American Reacts to Rugby for the First Time - Brutal Rugby Red Cards
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- In this video I react to rugby for the first time. I wasn't sure what to expect but the red cards in this video are brutal. I really enjoyed this and I think the sport of rugby could be a lot of fun to watch.
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One of the biggest differences between Rugby and Football; you will never see a rugby player argue with a referee
Too true. and half the time the players tower over the ref, but they all know when they set foot in the stadium that refs word is law, shame other sports like AmerFootball or normal football don't follow suit....
Red card is sent off
Check out what Lee Evans has to say about Rugby. Lol xxx
once heard this " Football (soccer) is a gentleman's game played by thugs and Rugby is a thugs game played by Gentlemen
You will once and then their career is over!
In Rugby you can only tackle your opponent from below the shoulder line down.
Contact between the neck and head is called as dangerous play.
I'm glad that this video calls out that these are examples of dangerous play; there are a number of videos of "big hits" or similar that have multiple high-tackles and portray them as just part of the game.
I didn't know that, thank you for sharing. ❤
Watching Americans react to rugby is the cleanest best pleasure.
I genuinely prefer Rugby over American Football, but you'll have to tie me to a chair to get me to watch soccer, and I will kick and scream the whole time, absolutely hate it lol
Random to catch a predator reference
@@robertsmith4681*Football.
@@dukedex5043 It's a question!
@@101steel4*American Football. Also known as rugby for babies.
You cannot tackle a player above his shoulders, tackle him when he is in the air or put him down on his neck if you lifted him from the ground in a tackle. Contact with the head is now an automatic card (yellow for "low risk contact" = 10 minutes out of the game and your team down one player, and red for "high risk contact" = ejected for the remaining time of the game and your team down one player).
A Red card (sent off) is the equivalent of getting ejected in NFL. However there is one other very big difference if you are sent off you cannot be replaced so it becomes 15 against 14. Depending on when this happens your team could be a man short for a few minutes or in some cases most of the game.
Hang on, so if an American Football player is sent off for breaking the rules, the team itself can replace him and not be penalised in numbers?
@@chrisgibb5190 that's right you only lose one player out of the squad but they are replaced so it's always 11 v 11 with a rest between possession and unlimited substitutions.
So what is the point really. How is the team as a whole punished if they can just replace the player. The red card means the whole team is punished for the one player.
@@robprosper5769 exactly just what is the point? Potentially you could take out the other sides start player with one of your worst players and the side that suffers is your opponent.
Two branches of Rugby...Union and League. Union is the bigger branch. If you want to see the best, check out Jonah Lomu...New Zealand legend. Respected by fans of the game worldwide, even opposing fans.
Proud English fan here even tho he literally ran over England single handed i have total respect for Jonah Lomu a genuine Legend.🤘🤘
RIP
Skill is skill and he was the most skillful
Most definitely. He was my most favourite player. May he rest in peace
The difference between rugby and american football is that they have to play non stop for 80mins. A recent superbowl, which lasted 3hrs only has 11mins of play. Don't forget they don't wear armour. League is the harder game, but notice how they all obey the ref and do not argue about the decision
American football is so _boring_ 😪💤
you need to see Jonah Lomu who sadly passed away 18 November 2015, an amazing player the New Zealand All Blacks was an amazing player also check out the All black haka at the start of every game amazing
Being Welsh I grew up playing rugby as it's our national sport, but I spent most of that time consciously avoiding injury as I was also a track runner, I was small and fast so played Scrum Half but my coach would always say whatever you do don't get tackled, if in doubt throw the ball anywhere and just get out of the way, a big part of playing scrum half is staying away from body contact as much as possible, you leave it to the big guys to kick the crap out of each other.
