Rugby

There have been 6 world cups to date:

South Africa - won 2

Australia - won 2

England - won 1

New Zealand - won 1

Therefore there has been a tie between South Africa and Australia at 2 each.

we will have to wait and see in new zealand next year who will win the next world cup.

Field Dimensions: (144.5 m x 88m)

New Zealander.

Top players £60,000 a year. So a week: £1153.84

Once which was in this years rwc final against france nz won 8 to 7. They should have won by more points but piri weepus kicking was poor on the night. Stephen donald made the winning kick instead.

If you refer to full substitutions then 5 maximum.

If you talk about temporary "blood replacements" - unlimited

Where a key position (front row player) is strategically substituted and that substitute thereafter becomes injured, the original play can be brought back on - This is for safety reasons. If there is no specialist front row player to do this then another player may be used in the front row but scrums become uncontested.

Where a key position (front row player) is "yellow carded" (sin binned) a substitute player may be brought on to take the position for the purpose of scrummaging. However, another play has to leave the field of play so that the headcount remains one short. Again this is done for safety reasons as props and hookers are specially trained in the positions they play.

New Zealand used to be .... South Africa is currently the best in the world. -Currently ranked no 1. in the world -World Champions 1995 and 2007 -Super 14 Champions 2009 -Sevens World Champions 2009 -Currently leading on the Tri-Nations log 2009

Eighty minutes with a ten minute break at half time

I don't know if it's the highest ground in the world but La Paz Rugby Club and URC Cochabamba will play an official rugby game in El Alto ( Bolivia) on the Altiplano at 4070 meters on the 3rd of August 2013.

The first rugby match recorded was in the 1880s and this was orchestrated by a Scotsman called Mr Hooper. However, in 1886 the Russian police clamped down on the game as it was felt by the Zsar that the game was likely to incite riots and demonstration's the period 1908 some games were still being played and in 1923 the first formal game was played in Moscow. In 1934 the Moscow Championship was started, and in 1936 the first Soviet Championship took place.

The game was more or less banned for a number of years in the Soviet Union because of an incident in a final in Moscow, when supporters of Llanelli and a Bucharest team were involved in a braw. In 1949, rugby union was forbidden in the USSR during the "fight against the cosmopolitanism". The competitions were resumed in 1957, and the Soviet Championship in 1966. In 1975 the Soviet national team played their first match.

When the Soviet Union broke up, there were two main consequences - firstly the loss of a much larger pool of players and fans, and secondly, the defection of many players to rugby league, which had previously been frowned on by the Soviet authorities. The two main areas for Russian rugby were to be Moscow and Siberia, and to a lesser extent, Leningrad/St Petersburg.

The most notable Russian player perhaps is Dimitri Mironov who played for the Barbarians several times during the 1980s

The game remains to be a growing force in Russia with many now taking up the game at some very impressive levels

It depends on if the club you play for have banned them.

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Any and all clothing foot-ware and protective equipment is governed by the various bodies . For Union Its the IRB for league its NRL. Look at their site and you will get the official word on what can be worn. It is not necessarily down to the club - they are to follow international guidance.

One of the disadvantages of playing Rugby is that there is almost a 100% chance that you will be injured in a game. Without pads and with the same tackling skills and expectations as American Football, you can imagine what kind of strain your body goes through and along with that, the increase in hospital bills.

As to other disadvantages. I don't necessarily know if everyone would consider it a disadvantage but I do. When you play a Rugby game, your adrenaline is pumping and you start hating the opposite team, they are you enemies and you are to take them out, of course by legally tackling them. However, with your adrenaline pumping as hard as it does, you start to get angry with that other team mate that you are covering and sometimes it leads to a real, illegal, fight.

yes but after the game there is usually great camaraderie

scoring, pitch marking, training, weight and personal dynamics, accountancy, budgeting, marketing - The range of differing mathematical equation's is vast when you look in to the operation of a rugby team. So basically they use measurement, weight/volume, addition, multiplication, division, subtraction, percentages, averages, max/min equations, plus those used in the field of accountancy

== == The 2008 winners were New Zealand, who won 34-20 against Australia at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane Australia on Nov 22, 2008.

IRELAND!!!!

There are 16 Australian Rugby League teams.

There are thinking of introducing 4 more new teams.

There are thousands of rugby league teams throughout Australia. Rugby League is played from school-age level, right up through to the professional level.

Regulations state that a pitch shall not exceed 100 meters goal line to goal line and 70 meters from touch line to touch line. The area on this is 7000 sq meters

Shane Williams broke Wales's all-time try-scoring record on March 15th 2008 with a touchdown against France in the 2008 RBS Six Nations; Prior it was Gareth Thomas (ALF) and the highest scoring forward was Colin Charvis

hard to judge....considering the amount of population england has, most kids play football from an early age as this is more popular. Living in england myself, i find some kids i know often convert to playing rugby after getting tired/bored of football at around secondary school age. still football is played far more by kids at the weekends...

The World Cup is the top prize of International Soccer organization FIFA. South Africa has not won the cup to date.

The Tri-Nations Rugby competition began in 1996 and involves the national teams of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. New Zealand has won the competition 9 times, Australia and South Africa have each won twice. Of the 56 tests played in the competition, New Zealand has won 56, Australia 23 and South Africa 21.

19 February 1881 at Richardson's Field in Blackheath. England

He scored a million goals with the help of James

It's called a try where the ball is placed is grounded with a hand in the opposing in gaol area. A conversion where the try scoring team attempts to kick the ball over the opponents goals cross bar, a penalty goal where an infringement occurs and the team who is award the penalty can kick that ball from a placed kicking position over the opposing cross bar and a drop goal where an attacking player drops the ball to the ground and on hitting the ground is kicked over the opposing teams posts