Re: union tries to shutdown league in uae : Sat Apr 25, 2015 9:13 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

How can they own the word rugby when our sport is called rugby league?

They say that their sport is rugby, and that rugby league is just another code of rugby like 7's or touch. They convince governments that RL is just a different version of their sport of rugby (similar to 20/20 cricket), rather than a unique sport.

I agree with the posters above that we really need to move away from the "rugby" name, some of those suggestions are terrible though, "leagueball", really?

Re: union tries to shutdown league in uae : Sun Apr 26, 2015 1:41 am  

headhunter wrote:

They say that their sport is rugby, and that rugby league is just another code of rugby like 7's or touch. They convince governments that RL is just a different version of their sport of rugby (similar to 20/20 cricket), rather than a unique sport.

I agree with the posters above that we really need to move away from the "rugby" name, some of those suggestions are terrible though, "leagueball", really?

Got another suggestion?

Re: union tries to shutdown league in uae : Sun Apr 26, 2015 4:43 am  

Rugbee League

Re: union tries to shutdown league in uae : Sun Apr 26, 2015 5:49 am  

Wellsy13 wrote:

Got another suggestion?

League.

Re: union tries to shutdown league in uae : Sun Apr 26, 2015 7:19 am  

Isn't Rugby a name, both of a town and a surname, so the minute some chap picked up a ball at a public school (something the Upards and Downards in Derbyshire had been doing for centuries, and others in a great many other towns/villages too for that matter), the name "Rugby" became the personal property of the "Union" (an ironic name given the class it tends to represent).

No, we should challenge it in court in a different manner, we should find a couple of folk with the surname Rugby and sponsor them to challenge the UAE Unions' assertion that only it can decide what can be called Rugby!

Re: union tries to shutdown league in uae : Sun Apr 26, 2015 10:25 am  

Awesomeballs. The extra s is for super.

Re: union tries to shutdown league in uae : Sun Apr 26, 2015 12:26 pm  

M62ball?

Re: union tries to shutdown league in uae : Sun Apr 26, 2015 1:39 pm  

Dr notsostrangelove wrote:

M62ball?

Re: union tries to shutdown league in uae : Sun Apr 26, 2015 1:44 pm  

Dr notsostrangelove wrote:

M62ball?

what part of the M62 goes through the UAE? Which junction do I come off?

Re: union tries to shutdown league in uae : Sun Apr 26, 2015 2:45 pm  

Chris Dalton wrote:

what part of the M62 goes through the UAE? Which junction do I come off?

Never spoil a sh|t story with the facts.