Same here, moved here in '99, instantly called into the school rugby team despite only ever having played cricket in England, I was like a deer in the headlights trying to get out of the way of the 'rugby lads' (stereotypical beefy lads)
@@coot1925 I got absolutely clattered and broke a collarbone, I was lucky lol
@@coot1925 it was while I was in school they banned British Bulldog being played, that was how the shool coach decided to bring me into the rugby team, I just sort of jumped over them as they charged in lol then eveerything got all health and safety concious, let em live and learn on the pplayground I say
@@rogu3rooster Teachers went livid when me and my mates invented piggyback bulldog lol
@@AndrewwarrenAndrew We called that bumperkids but we played it on pavement rather than grass just to take the piss
There’s an interesting saying about the 2 games, “Rugby is a game for ruffians played by gentlemen, football is a game for gentlemen played by ruffians”!!
A minor infringement of the rules can result in either a free-kick or a penalty (depending on the nature of the infraction)
A more serious offence will additionally result in a Yellow Card (i.e. a warning). In Rugby union, this will also result in the player responsible being sent to the "sin bin" for ten minutes.
The most serious offences, particularly those that constitute dangerous play, will result in a red card, where the player is sent off for the remainder of the match.
Examples, as shown in many of these clips, can be tackling the opposition player in the air (this is potentially very unsafe), tackles above the shoulder, the "spear" tackle, where the opponent hits the ground head first, shoulder charges (you must make a valid attempt to use your arms in the tackle), recklessly late tackles, violent conduct, deliberate foul play and many more.
England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy make up the Six Nations Championships every spring.....just wonderful to watch, all play each team over coupld of months......on BBC do great coverage.
Generally in both codes, you can pass by hand lateral or back, only kick forward and tackles must contain an attempt to wrap arms around . The game doesnt stop like Gridiron when tackled, when tackled you must release the ball and the game continues. kinda a simple guide Steve
My family are rugby union fanatics. I played (poorly) at school, each of my five sons played - and two still do. 12 of my grandsons play, either in BC, Kenya, or Queensland (the other four being too young). It is said that rugby is the ruffians' game played by gentlemen, whereas football is the gentlemen's game played by ruffians! 😂
I always say that phrase,but slightly different.
I normally say "thug" instead of ruffian
Thug also applies to a lot of Football fans as well, where as you rarely see Rugby fans scrapping after a game, normally we all celebrate together, win or loss, and have a few beers while discussing the game 🤷
Prime example of a yellow carded player is at 11:02 there is a yellow box under 1 of the teams with a timer. That means they have a player in the "sin bin", so hes been given a 10minute time out leaving his team with 14 players for those 10minutes.
I would recommend the Japan v South Africa 2015 World Cup Match that one shook the world of rugby. Also I would highly recommend the England v Scotland 2019 6 Nations Match which is still one of my all time favourite International matches ever. I would suggest you watch the Rugby World Cup in September, but, as Team USA failed to qualify you might not get much coverage in the states.
Enjoying all your research into your historical roots. Keep it up.
England have a good rugby team
Well sometimes we do, sometimes they just want to throw dwarves in a pub.😉
*angry Welsh noises*
Rugby is a real man's game. US football players wear more protection than my sofa has stuffing!
My Nephew had the centre f his face caved in by a rogue tackle and almost every bone in his face was broken. It took 8 hours to reconstruct his face which is now held in place with titanium plates and screws. He has to undergo more surgeries to fix his face
There’s a great video called Rugby for American Football Fans by Sports Explained, highly recommend it! Probably the best video explanation out there. He did a great Cricket for Baseball Fans too, probably the best explanation of cricket out there too.
I grew up playing Rugby at the equivalent of middle and high school
this is most certainly not "a version of american football", you have that 100% the wrong way round.
you should react to nigel owens, one of the best ref's ever, it will also give you an understanding, because he explains things to players, while he gave a free kick or penalty. he was also so well respected, by players from all over the world, you could start with this one, there are many, Nigel is also Gay, true legend of the sport
10 More Minutes of Nigel Owens being Nigel Owens
Love your reaction. Having lived all my life, literally round the corner from Canterbury Cathedral, it's easy to get blasé about the beauty around us and how lucky we are to live in such a place....
