Often it resulted in a dashing winger haring away for a try in the corner.

With the defensive structures that have come into play in more recent times both rugby codes, the overlap isn’t quite what it used to be.

Nowadays it’s sports themselves that overlap.

We’re in that time of the year when summer (what summer?) and winter sports (if they still exist in that clearly defined way, specifically at the elite level when they seem to play all year round or near enough) begin to intrude on each other’s territory.

For instance, take cricket and rugby league.

Those of us who follow both sports are torn between watching one or the other, maybe both.

It’s times like this that television executives who receive the big bucks have to earn their keep.

The wisdom of Solomon springs to mind.

If they put the cricket on live on their main channel, the footy fans will crack up. And vice-versa.

Never mind if one is shown on a support channel. It’s prestige and bragging rights that count. Mine’s bigger than yours kind of thing.

The network heavies now have three forms of cricket to spread out over the summer and that becomes a bit of a jigsaw puzzle.

And the NRL, AFL and Super Rugby seasons continue to encroach into the summer sporting schedule.

Of course there is the A-League and NBL (weren’t the Hawks fantastic last Saturday night against reigning champions and competition leaders New Zealand Breakers - Oscar Forman, awesome).

With the way the weather is, how good is it that basketball is an indoor sport compared to outdoor games in the rain.

What’s that saying courtesy of those magnificent and insightful commentators Rampaging Roy and HG? ‘‘When too much sport’s never enough.’’

Right on.

There is so much sport on but for now let’s look at the upcoming rugby league season, more specifically the Charity Shield between St George Illawarra and South Sydney and the World Club Challenge featuring NRL premiers Manly and Super League champions Leeds this weekend.