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In response to "It's fun to watch, we've got a local Rugby League team we've gone to see a couple of times." by znufrii, dad.

Then there's Australian Rules which is also different and the oldest of the three. -- nm

Posted by Krusty (aka Krustylu) Aug 10 '16, 07:27

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*makes hand-wavy motion*. Rugby was invented first, but later split into the union and league variants - Roger More Aug 10, 07:41 3
- I could have sworn that I read yesterday that Australian Rules was the oldest but *shrug* -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 07:43
- And "Union" is really just the original version that they had to give a name to later to differentiate it, right? -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 07:42 1
  - Yes. It was a split between the gentlemanly amateurs (union) and the working-class teams which went proferssional -- nm - Roger More Aug 10, 07:44

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