Any rugby fans on here?

[Pete]

If you have any interest in local rugby could you pm me please.

Ta.

[Slacker]

Which code?

[Fly]

7651 usually works for me 

You did mean my Credit Card PIN code didn't you.
Don't tell everybody.

Apparently more people are getting dragged into online scams.
DON'T DO IT PEEPS !!
Your bank will never ask for your code/pin online via email.

Sorry. Totally OT 

[Pete]

>> Which code?

No code - I just wondered if anyone here was interested in local rugby. A local club plays its last game soon and has a new ground up Dunston.

Or are you using us to test out your "don't answer the question" technique?

Bloody politicians... 

[therealjr]

So in answer to his question that would be Union

[Slacker]

>> Which code?

No code - I just wondered if anyone here was interested in local rugby. A local club plays its last game soon and has a new ground up Dunston.

Or are you using us to test out your "don't answer the question" technique?

Bloody politicians... 

Many Rugby Union purists turn their nose up at Rugby League so quite a reasonable question. At one time Union players who crossed the divide were banned for life from returning to the amateur game.

[Pete]

So the difference between Union and League is called the code?

[therealjr]

The code is how the rules under each game are sometimes described namely the 15 man code (union) or the 13 man code (league)

Things have changed in the recent past mainly due to the influence of your friends at Sky but historically Rugby Union was an amateur game played mainly in the south and south west of England wheras League was a professional game played mainly in Yorkshire and Lancashire.  If you played Union and turned professional to play league you were then very much persona non grata as far as union was concerned.
More recently with the advent of Sky paying big money to televise, Union has also turned professional and players regullarly go from Union to league (and occasionally but less often in the other direction). They (Sky) have also turned Rugby League into a summer rather than winter sport.

[Pete]

I read on the DT website today that it was the Chesterfield Panthers - and that they played there for 85 years. Apparently the site is to be become a housing development and the Panthers will be playing at their new home in Dunstone.

Oh, and they forgot to mention which code, but there is a letters page folks can submit to if anyone wants to put them right about it. 

[therealjr]

Thats Union then. It's the rugby ground on Sheffield Road/Tapton View Road which is going to be housing land.