Sports   (Talk about balls here.)

As already stated on here, the "chaps" who run the media (as well as most other things in this country,and the country itself actually) all went to certain schools/universities were "rugger" was the game(union).As for the Wigan/Bath games in the mid Nineties it opened up Unions eyes.

What was abundantly obvious for a start was the difference in fitness levels of the respective sides. Second were the lines of running and defensive organisation, both of which come from the coaching that League players receive from a very early point in their education.And this has been the major area where Union has learned from its cousin.

The number of League coaches moving over may not be the same as the number of the players, but their influence has been much greater. Phil Larder and Shaun Edwards are probably the highest profile of these, but Joe Lydon, Mike Griffiths, Mike Ford, even Daryl Powell, are among those who have crossed the divide to earn their corn.