If animals played RL, which positions would they be in?

[The Hallucinating Goose]

I saw a similar question on Facebook asking if animals played football so thought we'd do our version.

So, if animals played RL, which species would play which positions? 🐿

[Eddie]

This is niche!  I’d have a Cheetah on the wing and a Leopard at centre though. 

[up the robins]

One of my props would be a silver back gorilla, can you imagine the offloads.

[Gerrumonside ref]

You’d want the Elephant, Rhino and Hippo as front row in your pack. Probably Lion, Tiger, Buffalo as second rowers.  Maybe Gorilla at hooker.

Can’t decide whether I want Chimpanzee and those monkeys from Gibraltar that nick people’s sunglasses to mix things up in the halves.

Cheetah and Greyhound on the wings.  Centres and Loose Forward I’m not sure about but Flipper the Dolphin at fullback to jump and diffuse the high ball.

Coach: Dr Doolittle

Trainer:  Geoff Nutkins 

Stadium Announcer: David Attenborough 

 

[Moe syszlak]

Hippo as a bullocking second rower. Hyena as a cheeky scrum half.

Edited March 20 by Moe syszlak

[RBKnight]

Think you'd have to select a more web-footed side to cope with away games at Rochdale, Oldham and Fax......

[Eddie]

I’d want to fit a honey badger in somewhere. 

[Taffy Tiger]

Alan Price in halves with Eric Burdon , Chas Chandler and Mick Gallagher props,Danny McCulloch second row , John Wedier on the wing , Vic Briggs in the centre , and Andy Summers hooker

[daz39]

47 minutes ago, Eddie said:

This is niche!  I’d have a Cheetah on the wing and a Leopard at centre though. 

Hardaker and Charnley then just swapped?

[CanaBull]

Amazed this has been up for an hour and donkeys at the RFL haven’t been brought up. 

[daz39]

Got to have a Mouse at dummy half/hooker to catch out those retreating big guys in the middles - Elephants, Rhinos and Hippos.

A Salmon at full back to leap over the opposition on the kick return, with Greyhounds on the wings to outpace the cover, unless the opposition put a Hare in there to negate them.

A big python at 6 to weave his way through a tired defensive line

With a cheeky little Chimpanzee at scrum half.

And a  Sea lion at Loose as he's a good ball player!

 

[RS50]

A giraffe at full back to catch the high ball.

[Simon Hall]

5 minutes ago, RS50 said:

A giraffe at full back to catch the high ball.

They don't have any hands.

[OriginalMrC]

Definitely a rat at hooker

[The Hallucinating Goose]

1 hour ago, Gerrumonside ref said:

You’d want the Elephant, Rhino and Hippo as front row in your pack. Probably Lion, Tiger, Buffalo as second rowers.  Maybe Gorilla at hooker.

Can’t decide whether I want Chimpanzee and those monkeys from Gibraltar that nick people’s sunglasses to mix things up in the halves.

Cheetah and Greyhound on the wings.  Centres and Loose Forward I’m not sure about but Flipper the Dolphin at fullback to jump and diffuse the high ball.

Coach: Dr Doolittle

Trainer:  Geoff Nutkins 

Stadium Announcer: David Attenborough 

 

The Barbary Macaques are the Gibraltarians. They'd certainly be good at stealing the ball!

Edited March 20 by The Hallucinating Goose

[The Hallucinating Goose]

30 minutes ago, CanaBull said:

Amazed this has been up for an hour and donkeys at the RFL haven’t been brought up. 

I can't believe no one has suggested geese. *shrugs wings* 

[RBKnight]

1 hour ago, RBKnight said:

Think you'd have to select a more web-footed side to cope with away games at Rochdale, Oldham and Fax......

@The Hallucinating Goose ahem.....

[up the robins]

Have a sloth as the video ref.

[hunsletgreenandgold]

57 minutes ago, Eddie said:

I’d want to fit a honey badger in somewhere. 

9 - literally Micky Mac

[hunsletgreenandgold]

16 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I can't believe no one has suggested geese. *shrugs wings* 

The 'step' really your idea? 

[CanaBull]

Prop: Gorilla. 
Hooker: Honey badger. 
Prop: Rhino. 
2nd row: Lion. 
2nd row: Leopard. 
Loose: Tiger. 
SH: Wolverine.  
SO: Chimpanzee. 
Centre: Timberwolf. 
Centre: Wildebeest. 
Wing: Ostrich. 
Wing: Lurcher.  
FB: Meerkat.

Interchange. 
Hippo.  
Grizzly Bear. 
Cougar. 
Badger. 
 

[LeytherRob]

47 minutes ago, Simon Hall said:

They don't have any hands.

Yeah this is the pretty much dealbreaker for playing rugby. Unlike football where you have plenty options for heading or kicking, RL is pretty much limited to the animals with opposable thumbs. Gorillas in the middle, then chimps and gibbons with maybe some of the quicker species of monkeys out wide

[daz39]

23 minutes ago, up the robins said:

Have a sloth as the video ref.

Not another?

[CanaBull]

46 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I can't believe no one has suggested geese. *shrugs wings* 

To be fair (having been on the receiving end of your Canadian cousins ) a pack of geese would smash one tackle then fly off honking like they’d won the whole game!

[RBKnight]

1 minute ago, CanaBull said:

To be fair (having been on the receiving end of your Canadian cousins ) a pack of geese would smash one tackle then fly off honking like they’d won the whole game!

Noisy b$ggers too - refereeing them would be a right pain, like a whole team of Aidan Sezers