I have no idea what the difference between these two forms of rugby are.
But I know that they are not football, I know this because the beautiful game is played with a round ball, and rugby is played with an egg shaped ball, 'egg-chasing'.
I dislike rugby being called football, from what I can tell, a rugby egg rarely touches the feet anyways, so they got the football bit wrong from the start.
The task of chasing the egg, looks unskilled when compared to the beautiful game, and it does seem that the participants take great pleasure in trying to push their teammates heads into their oppositions backsides.
Why the followers of egg chasing call the beautiful game 'soccer' is a mystery to me, this is an American term, and to my knowledge its not used anywhere else in the world, to follow this logic perhaps rugby should be called American football.
Rugby players are also well paid, and seemingly above the law, yes, they can drink drive, treat females inappropriately, urinate in peoples letter boxes, assault innocent passers by- and still remain role models, It'd be interesting to see how their employment contracts handle this, perhaps its a points system, where they need to commit enough crimes in a season, to earn enough points to be elevated to role model status.
Perhaps my biggest gripe with rugby, is the insistence of the adoption of team names, teams are not named on their location, but rather by completely random names such as the Bush Spatchcocks, Sea Dogs or Mountain Sharks, this is Americanisation at its worst, and manages to be extremely intimidating to anyone new followers of the sport.
Presumably, this is why few people turn up to watch the 'games'.
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