Rugby

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

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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.

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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

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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.

Wales have never won the European Football Championships.

There are many teams of veteran rugby players, who recently competed in a tournament in Madeira which goes to show that rugby goes on past the thirty year age group. Personally I play for a team in Porto Portugal who field players upto the age of 50+ and i myself am 59 years and still a keen player playing whem time permits every Saturday throughout the year. I train every day to keep fit and from this feel a wonderful sense of wellbeing. As of July 15 2008, the oldest rugby player still playing is a 90 year old Japanese man named Sadayoshi Morita.

The RFU had been formed in 1871 by representatives of 21 clubs - all of which were located in southern England and most were within London. By the early 1890's rugby was widespread and well over half the RFU's clubs were in northern England. The working classes of the north of England and South Wales were particularly taken with rugby over soccer.

As with rugby clubs right across England, the majority of the clubs of the North were created and operated by men of the ruling classes. However, as the majority of the population in Yorkshire and Lancashire was working class, the clubs, teams and crowds quickly displayed a cross-class nature. Hull FC was formed in 1865 by a young gentlemen who had been at Rugby School and immediately took on members who were plumbers and glaziers. An ever rarer example was Leeds Athletic which was started by working men on their own initiative. It began with an advertisement in a local newspaper placed by a rail clerk.

Other clubs had religious affiliations at the start which are now long forgotten, but others such as Wakefield Trinity were marked by this for the rest of their existence. Wakefield was formed in 1873 as a sporting arm of the Holy Trinity Church Young Men's Society.

In Lancashire, rugby was started at Rochdale in 1867 by a magistrate and numerous business owners and self-employed men. Within a year they were all playing alongside new members when working class men were allowed to join as well. This club was the forerunner of the Rochdale Hornets who arrived in 1871 with an open door approach to membership. At Rochdale they were also able to insist on gate money as they played on an enclosed field. This became an increasing tendency in the North. Some clubs though, like Wigan, did not have an enclosed field and had to rely on crowd donations from collection boxes.

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Throughout the game either one side or the other has possession of the ball. At the end of the game the referee calls "no side" to indicate that neither side has possession of the ball thereafter.

The game of football (soccer) was originally a mix of rugby and soccer as we know today. However, in 1870 ther was a move to formalise the game which then was called football. The rules of the game allowed the ball to be handled and carried to the rear of the ball carrier to pass but the events of web elllis running forward carrying the ball (which really wasnt in the rules) became the new way of playing. Added to this "hacking" (the kicking of the legs from beneath the ball carrier) was also allow. In the new step up handling and hacking became against the rules and teh Football Association was created - Supportes of te ball carrying game split and formed the Rugby football union. The game of American football can be traced (in the same line as rugby and football/soccer) back to Atherstone Shrovetide Game, dating back to 1199 and the Eton Wall Game All of which were UK based. The games were in basic a rough free for all where teams were not equal and frequently had 100 people on the field of play.

Wales were the winners of the 2008 Six Nations Championship. They were unbeaten in all their matches, so they achieved a 'Grand Slam'.