Snobbery in RU? Maybe where you're from Champ (actually not maybe, make that definitely) but not where I'm from, where it's an everyman sport

Well done to Australia

Good luck in the final because you're not going to get 3 tries out wide in open play against the ABs!

Every rugby team is trying to score tries - that's how you get the most points

If you're not scoring tries, why not? Because the other team is stopping you from scoring tries that's why! So in that case you try and win by scoring in other ways, which are penalties and drops. It can be just as exciting and tense - a battle of wills, strengths and skills

Yes, but I predicted AB v OZ final.

Yep kiwi's are always pretty solid out wide with their defence. ...... I've been noticing for a few games now that the Australian defence is pretty thin out wide. If I were the Kiwi's that's where I'd be heading.

It's a bit childish just bad-mouthing the rugby code you don't like. We all have our natural prejudices. I played Union at boarding school, but we used to play League in pick-up games. Then for fifty years I saw neither, until I found League on a US TV station; it was interesting to see how the games had changed.

I like League's switch to non-competitive feeds into the set-pieces, and Union's apparent tolerance of the same practice of feeding the ball into the second row. I always hated the endless tackles in League, and am glad they now limit them to six. (The Toowoomba team, in the '60s, had a very light back line, which was thrilling to watch - although they usually got thumped by the heavier teams, like Ipswich.)

League allows shepherding these days, which I don't like. "Dummy runners" - huh! Union ought to scrap line-outs. League ought to tighten up on the forward-pass practice (or maybe that's just the referees). I'm surprised there are so many players switching between codes, because League is a much faster game; nobody stands around scratching himself.

Each to his own, though, eh?

Well you had a crack at union so I just informed you where it stands in comparison to league.

By the way you don't feed a ball into the second row in union. I think you have confused that with league. You should have noticed that the ball can sometimes just sit in the tunnel, waiting for the hooker to feel enough go forward to lift a leg and strike. That's a proper scrum.

Not sure what you are on about players switching to league either. May have been back in the day when union remained amateur while league went professional. Seems to be the league guys switching to the global game these days.

I will agree one thing. I played both at school. I preferred playing league as a forward as you got more ball in hand. But watching union was far better because of the diversity of the game.

What are you on about? Australia were the best team and deserved to win. If most people say this then listen too them. Just because there was a debatable penalty at the end doesn't mean for a second Scotland were the better team. 3 Scotland penalties came from a cheating scrum move on Sio anyway. You cannot bore in .... thems the rules.

This is a silly argument ....... rugby union is always the winner.

It's long been a snobbery thing in the North of England where I'm from. Union was unpaid & injuries often cost players their homes and livelihoods hence the split eons ago to RL. It's a flat cap & whippet thing lol. Union was what the public schoolboys played. The biggest difference, as many opine, is that rugby league is "a gentleman's game played by thugs", and union "a thug's game played by gentlemen".
Most of my family [The Yorkshire half] were fans of League, distant relatives playing & coaching Wakefield & Leeds sides.
Me I enjoy both codes, I watched Union in the U.K following The Ionians. Over here I follow the Broncos, we joined this year as members & have renewed for next year. Horses for courses I'd rather watch them than the Reds.
As a kid we all idolised the All Blacks. I've been to a few Bledisloe games since we arrived in 2003 which coincidentally the ABs have dominated since that year.

Looks like Sam Burgess is heading back to league. After seeing Israel Falou's sub standard performances in this world cup, lets hope he goes too. . Sonny Bill not making the starting lineup for the AB's either.

I guess the point of that is to infer that Union is superior/harder than League and you are also referring to Israel Folau. I suggest basketball next after his incredibly expensive and disastrous flirt with AFL.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-...-1226508507065

Union is basically only offered/taught in private (read public for UK) schools in Melbourne (league not in any schools). Horses for courses - a game where you pass the ball backwards to go forwards and you get rewarded for kicking the ball out of the field of play (rather than penalised) and where you are allowed a minute to kick a penalty and a few minutes to get a scrum organised is alien to most sports and it's why it won't catch on in a lot of places.

Hey kiddo, be good and inform your dad that you nicked his forum password and stop posting under his account.

They sometimes say that soccer is a game for gentlemen played by thugs!

As for Union and penalties people forget that teams win by penalties because the other team can't get the basics right and under pressure, infringe.
Tries may have been scored eventually: remember that many soccer games end in draws or the poorer team wins by a lucky goal: in Rugby the better team tends to be rewarded.

Kicking for touch is not necessarily rewarded : invariably the ball goes to the opposition. There may be some advantage if their line out is poor and they are near their own line : again it's putting pressure on their ability to get the basics right...

I'm going to bite: as I said a few weeks ago and 12 years ago, 15 years ago even: that England team had been scoring more tries than just about any other home nation for the 3 years previous, breaking records along the way, and were scoring tries on Southern Hemisphere soil 😀
They were so cohesive in the scrum, a traditional strong point, teams infringed and also conceded penalties. As soon as teams tired England racked up tries in many games : they also had a midfield in those years (sigh) and players who are starting to be forgotten already by Johnny Punter...

Is that your way of saying ....... Rugby Union is winner

Enjoy the final ...... you will be watching