Rugby: Brushing up on the game?

LuckyReds

It's been about 12 years since I last played Rugby at school, and although I used to enjoy it.. I never really had a feckin' clue what I was doing. I always enjoy watching the Six Nations and Rugby World Cup, but once again.. I'm often completely confused as to what is actually going on.

This weekend I'm off to see a Rugby match though, and although I'm quite excited, I may need to do some reading/watching this week to brush up on my knowledge. Has anyone got any decent recommendations, either for books, videos or decent websites? I enjoy watching football as I can understand different formations, see how different attributes work in different styles and so on.. but sometimes I watch Rugby and all I can think is "Wow, that big b*stard just totally ran into that slightly bigger b*stard!".

Addickted

Union or that stupid Northern game?

LuckyReds

Addickted said:

Union or that stupid Northern game?

Union.

League seems a whole new layer of completely and utterly bizarre! I can do without trying to understand those weird possession rules..

Leuth

Thirty blokes have a pointless ruckus for 80 minutes and then repair to the bar where they drink one another's vomit out of one another's socks

LuckyReds

Leuth said:

Thirty blokes have a pointless ruckus for 80 minutes and then repair to the bar where they drink one another's vomit out of one another's socks

Pffft.. Says the one who watches Cricket.

The_President

I used to have the same feeling about Rugby League until i worked in Leeds for 2 years and went to watch the Rhinos occassionally. Its a good fast game and requires huge fitness and strength- and you dont have times during the game where 10 mins is wasted whilst they're re-setting the scrum 26 times !

Raith_C_Chattonell

This always used to confuse me - until I googled it.

PENALTY
When a player kicks to touch from a penalty kick anywhere in the playing area, the throw-in is taken where the ball went into touch.

FREE KICK OUTSIDE THE 22
When a free kick awarded outside the 22 goes directly into touch without bouncing, the throw-in is taken in line with where the ball was kicked, .

FREE KICK INSIDE THE 22
When a free kick is awarded inside the 22 and the kick goes directly into touch, the throw-in is where the ball went into touch.

ricky_otto

Leuth said:

Thirty blokes have a pointless ruckus for 80 minutes and then repair to the bar where they drink one another's vomit out of one another's socks

I think you're confusing this with an episode of Geordie Shore.

palarsehater

watch both league can be more entertaining certainly a lot more brutal if you want to see a serious game of rugby league youtube state of origian is a annual series of 3 matches between new south wales and queensland and it gets pretty violent.

bobmunro

Most scrum penalties are technical infringements (even the players are confused at times!!) but the most common in open play are:

- any player ahead of the ball is offside
- a player must be on his feet to play the ball
- when a player is tackled he must release the ball

That covers the vast majority of playing infringements plus dangerous play (high tackles, tacking whilst in the air and so on).