Btw, when you consider which rugby union video to watch next, I suggest one featuring the recently retired international rugby referee, Nigel Owens. This video encapsulates the spirit and sportmanship of the game, so different from professional football. ❤
I was going to comment the same but I couldn't remember the Welsh guys name
Best referee Rugby has ever had, a genuine GOAT.
100%
Agreed, @T.A.K. Palfrey, especially with him being openly gay and him criticising a line-out during one of the matches that he was refereeing by taking the pi$$ out of himself and saying, "....I'm straighter than that line-out. " - pure class and so typical of him, isn't it? The funniest part about him is that he's so tiny in comparison to the vast majority of rugby players and yer they all respected him and knew better than to contest any of the decisions that he ever made while he was refereeing any matches, didn't they? A truly great and funny man.
Good suggestion, but it would be smarter to watch the rules being explained beforehand.
There are plenty of strange British sports on RUclips, here's just a few of them, you should have look at the Haxey Hood, the whole village of Haxey get involved.
There are also Conker championships, and Worm charming championships, Bog snorkeling, the Wife Carrying Championship, and Coal Carrying championship.
Steve, Rugby according to legend started when a player called William Webb Ellis during a football match ( soccer match) decided to pickup the ball and carry it to the goal line and shoved anyone who tried to stop him to the ground. Obviously he was penalised for his actions but the seed of the game had been planted. This took place at a game of football (soccer)at a British Public School ( fee paying private school) in the town of RUGBY, so as other games were played the game came to be called Rugby Football (or football played by the rules that were applied at Rugby school). Later the game was split between two codes known as Rugby Football (Union) and Rugby League (League). Basically the union game was played as an amateur game without payment and was known as a game played between teams of gentlemen, whereas the league games were played by the general public who because they were working class people in the main , would probably if injured during a game have to take time off work and possibly lose their jobs and without a welfare state they would not be bringing any money into the house, so people would pay to see their games and the entry fees at first went to any players who were injured and unable to work. Eventually all of these players (as opposed to the amateur gentlemen) started wanting to be paid for their efforts and they became professional players on regular wages, in return for attending training days several times a week and playing a match on a regular basis. The two codes play with slightly different rules and numbers of players on each team and the rules tend to be changed to a small amount each season. Most people are taught the game at school or at club level and they are taught the union rules. Then people learn to support their local teams and follow the rules applied to their team. Both codes have talent spotters who if they see a player who is promising they will offer to give them a tryout for their team, but by comparison to the number of players there are not many who are then offered a contract to play. Rugby is a truly international sport and can be found just about anywhere on the planet. Obviously there are countries where it is more popular than others but some including the USA are improving and taking an equal foothold in the world of Rugby and in some countries it has become the nearest thing to a competitive religion e.g. New Zealand and some of the smaller Pacific states. I recommend you to look at the woman’s games as they can be just as much entertaining as the men’s games and while you’re in a sporting mood take a look at the Australian Rules Football, which will blow your mind.
There was no such thing as association football (i.e. soccer) when William Webb Ellis was playing. Different areas, schools and universities had their own versions of 'football'. The one played at Rugby School at that time permitted a player to catch the ball, retire 10 yards and then kick it.
American "football" is your version of rugby - played by wimps wearing shoulder pads, helmets and armour covering their groin.
Rugby is a great game. The rules are now very complicated, but in essence the aim of the game is to get the ball over the opponent’s goal line to score a “try” (by placing the ball firmly on the ground). That is awarded 5 points. You can run with or kick or pass (throw - aways backwards never forwards) the ball to get it from one end of the pitch to the other. You then have an opportunity to convert that try by kicking it over the goal (depends where you scored the try as to how easy that will be - angle and distance from goal post). That scores an additional 2 points. A penalty might also be awarded based on something the other team does wrong, and again this involves kicking the ball over the goal posts - to be awarded 3 points. Or you might try to get a try instead from wherever the penalty occurred. It’s fast, can be brutal as you saw, and action packed. In my opinion, much more interesting than football (soccer)!
