G'day Brett,

" I know there is a difference between our football and rugby ... "
Well ... it isn't quite that simple round here - for starters "Rugby" is part of the name of both "Rugby Union" (which is having its World Cup) and "Rugby League", which is the dominant local religion)! To outsiders, they look pretty similar ... like the way Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism (Episcopalism to you ... ?) look similar ... but there is far less tolerance!

I like the English explanation, of a few years back, that said:

"Rugby Union is a thug's game, played by gentlemen ... and Rugby League is a gentleman's game, played by thugs".

Regards,

Bob Bolton (football atheist)