What's the worst thing you've seen a player do on a rugby field?
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Eye gouge, some New Zealander did it once, and got suspended for life.
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Here are some basic rules:\n\n1. As you notice, there are no shoulder pads or crash helmets in rugby.\n2. The ball must be pitched backwards to your teammates. No Forward passes like John Elway.\nA team can pitch the ball back and forth to each other as many times as they wish.\n3. THERE IS NO BLOCKING to assist your runner.\n4. Everyone runs with the ball and tackles equally. Unlike American Grid-Iron Football where 2 or 3 guys get all the glory and the rest of the team is never given the opportunity to prove themselves and run for a score, every player on the rugby field will run with the ball and tackle over 20 times a game. If you were an offensive lineman and never ran the ball and never tackled this game is for you! Everyone will be a running back and linebacker. When a set dead-ball scrum is formed, that is when the team will get in their SET POSITIONS, but shortly after that when mass chaos breaks out, all players will run and tackle with the ball.\n5. When you are tackled you have 1 second to let go of the ball and purposely “fumble” the ball. Don’t touch it again until you are up from the pile and standing on your two feet again.\n6. When you TACKLE someone, you can’t pick up the fumbled ball until you are ON YOUR FEET. This is one of the most called penalties on new players. You must be standing up to pick up the ball. You cannot dive on a loose ball.\n7. When you are on defense, and a tackled player is put to the ground, you must make sure you are on YOUR SIDE OF THE “scrumage line” BEFORE you engage in any physical contact with the other team. This is called offside and is one of the most called penalties for all levels of players. This happens when a defensive player is chasing down a runner from behind. The defensive player must run around the ruck pile and enter from the other side to give contact on the ruck pile. This is a very big yardage penalty if you get caught not being on sides on a loose ruck pile.\n8. The game will have 15 players from each team taking the field\n9. When you teammate pitches the ball to you as you are running down the field, and you accidentally drop the ball. THAT IS A PENALTY, it is called a “Knock On”. The other team will get the ball automatically right there for their possession. As you can see, this is the kiss of death when you drop or “Knock On” the ball deep in your own territory by their scoring end zone. This is why we run so many ball-handling drills in practice, to cut down on these penalties.\n10. There are no “Downs” in rugby like football. An offensive team may have the ball for 20 “phases” or “downs” in a row, if they can keep winning the ruck pile and push over the tackled player to win the ball and regain possession. It is very important to always be in “support” and chasing after your ball carrier at all times. When your offensive player is tackled and there is 4 offensive players running right behind the ball carrier, they should no doubt be able to push over the 2 or 3 defensive players that are at the tackle area or the “ruck pile”. On the other side of the coin, if no offensive players are in support and the ball carrier is tackled, the defense will simply just step over the ball and the ball carrier, to pick up the loose ball. The offensive player must “REALEASE” the ball in 1 second. The Defensive team will just pick it up and run the other way if no offensive support is right there. It is VERY IMPORTANT TO BE IN SUPPORT AND HAVE 4 PLAYERS RIGHT BEHIND A BALL CARRIER. (1)You will be there for a pitch-pass. (2) You are there for a ruck over to win the ball.
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Ive played rugby for my college and now that im no longer in college im having withdrawals!! I love rugby it spans oceans overcomes racisim and bigotry....its not life or death....its more important than that!!
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not the right place to look sport.
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He was really bad. Mastroeni should not have gotten a red card for his foul. The guy pulled out cards for every single little thing anyone did. There's a time when refs should give warnings before giving cards. I'm surprised he didn't get his butt kicked after the game, or during the game for that matter. Very bad!!
881619
Don't introduce you kid to such a stupid sport. And not at least to the uncouth Australian team. Their behaviour is the perfect indication of what their convict parents have taught them.
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i sure hope so. the dutch are dirty cheats. they set out early on to injure him with two dirty tackles. they knew he was a main threat so the set out to injure him out the game. the poor was crying as he went off, hes only young.
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There are lawyers that specialise in this subject. This has happened before and players have won such law suits.\n\nAsk around for a specialised lawyer
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The world of Rugby panders to the New Zealish far too much.
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Stefen fleming, Graemme Smith n Ricky ponting\n\n\n\n\nin the list of bad 1s.. inzi and marvan atapattu top the list!
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frankly after reading this i puked.\n\nIf Chinese footballers are considered god to the football world, i"ll switch to rugby
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NO,the worst first ball was bowled by Keith Miller to an English opening batsman[whose name escapes me at the moment] and it passed so far down the Leg side that the Aussie Keeper[Don Tallon} missed it and it went to the boundary for 4 wides and if i remember correctly it was a "No Ball"
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puting the ball threw someones legs
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what has this got to do with rugby
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Really, none of 'em, but if I had to pick one, it would have to be a player that I saw do the most gutless act I've ever seen an athlete do.\n\nIn Game 2 of the 2000 World Series, Mike Piazza hit a ground out that broke his bat. The barrel of the bat bounced near the mound and Roger Clemens picked the piece up and THREW IT at Piazza...fortunately he missed. Additionally he beaned Piazza during the same season...\n\nGreat pitcher? Undoubtably, Gutless human being? Unquestionably
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As a sport basketball...........for the players definitely rugby!!!
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i can just post the same video and told you all it's from another team. it's somewhat common for manager at national team or in the club to instruct their player to dive at tackle. i don't agree either. but  that's the way footbal played. just like injuring some player with hard tackle, it's common also. either we think it's good or not. the team can only be blamed if they have some agreement with the referee of the game. as long as it's not proved, what happen on the pitch is the ref own responsibilities