Rugby

The UK is very famous for the sport rugby, but its not always the most easiest to get game tickets. Provided fixed channels like Sky Sports tends to be a good one. They try to keep the showings even among the matches.

England are the best team as they have won more matches.

Yes, Daniel Carter plays for the New Zealand All Blacks. He is the fly-half. He plays for the Crusaders in the Super 14.

Prop is undoubtedly one of, if not the most important positions on the rugby field, okay maybe i am a bit biased considering i am a prop, but the unseen work is incredible and the work of props cannot be questioned considering the superstar back players wouldn't be able to function without the solid ball presented by the front row ;)

-welshprop17

Rugby League is Australia's second most popular sport.

Rugby Union is played in alot of countries including SA, NZ, England and Europe.

Jonah Lomu even tho he is not playing anymore is worth about NZ11 million dollars

Lote Tuqiri will be offered a $1 million base salary as part of a record-breaking deal to keep him in rugby union until the 2011 World Cup.

1. Darren Lockyer-$1500000

2. Mark Ditman- $1300000

3. Richard Crisp-$ 1250000

4. Greg Inglis- $500000

5. Jarred Hayane - $500000

6. Petero Ciovonceva - $470000

7. Steve Menzies -$400000

8. Karmichael Hunt - $350000

9. Roy Asotasi - $350000

10. Matt Cooper- $320000

11. Cameron Smith- $300000

There are fifteen players on the Rugby Union team.

Scrum defending ball. If an intentional knock on the its a penalty from the point the offence occurred - The exception is a charged down ball where play continues.

If the referee believes that a defending player has deliberately knocked on preventing a try taking plas then a penalty try is awarded under the posts.

Up to 2011, England and Ireland have contested 125 rugby matches:

England have won 71 matches.

Ireland have won 46 matches.

There have been 8 drawn matches.

Arguably the first ever Rugby game was in Rugby school Worcestershire England, when William Webb Ellis picked up the football and ran with it. But the first organised game is between the houses of Rugby school (Houses being their boarding houses) after Webb Ellis and two others wrote a book documenting the rules of Rugby.

The Wigan Warriors Rugby team is located in Wigan, in the Manchester region of England. The Wigan Warriors Rugby team plays at the DW Stadium which is also located in Wigan.

The current Canterbury Netball team is called the Canterbury Tactix

Every sport uses the lactic acid system. Lactic acid is the fluid that builds up in your body after a workout. Build-up of lactic acid isn't harmful, but it is the fluid that makes your body sore/tired after a workout. A good, quality cool down will prevent some of this soreness. Try slow jogging, walking, or stretching after your workout.

Most Unions 8 years onward. However, there are age limitations set and many unions consider it inappropriate to allow contact games unless the player has exceed their 7 birthday. Thr rules of non contact are variable as schools for students from the age of 11 allow contact fully, mini rugby disallows hand offs to the head and neck area, scrums are uncontested, line out do not allow the ball to be thrown over the top but muct land in the boady of the line. Contact is considered the touch rugby as well

Rugby union is a game for two teams of 15 players to play. There are many rules to the game so i suggest you look them up if your interested. the main ones are:

Hold the balls in your hands,

Pass it backwards

During the game you may kick the ball, there are rules conserning this and i can't be bothered to explain.

Tackling, to perform an effective tackle you must wrap your arms around the opposition's legs, just above knee height, and hold on until they fall over. tackling above the hips has it's uses but is more difficult and less effective. You can tackle anyone above shoulder height.

The team

the team consists of 8 forwards and 7 backs.

the forwards are aranged with the two biggest on either side of another reasonably big person. these are called props (either side) and a hooker in the middle (its not what you think)

Then there are two taller than average and well built people behind them these are called the second row.

Then the back row consists of two flankers and one number 8.

the backs are 1 scrum half, 1 fly half, 1 inside centre, 1 outside centre, 2 wings, and 1 full back.

The game it's self is mainly people from either side trying to score trys (5 points) drop goals and penelties (3 points) and conversions (taken after a try is scored 2 points).

