifts work down the mine, i played on Saturdays for no money and although allowed to play with the permission of the Coal Board received no wages. We use to get a pair of boots each season and that was our payment although on occasions we were slipped a pound by one of the Directors. So that blows your payment out eh? Boo
I'm a bit late to this discussion but there was a doco on ABC a while ago, it was about the split to Union and League and the subsequent rivalry between paid and unpaid players.
It was pretty good, but I can't find the name of it just yet...
Here are 2 other ones they had that were good too:
There was one called Rugby In The Seventies, which "tells the tale of how the Wallabies were transformed from a team of easy-beats at the start of the decade to being the side capable of playing the most exciting football in the world."
Another one was called The Rise and Rise of Australian Rugby There are a few verions available, the Bledisloe Cup and The Grand Slam
Last edited by laura; 25-07-08 at 19:16.
(Whats your point? I wasn't the one that decided players should be paid and started the northern union.) No just pointing out not ever one sold out for money from the mines thats all
I must be missing something here. When did I say that every miner sold out for money? All I said in previous posts was that the Northern Union broke away from the RFU because it wanted it's players to be compensated for missing work on Saturdays to play. That was just the history, I wasn't there in 1895 when it happened.