No reals stars in RL

[rus]

Doghead's comment about RL on the TRL Site:

I have said this for several years now, the strength of our game is the set of rules we play by, 100 hundred years in the making, the game has been honed and shaped into the finest handling game in world sport, a sport that test some of the worlds finest athletes to the limit in athleticism, skill levels, and bravery.

Players who excel within these rules are a bonus to the game and are rightly idolized by their fans but they are not the real stars, that belongs to the set of rules we call Rugby League.

Discuss.

[georgehotel]

Exactly right. RL has had 112 years of constant evolvement. The strengths of the game are the way its rules and processes have devloped. Soccer has had the same timescale but hasn't taken stuff on board such as video ref.
Union has been in catch up for the last 12 years and have imitated a huge number of RL innovations quickly. How do they go further without taking some RL rules such as a 5 metre gap, less stoppages, etc as we know the spectacle on tv dictates.