This is done by the team with the ball running at the the team without the ball with a number of rucks (where each team compets for the ball on the floor) and mauls (each team trys to get the ball of the other when its off the ground).

im afraid that i cannot answer this question for rugby legue as i don't play it, and don't know much about it.

Salary cap was inducted with the beginning of superleague, so 1996

Children who are around the ages of U12-U13 may use size 4 or 5 balls, but if you are thinking of purchasing one I would recommend a size 5 to help practice. Children from the ages of U10-U11 use 3.

The Barbarian Rugby Club is a British rugby team that has been around since the 1800s. Some of the past famous players include: Cliff Morgan, Andy Irvine, Jack Kyle, Gerald Davies, and Phil Bennett.

There are heaps:

Greg Inglis

Sam Thaiday

David Taylor

Jamal Idris

Ben Hanett

Micheal Waymen

Fui Fui Moi Moi

Season 2007/2008 starts on the 6th of October 2007 and finishes on the 12th of April 2008. The championship playoffs start on the 20th of April and the Grand Final in played on the 18th of May 2008

Each team may continue to play with seven field players. Starting with eleven, that means four of them may be sent off and still continue. Further, substitutes and substituted players may be sent off, but this does not affect the total number of field players. A team may nominate up to seven substitutes to sit on their bench, and the game may lawfully continue if all seven are sent off, for a total of eleven per team, and a grand total of twenty-two.

A soccer match absolutely must be stopped if 23 people have been sent off and shown the red card, with the assumptions listed above.

The fewest red cards that may force a match to be stopped is 5, reducing a single team to six field players.

Note that the referee may terminate or abandon the match at any time, and will most likely do so long before this level is reached. Also, it is possible for the referee to continue showing red cards after the match has been terminated or abandoned. This means that it is technically possible for 36 red cards to be shown before, during, and after a given match.

England has 270,000 and France about 220,000 registered players (The vast majority unprofessional). Ireland, wales and Scotland have far less - I think around 40,000 - 50,000 for Ireland and wales, but only around 30,000 in Scotland. There are around 140,000 in New Zealand, 166,000 in Australia and 430,000 in south Africa. South Africa wins!

Since the world cup in France in 2007 there's been an explosion of registration here in clubs (still all voluntary club registration during off-school time, rugby is almost inexistant at school level in France) ; in 2009 there were 360 000 affiliates, of whom around 300 000 were players , 96% males ; in collective sports ranking, rugby was behind football (soccer) with 2M affiliates, 97% males, basketball, + 400 000 affiliates, 60% males, and handball, 390 000 affiliates, 60 to 70% males.

Rugby is still the second most popular collective sport in France by far behind soccer, of course, but way in front of all others (I mean TV ratings and media coverage).

England has the most but they are counted differently in Anglo-saxon countries and the rest of the world; here it is more or less mandatory in school, there it is learned and played off school in clubs on a purely voluntary basis.

Anyway the winner is England, around 1 million (to take with caution but anyway it is probably the country with the most rugby players in one way or another)

Then it's South Africa (same remarks) with around 400 000, mostly whites

Then it's France (purely voluntary) 230 000

Then it's New Zealand 220 000

Then it's probably Japan somewhere between 150 000 and 200 000

Italy is exploding with new players with something like 90-100 000

John Kirwan declared that there are 90 000 players in Sri Lanka (curious, but why not?)

There are thousands of undeclared players playing informally in the slums of Antananarivo, and around a hundred clubs in the town itself, in Madagascar ; it is a unique country in the sense that the game there is the poor people's one, a unique case in the developing world

They are around 70 000 players in Argentina as well as in Australia, between 60 000 and 70 000 in Ireland as well as in the USA , something like 30 000 in Wales and like 20 000 in Scotland, between 20 000 and 30 000 in Canada.

Georgia didn't even have a proper rugby field until recently despite its international results ; the biggest proportion of rugby players relative to the population (whole!) is in the polynesian countries ; a staggering 5 to 10 per cent in fidji, Samoa, Tonga!!!

Heyneke Meyer is the current coach of the South African rugby team the Springboks. Meyer replaced former coach Peter de Villiers. Meyer was the former coach of the Blue Bells.