I mentioned earlier this week, I think both codes of rugby are better sports than football at the moment because of all the cheating in footy.
In rugby, the referees don’t stand for any shit, players call them ‘Sir’, cheating is almost always punished, Sin Bins are a great tool, Video Refs are competent, all officials are mic’d up, the clock stops when the ball is dead, and in rugby league the ball is In-play for over 80% of the game most of the time (60% in footy).
Within the teams themselves, even when someone is down and genuinely hurt, the hurt man will have this desperation of ‘I need to fucking get up and play on here, I’m letting my teammates down’ and the rest of his team will be thinking ‘get the fuck up mate, we fucking need you here’.