Australian rugby’s ‘code war’ is little more than a Punch and Judy show for public titillation | Angus Fontaine

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Australian rugby’s ‘code war’ is little more than a Punch and Judy show for public titillation | Angus Fontaine
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League and union have been at loggerheads of late but sport is a free market and players have long switched codes

onogamy is a thing of the past. Today’s athletes and fans are in an open marriage. Few Australians pledge undying loyalty to one game, club or colours along old tribal lines. We follow multiple sports and split our loyalties between teams local and global. We flirt and flit between stars of every game as fidelities shift and transfer, changeable as the weather.

Australia hosting the 2027 Rugby World Cup means another major sports circus is coming to town. It translates into lots of money flooding in from sponsors, governments and broadcasters and a billion people watching . For players it’s an opportunity to take their talents and training truly global. This peak in the four-year World Cup cycle is one of the few times rugby union can threaten the NRL and AFL for public interest in Australia. For McLennan, it’s his time to make hay.

In his first stint as Australian coach , Jones lured three NRL guns – Wendell Sailor, Mat Rogers and Lote Tuquiri – to join the Wallabies for the 2003 World Cup at home .

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