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\u201cIt really works well; I like the concept,\u201d Burgess told the <\/a>SMH<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s quite exciting for the game. I\u2019ve played both and I know the crossover between the two.<\/p>\n \u201cAt a high level, I believe there could be an appetite for a cross-code game. An international style game played under hybrid rules.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not just necessarily Australian and UK fans; places like South Africa could show a lot of interest in this concept.<\/p>\n \u201cWe could see the Kangaroos versus the Wallabies; you could do Australia v Australia \u2013 people would want to see that.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s worldwide, and you see all sorts of formats breaking off. I think we will see a game in the next year or two at that (international) level.\u201d<\/p>\n Hybrid Rugby Game between Barker College and St Gregorys College, Oct 2025. Picture Thomas LissonSource: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n Hybrid Rugby are dreaming big. Among their plans to expand the product, they have pitched a proposal worth $3 million to stage an international in England later this year according to the SMH. <\/p>\n Last October, two Sydney high schools in Barker College and St Gregory\u2019s College faced off in a hybrid match. <\/p>\n The rules of Hybrid Rugby have been designed so that players from either sport aren\u2019t disadvantaged.<\/p>\n Essentially, league rules are used when a team is in it\u2019s own half but when in the attacking half, it switches to rugby union laws. A 60 second shot clock is utilised, meaning teams only have a minute before they have to score or dispose of the ball after they cross halfway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Burgess has thrown his support behind Hybrid Rugby, with the Rabbitohs legend jumping on as an investor.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[6074,64,63,215760,1208,2057,763,2105,215759,5098,215762,761,762,10917,3583,158,215758,16205,43455,1183,18780,85,215761,3586,119651],"class_list":["post-407060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-africa","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barker-college","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-fox-league","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-international-style-game","tag-ivan-cleary","tag-league-union-crossover","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nick-faldo","tag-northern-europe","tag-nrl","tag-rugby-union-rugby-league","tag-rule-changes","tag-sam-burgess","tag-south-africa","tag-southern-africa","tag-sports","tag-union-rugby-league-crossover","tag-united-kingdom","tag-warrington-wolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}