Opinion: If you had two very similar businesses with the synergies of rugby union and rugby league, in the real world the takeover would already have happened |
Over in England, Eddie Jones is praising the NRL's new six-again rule and saying union should adopt similar changes to speed up the game. There is talk of cutting the number of replacements to four and reducing the number of players on the field to thirteen.Once they fix the scrums – which is what everyone, from new RA chairman Hamish McLennan down, wants – they will have a much more entertaining product.It might be time for union and league to come together.
If you had two very similar businesses with the synergies of rugby union and rugby league, in the real world the takeover would already have happened. But what of the cultural differences? Aren't league and union just too…different? At the elite level, these are fabrications of the past. The last Wallabies coach, Michael Cheika, now works for the Sydney Roosters. Eddie Jones, the most innovative union coach in the world, gets all his best ideas from rugby league .
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