Various silly things

[Pigwidgeon]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> My, Simon, you do get around, don't you?

Me?


> BTW, is there a difference between rugby and rugby union?

There are two types of rugby. ugby League and Rugby Union. The former 
has 13 people a team the second has 15. There are also many different 
rules between teh two, but also quite a few similarities.

Rugby League is associated with the working class north and rugby 
union with the public school south. Just over 100 years ago various 
people wanted to make rugby in some way professional as football was. 
This was the owrking class players as this would then offer them a 
way out of their work. The public school south had no such problems 
and wanted to keep the game amatuer. And so the two branches of rugby 
were formed.

In recent years Rugby union has also gone professional and it remains 
to be seen if League will stay around or fold (it is having some 
financial problems at the moment). The above probably contains a few 
inaccuracies, but does capture the gist of what happened.


Simon