Rugby

Gaelic Football and Australian Rules Football are similar in many ways, but also different in many ways. Some of the most obvious differences are as follows: Gaelic Football is played with a round ball whereas Australian Rules Football is played with an oval shaped ball. Gaelic Football is played on a rectangular shaped pitch, whereas Australian Rules Football is played on an oval-shaped pitch. There is no goalkeeper in Australian Rules Football. The scoring system and the structure of the goals are different. Australian Rules footballers are professional, while Gaelic Football is an amateur sport.

Tackling rules are different with Australian Rules Football having higher contact levels.

However, there are also similarities in the games. Look at YouTube features many videos for both games. This set of 3 videos give a good overview of Gaelic Football: http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=iIlsRsMMJUc

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=dpdoJnsDHIY

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ip9dNCuy_k

By definition you need to be of the nationality of the particular country in order to play for its national teams. So, I would expect that there is only one nationality in the Scotland team, Scottish.

The IRB rules state that

The field of play does not exceed 100 metres in length and 70 metres in width. Each in-goal does not exceed 22 metres in length and 70 metres in width.

(2) The length and breadth of the playing area are to be as near as possible to the dimensions indicated. All the areas are rectangular.

(3) The distance from the goal line to the dead ball line should be not less than 10 metres where practicable.

Ireland have not won the Rugby World Cup yet.

When the Ice Hockey world cup was started it was souppse to be every 4 years. The first one Was in 1996, yet there was no tournament held in 2000, then there was one again in 2004, and there was none schedualed for 2008, and the tournament's future is uncertain. During a meeting about a new NHL transfer agreement with the new Kontinential Hockey League, there have been talks of having a World Cup of Hockey in 2012.

There are 22. These are;

1. Field of play

2. The ball

3. Players

4. Clothing

5. Time

6. Match officials

7. Basic play

8. Play on!

9. Points

10. Foul play

11. Offside and onside in general play

12. Knock on or throw forward

13. Kick off and restart kicks

14. Ball grounded - no tackle

15. The tackle

16. The ruck

17. The maul

18. The mark

19. Touch and lineout

20. The scrum

21. Penalty and free kicks

22. In-goal area, grounding

yes in rugby you can drop, throw, kick or pass the ball backwards at any time

No. 9 is the scrumhalf and this is the "quarterback" of rugby. He/She is the go between the forwards and the backs.

IRB Regulations state that a pitch shall be:

No longer than 100 metres from goal line to goal line with an in goal area no longer than 22 metres. The width shall not exceed 70 metres touch line to touch line

I don’t really know

Strangely enough, in Rugby.

Rugby, a town in roughly the centre of England, is home to Rugby School. This is a "public school" which, in the beautifully illogical English way means "private school".

The boys were playing football ( aka soccer ) when one of the boys picked up the ball and ran with it. The idea caught on, and a new game was born.

1009 (February, 12th 2008)

The Six Nations started in 2000. England have been playing in it since then. Prior to that was the Five Nations, which started in 1910 and the Home Nations which started in 1883, both of which England were part of.

The ball is fed in to the "tunnel" by the scum half. It is the job of the loosehead prop (who is on the same side as the scrumhalf putting the ball in) will step forward on the attacking push . Their left foot is employed to stop the ball being pushed back out of the scum. The hooker (no 2) is employed to "hook" the ball with their feet (no hands are allowed in a scrum to touch the ball else is penalty is awarded against the offender) The ball having been hooked is in effect back heeled to the feet of the second row who then will move it with their feet to those of the number 8. This is the ideal scenario. However, it is not unusual for the feet of all the Front Row to be employed in retrieving the ball and for the flankers to channel back to the number 8. The back rows job is to protect the ball and the scrum half and allow the effective delivery to the half backs

It's easy to watch Heineken Cup Rugby online at no cost. WiziWigTV shows the series for free, as does VIPBox, VIPBox has a few versions, original and best version for quality is vipleague.se or vipbox.tv Try one of these sites and enjoy the game!

A player can call a 'mark' if they catch the ball on the full in their own twenty two (if it has been kicked by an opposition player, of course).Tthe opposition must retreat ten metres and the player who caught the ball can kick the ball or tap the ball with their foot to restart play.

