Let Battle Commence......

[PAULM03]

Robinson switched to Union because he'd rather be playing for england against france in front of 80,000 at twickenham on a cold february afternoon than for wigan against wakefield in front of 4,000 at the dump known as belle vue, and fair play to the lad. He's been an incredible success, but you conveniently ignored my point that it must rankle to have a succesful english union set up so heavily influenced by the league boys, and if it doesn't rankle then then you're probably not into rugby enough to be putting league down.

Players still do switch back to union after their league peak simply to extend their playing days, Tuigamala, Davies and Vaikona are 3 fairly recent ones i can think of off the top of my head.

[dave]

Doesn't bother me, and no I'm not a huge union fan, but then i don't dislike league that much either. But I believe that if union was quicker in going professional, league would be almost dead now, in this country at least.