NSW vs QLD

[gouldianpaul]

Natambo.

Great comment...all i can add is AFL is played by men with larger gonads. and more than 3 brain cells

Cheers,
Paul

[Harvey11]

AFL rules,my Dad played AFL for 12 years in Newcastle.

Go the SWANIES

Harv

[Harvey11]

I wasn't far off at 20 - 12 pick the score.

Final score 18-10. Wrong team won.

Bad Luck Canary

harv

[Mickp]

Go Qld, if they win the series I'll buy an origin jumper to wear around town (during daylight).

[venetta]

Oh MadOzzie, thanks for kind of explaining to me.

I don't understand as a Western Australian... All I know is my older brother played Rugby League in state schoolboys, but then he switched to Aussie Rules.
And we used to have the team the Western Reds (League???) and now we have the Western Force (????), and from what I see most nights on the news, they suck..

I've never quite understood the difference between League and Union, as I only ever hear it referred to as "Rugby"...
And I just thought all rugby players had no neck??

I'll just keep watching AFL, cos at least I understand that a bit more

[Tiaris]

snip

. Here is the Queensland Team with the Club origins: Queensland team for 2012 State Of Origin, Game One. For any Victorians who manage to read this far there are two diffent games one is Rugby Union (with 15 players on the field) known as Rugby and the other is Rugby League known as League.

MadOzzie.

Of course we know the difference.... League is played by men without a neck and Union by men without a heart.

Obviously made by someone who has played neither. If you don't have a very sturdy neck & above average heart, you wouldn't last 5 minutes in a Rugby League or Rugby Union game played by grown ups.
I am now well & truly a has been as far as playing any of these but still enjoy watching AFL, NRL & Super Rugby and can appreciate the skills, strengths and strategy required to play each of them well. I regard Rugby League to be the most intense physical contest of any team sport played in Australia. I certainly haven't seen an AFL game even come close to matching the constant intensity and body contact of State of Origin Rugby League. Very few AFL players would make it as NRL players even as backs, & no hope for any of them in the forwards.

[natamambo]

T, you perhaps don't understand / know the history of the game. League was a split from Union in the late 1880s coz the rich clubs in the south of England refused to allow the working class clubs to pay their players lost earnings. The northern clubs rebelled, started their own "League" and changed the game to make it "more interesting" in the hope that people might actually pay to attend the game and that money would be passed on to the players who weren't getting paid to go to work (for the rich southerners no doubt in many cases) while they were entertaining the crowd.

The "no necks", while referring to the build of the modern player, also referred once upon a time to the factory and mine workers, well built and rounded shoulders compared to their wealthy counterparts who easily wore neckties without discomfort and who were mean and tight fisted ie hard no heart.

Of course if you want it to refer to modern players as a way of stirring up interstate rivalry (as perhaps I did ) then feel free to do so.

Oh, and just to make a point, I too watched the last 20 minutes (out of boredom ) and NSW wasn't jibbed, even that knock on which was very badly judged wouldn't have changed the outcome as NSW didn't even look like scoring in that last 1/4 of the game.

Perhaps you'd prefer the definition that League is "a gentleman's game played by thugs", and Union "a thug's game played by gentlemen" - theoretically attributed to George Orwell I believe.

[Tiaris]

I understand the history of Rugby League alright & in fact Australian Rugby League had a similar but entirely separate beginnings to the UK origins of the game. Early Australian Rugby League was formed by disgruntled RU players seeking payment from the sport which took them away from paid work whilst injured, etc. brought about by RU officials' refusal to compensate for same.

I don't buy into the interstate rivalry at all. I love SOO RL simply because it is a great spectacle of the best body contact team sport I know of. I am a NSW resident who is happy to support Queensland as long as they have my favourite players playing for them who play with admirable skill, intensity and attitude. I enjoy watching a good contest & really don't care who wins as long as the game is a genuine contest which it usually is.