Rugby

UNDER 9 & UNDER 10 MINI RUGBY

This Section contains the rules of play, regulations and recommendations (including modifications to the IRB Laws of the Game) which apply to players in the Under 9 and Under 10 age grades. as you have not specified the age range you specifically interested in.

RULES OF PLAY

The object of the game is to score a try (5 points). A penalty try will be awarded if a try

would probably have been scored but for foul play by the defending team.

The game is played between teams having a maximum of nine players, three of whom will be forwards and form the scrum, with the remaining players forming the back line. Positions should be interchangeable and coaches are encouraged to rotate players around the positions so they all get experience in different roles. Each side can have an agreed number of substitutes. Substituted players can be re-used at any time.

Substitutions may only take place when the ball is 'dead' or at half time and always with the referee's knowledge.

STARTS:

The match is started or restarted from the centre of the field or after a penalty with a free pass. The starter's team must be behind the ball (i.e. nearer their own try line than the starter). Before the pass is taken, the opposing team must be 7 metres away, nearer their own goal-line. On penalty restarts, a quickly taken free pass whilst the opponents are retiring is not permitted. If the place for the free pass is given within 7 metres of the goalline,the free pass is to be taken at or behind the mark on a line through the mark at least 7 metres from the goal-line.

At the free pass, the ball is held in two hands, off the ground and is passed through the air to a team member. The referee is to ensure that the opposition are 7 metres back before indicating that play is to commence. The receiver of the free pass must start from a line which is no more than 2 metres behind the passer. The passer must not run with the ball or dummy pass. Normal play resumes as the ball leaves the hand of the passer.

Following an infringement for:

(1) offside;

(2) high or late tackle;

(3) hand off/fend off (a hand off being the placing of an open palmed hand by the ball carrier against an opponent's face or body while a fend off is an outstretched arm by the ball carrier towards an opponent to discourage that person making a tackle);

(4) kicking (including fly-hacking ie kicking a loose ball on the ground); or

(5) obstruction;

Rugby league is the professional code of rugby football, and Rugby is a town in Warwickshire. with a famous public school where the game developed.

The main differences between rugby league football and rugby union football is that the principal rugby league teams are professional athletes instead of amateurs (albeit rugby union has some semi-professionals). The focus is more on running with the ball and scoring tries, instead of set pieces and kicking.

There is almost no kicking in rugby league. You only have 5 tackles of passing and then you must kick over to other time. In rugby union you can kick to the corners downfield and you can have as many phases as you like when controlling the ball. There is a lot more kicking in the union game. League is really just passing.

In league a try is 4 point while unions try is 5

Many players now wear scrum caps to protect the ears and head. Taping of the ears is questionable. However, apply Vaseline to the out area of the ear and place a soft cause or cotton-wool over the ear. Ally the tape around the head, players usually use a medical stretch adhesive tape for this - The padding will stop the rubbing of the ear and will stop the tape sticking to the ear itself - Also seek medical advice as well as there are problems encountered with ear damage by many players

A bye in sports is the position of a participant in a tournament who advances to the next round without playing

This information is taken form http://www.chacha.com/question/what-does-bye-stand-for

The length of a women's rugby game is exactly the same as mens (two halfs of 40 minutes separated by a 10 minute half-time).

The length of a women's rugby game is exactly the same as mens (two halfs of 40 minutes separated by a 10 minute half-time).

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So you can run fast and not be tackled. It is also helpful when attempting to tackle others and in order to get to rucks and mauls.

It's really all to do with where you want to go and how fast you want to go there. Agility is nothing without vision of the game. You want to practice such skills in a game of touch rugby for example before heading for the big game.

From the research I've done, there is no definitive date as to when the first Footballer was paid. Best answer was Footballers started collecting money for playing sometime in the 1870's. Players would often switch from team to team enticed by higher wage offers or a one time fee for them to play on Cup bound teams. The Professional Footballers Association came along in 1907 and set up a structured wage for the players, so this could be considered their first "Regular Pay".

No its not allowed at this time under IRB rules. However, tattoos are allowed

Union

30 players (15 on the pitch for each team at a time)

plus

2 linesmen (referees assistants)

1 referee

There are a maximum of 5 substitutes for each team

Rugby used to be an Olympic sport, and featured at the 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924 games. It was then dropped. This probably had something to do with the head of the International Olympic Committee stepping down in 1925- Pierre de Coubertin had been huegly influential in having rugby included to start with.

No sport can be added to the Olympics unless another sport is dropped. The IRB was confident that its proposal to have sevens included in the 2012 Olympics would be successful. Sevens was one of five sports proposed, but of the five only two (squash and karate) were successful.

You use a rugby ball to play rugby. It is shaped like an egg.

A yellow card is a 10 minute "sin bin" offence and the receiving player must leave the field for that time -- a second yellow card t the same player means that a red card is immediately shown and the player is sent of for the remainder of the game with no substitution

Rugby actually preceded games which use some of the principles such as American football Gaelic football.

There are two related types of Rugby. Rugby League and Rugby Union.

Because they had wing forward now called flankers and then had to distinguish the backs by calling them wing three quarters as the were in the three quarter position i..e Scrum half and Outside haf are called "Half Backs" and the full back is "full back" the centres were classed as three quarter back.

FRANCE, IRELAND, ENGLAND, SCOTLAND. WALES, ITALY, PORTUGAL, SPAIN, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, NETHERLANDS, LITHUANIA, POLAND, BELGIUM, MOLDOVA, CROATIA, SWEDEN, LATVIA, SWITZERLAND, SERBIA, SLOVENIA, HUNGARY, DENMARK, NORWAY,

AUSTRIA, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, BULGARIA, LUXEMBOURG, FINLAND, ROMANIA, GEORGIA

Are all registered with the IRB

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In rugby, during the 6 Nations, an England v Ireland match is always played for the Millennium Trophy. Depending on the circumstances, they could be playing for the Triple Crown or the Six Nations Championship itself. If they were to meet in the World Cup, they could be playing for the Webb Ellis Trophy.

15 on each team. Equalling 30 on the field. Plus subs, a full squad = 22.

probably around 50 000 000 in the whole of rugby, but in a single team, 15 players.
There may be only 15 players perside on the field of play as a maximum at anyone time in the union code

It cost 60,000,000 NZ Dollars of combined private and Government funding

They play both. Its dependant on the location and the type of club in their locality but both codes run excellent mini and youth programme

Whilst the concept was started in Rugby School Warwickshire, England in 1823 by Webb Ellis creation of rugby proper came in late 1870, when the Secretary of Richmond FC proposed a meeting to codify a separate set of rules for the Rugby clubs. This took place shortly after on January 26th 1871. So up to 2011 its been formally a game for 140 years. Prior to this it was actually football (the predecessor of Association Football or Soccer)

yes rugby league is played in and around the city of cape town. it is also played at junior level, from under 9 years old, it is open to all the communities and schools in the cape, incidently cape town are undefeated at senior level by any south African opposition, and have only ever been beaten on one occasion, by north sydney bears in 1993 by a score of 48 pts to 6. the game there, is run entirely on a self supporting and autonomous basis, and has, for unknown reasons, been completey ignored by the UK Australian and other world rugby league governing bodies, who refuse to recognise cape town RL, the provincial side are known as the cape cobras, and over the years have produced jamie bloem, Jacob steemag, bradley green, and marius swartz. they are coached by yorkshireman 'big' martin Birmingham and have been since 1991, Birmingham is also the regional development officer, the potential of RL in the cape is considered to be massive by even the SARU.