Miyana: How to understand Rugby?
I just started watching Rugby on my telly. I am American and have watched American Football before but have never seen Rugby. Is it similar to American Football? Could someone please explain the rules too me? If you do watch Rugby, who is your team? Thank you!
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Answer by Slickster
I always find that the best way to learn a new sport is to play it. If you can’t play it, I find that computer games also help
Answer by Jake
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Rugby is played over 80 minutes, which is split into two 40-minute sections. Generally, there is also a 10 minute break for halftime. Each team has 15 players, which each hold various positions within the rugby team. Eight of the players will be considered a forward, similar to linemen and linebackers in a football game. Seven players are positioned as a back, which is just like the backs in a game of football. The duration of the game might be longer depending on how many plays are stopped. A stopped play occurs whenever the ball goes out of bounds while being touches. Once this occurs the ball is tossed in the air as the teams form a lineout, which will give both sides the chance to jump and take possession of the ball.
You can move the ball by carrying it in your hands or you can kick the ball at any point during the play. The ball can not be passed or go forward by the person carrying the ball, but that person is allowed to kick the ball. A “knock on” is the term in rugby used to describe when the ball is being hit or passed in a forward motion by the person carrying the ball. When the “knock on” occurs, it is considered to be a violation and a penalty occurs, which results in the opposition getting a scrum. A scrum is when the number of situations is restarted during the game and involves both teams’ forwards getting together. The forwards will be together at the shoulders over the mark and then they try to get the ball back to their team’s side once the ball is placed in the channel. So this means that each team will have the opportunity to get the ball, so the forwards need to be alert and ready to make a play. If the ball is being kicked during a kickoff then it has to be a drop kick, a drop kick also must occur during the 22 meter drop out.
Answer by STEPHEN
Although rugby is superficially similar to American football they are actually very different games and aren’t really comparable.
Answer by blm
Rugby shares a common root with American football, but the two games have evolved into fundamentally different sports. The skill sets are such that they hardly cross over at all anymore.
Rugby isn’t actually that complicated. Two teams of 15 players try to advance an oval-shaped ball by running with it or kicking it. No forward passes. If the ball is kicked then the kicker or teammates who are “onside” (level with or behind the kicker) teams are allowed to field their own kick – something which isn’t allowed in American football.
You defend by tackling the ball carrier or taking him (or her) “off-their-feet”.
You score by grounding the ball in the opposition “try zone” (like the end zone in American football) or kicking it over and between the “H” shaped uprights on each try line.
There are two fundamental rules which dictate game play. The first is that you must play offense from behind the ball carrier. If you are in a position in front of the carrier you are “offside” and if you interfere with play (or obstruct a defender) you are penalized. Absolutely no American football-style blocking.
The second principle is that players who are off their feet cannot handle the ball. If you are carrying the ball, get tackled and can’t immediately offload to a supporting teammate, you must release (or “plant”) the ball and make it available for another player (on either side) who is on their feet.
Unlike American football, there is no “break” at the tackle — play simply continues as both sides scramble to pick up and play the downed ball. What generally happens in this situation is a “ruck” — effectively a massive shoving match whereby each side tries to push the opposition back and off the ball so that it can be played from behind the ruck. The rules of rucking — which are actually quite strict despite the apparent chaoitic pile of bodies– are such that the offense (IF the ball carrier is supported) has an advantage in retaining the ball. But it is by no means a sure thing. If the runner is isolated or the supporting players are slow in arriving, the defence has a good shot at generating a turnover. As a consequence the ball changes hands a lot more than in American football.
Substitutions are very limited. You dress 22 players to put those 15 on the field. Once a player comes off, he stays off, so at least eight of your starters must be on the pitch for the entire match. This makes rugby a game for the generalist athlete, rather than your NFL-specialist squad type.
These concepts dictate game play for about 90% of the game. The rest of the fiddly details (scrumming, lineouts, mauls, and such) are for special situations — when there is an (accidental) forward pass or knock-on, or if the ball goes out of bounds — and aren’t really necessary to understand the flow of the game.
Answer by Andrew
There is an app called irb laws which should pretty mush explain the game
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