67 in total made up of;

>33 club

>19 Full international inc lions etc

>7 Junior World Cup

>8 Under 19

After leaving Wales as head coach he went to be the defensive coach of the Blues in the Super 12. In 2003 he was appointed head coach of the New Zealand team

William Webb Ellis created the game of rugby! He ran into the middle of a soccer gameand picked up the ball and started running with it. This is why the rugby world cup trophy is called the Webb Ellis trophy. This is the myth, anyway. In actual fact, at the time Webb Ellis was at Rugby school, soccer as a recognisable sport did not exist - like many public schools at the time, Rugby played its own "brand" of team ball sport, which changed year-on-year as new boys joined and old ones left. The offence Webb Ellis is actually meant to have committed was not holding the ball, which was allowed by the school rules at the time, but to have run with the ball after making a fair catch (or "mark"), rather than kicking it away. However, even this story was only reported years later by a man who did not witness the event himself, but instead relied on a second-hand source whose identity he refused to reveal.

Tours by and to South Africa were a very sensitive subject in the 1970,80's and 90's due to apartheid. Many players around the world pushed for these tours so that the barriers of apartheid were brought down.

I'm delight to say there has been success here

Australia, new zealand, England, wales, south Africa, Ireland, Fiji , Italy, France, Argentina

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All the above plus USA, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Germany, Geogie,Spain, Romania,Portugal, Ukraine,Moldova, Czech Republic, Belgium,Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia. Malta, Netherlands, Israel, Sebia, Andorra Aemenia, Finland, Denmark, Slovinia,Norway, Luxenburg, Austria, Bulgaria,Hungey,Korea, Arabian Gulf, Hong Kong,Japan,Kazakhstan,Korea,Singapore, Thailand,Srilanka,Thiland,India, Malasya, Chineses Taipei,Pakistan,Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Trinidad and tobago, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Nambia,Tunisia, Cote D'Ivoire, Uganda,Namibia, Kenya, Madagascar, Cameroon, Botswana, Morocco, Swaziland, Nigeria,

For results and to see how these countrys are doing look at the RWC website for the qualifying rounds and scores.

Rugby Union players. They are better publicised on the world stage. They gain more money from sponsorship deals. Rugby Union is a more popular sport so people are more willing to pay to see them.

Henri Laird, who played for England aged 18 years and 134 days in 1927. The youngest in the professional era was James O'Connor, playing for Australia at the age of 18.

This may be so, but as of Saturday 20th March 2010 - this will become Tom Prydie of Wales - making his debut v Italy aged 18yrs and 25days.

A youngster aged 16 years by the name of Steve Arneil played for Northern Rhodesia in 1950 just a year after the Rhodesians beat the All Blacks 10-8!

Not much, compared to other sporting industries. Their average pay is like 150,000 and in AFL is like 250,000.

There are two Centre Referees and one Video Referee who make rulings. The Two Touch Judges each patrol a side line and indicate with a flag when and where the football crosses the sideline and whether a goal is good ie between the posts and above the crossbar or wave it away. For a field goal, it's up to the Centre Referees. The Touch Judges also advise the Centre Referees when players are coming off and new players going on from the interchange bench (maximum of four per team of thirteen) and report any fouls in back play or bleeding requiring the player being sent to the "Blood Bin to be replaced whilst being patched up. The Centre Referees will confer with the Touch Judges regarding a "Try" about onside rules, whether the player was "in touch", if the pass was forward, if the ball was grounded in a downward motion, if there was a double movement, if the defence was taken out, or the attacking kicker taken out BUT the Centre Referee can always go upstairs if unsighted or unsure to the Video Referee who can see all angles, which is then shown on the big screens and the Video Referee can come back with "TRY", "NO TRY" or "REF'S CALL". Tries are the only rulings made by the Video Referee during the match, but footage is used at the Judiciary in relation to offensive play. There is a "Sin Bin" for a ten minute time out without replacement. A player "sent off" does not return, is not replaced, and fronts up to the Judiciary usually pleading "Guilty" to ensure a reduced sentence.