One of the most basic Rugby rules for dummies is that the game is played between two teams consisting 15 players each in two halves of 40 minutes with an oval shaped ball. Each team is allowed up to a ...

Rugby fans attending this year's home World Cup will be given a dummies' guide to help them better understand the rules of the sport. The complex laws of the game can often baffle fans and detract ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Rugby. Followed categories will be added to My News. 80-minute all-in brawl with a ball involved — plus some very subtle nuances. Played by 15 players in which the ...

Rugby is a 15-a-side sport played by ripped individuals of the athletic variety. It is played on a rectangular 144m x 70m field with H-shaped poles on the opposite ends. Matches are played between two ...

From tonight, pubs across the country will be even busier than usual as sports fans pour in to catch the Rugby World Cup 2015 kick-off. But if you’re considering giving the opening match a miss ...

How many hundreds of thousands of different opinions and versions are out there of what the Springboks need to do to win at home? It is a veritable blizzard of furious opinions and passionate theories ...

What the heck is going on in rugby sevens? “It’s non-stop sprinting,” Canadian winger Sean Duke says. “Lots of end-to-end tries. Turnovers can mean you’re in one area of the field and then ten seconds ...

Richie McCaw lifts up the William Webb Ellis trophy after winning the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. Photo / Photosport The tournament kicks off on Friday 20 September 2019 at 10.45pm, with the hosts ...

If what you`ve been longing for, lo these many years, is the sight of a standoff half heeling to his dummy half, after which a couple of forwards pick the tacklers so that one of their wings can get a ...

80-minute all-in brawl with a ball involved — plus some very subtle nuances. Played by 15 players in which the object is to place the ball on or over your opponent’s goal line (a try) while being ...