It's mostly a Northern thing and we have 225000 registered players so we should be able to compete with NZ's 22000 players. Although we do have 40,000 more registered Union players than NZ so we should really be able to compete with them in Union too. :shrug:
The rules of Union are straightforward? The basic rules may be simple but a novice has no chance of knowing what is going, for a large part of the game, in Union whereas League rules are dead simple. You could explain them in five mins.