Surely you mean, always backward, never forward?
@@julianbarber4708 yup! I do. I’m going to edit that. Thanks for highlighting.
I live next to the home of rugby, cardiff arms park!
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Great post Steve, there's an excellent film called Invictus. There's enough rugby info included for you to understand the principles of the game.
Are the England rugby team good?
We are in the top 10 teams in the world currently, we used to be good a few years ago and have won the World Cup - The French, Irish New Zealand and South Africa are fighting for the next World Cup (this year in France)
Rugby for beginners: a guide to the rules of rugby union is my recommend for a RUclips video as a good intro explaining rugby to those who don't know the game, was made by English Rugby 8 years ago in the lead up to that years world cup. While there has been some rule changes since it was published it stays to the core facts of the game enough anyone can get a good enough understanding of the game to enjoy watching a match without getting confused.
My brother toured California with his pub side (Belsize Park) in the early 80's, they had an absolute blast. I think the scene over there has been really developing in the past 10 years, a bit of an explosion of the game. You need to watch videos of Nigel Owens, top referee and his comments were to the point and brilliantly funny a lot of the time. Great ref and my brothers absolute hero, he is a qualified Rugby referee and thinks Nigel was the very best.
You should react to great British sports of Shin Kicking and Dwile Flonking... that would be funny!
You could watch rugby in basically any town and most villages in uk on a Saturday and a red card means they got sent off the field, and can't play the rest of the game, and sometimes you may get banned for a few games
Played rugby at school, then for a couple of local teams.
Have some lovely scars and a disfigured ear as trophies 😂
Hi Steve, yes in England it is mainly rugby and football at school, for boys and tennis for girl. there is of course basketball and athletics cross country running ect, I ran for north Dorset many years ago.
This def depends on where you go to school and what local or school facilities you have access to. I went to a girls school and we did basketball, netball, football and athletics (mainly) as we had a big green public common outside .... never did tennis 😂
The best definition of rugby is 'Rugby is a ruffians' game played by gentlemen, Football is a gentleman's game played by ruffians'. I don't know the origin, but it seems correct.
There's a video on the rules and differences between union and league from the English Rugby Union channel. There was another one Rugby Union explained for Americans.
“Like hockey”..no cause ice hockey is a brawl where a team game occasionally breaks out.
While USA was obviously late to playing rugby they have now built a very good national team competing at a high international level. You also have a very good international seven aside team that competes very well in world championship competitions.
As always, when USA decides to take on another sport, they want to be among the best and no doubt they will get there by recruiting the best of trainers from top rugby playing nations.
U.S.A. came to rugby very earlier, in 1875.
Won gold at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics.
It then faded compared to American Football.
American football started WITHOUT padding. Padding was introduced in 1910 and made compulsory in 1950.
Basics. They can only pass backwards, just watch more and you'll see what I mean, they line up attacking and pass almost laterally. Only the player with the ball can be tackled. You can kick the ball, as long as its still in play it's anyone's, but you obviously risk a bad bounce and ultimately loosing the ball to the opposition. to score a try (a touch down) you literally have to touch it down in the area passed the oppositions try line - 5pts (end zone). Like football (English football), the rules favour constant play, avoiding stoppages as much as possible, for instance if the player gets tackled with the ball and is down holding it the ref will give him a little time to pass it back to his team mates and 'recycle' the ball and play carries on. There are other plays, such as conversions, scrums, lineouts, mauls, rucks, penalties and drop goals but you don't need to get bogged down with all that for now. Good reacts are a compilation of best tries, there are so many, maybe '32 Great Rugby Tries - Impossible to Forget!' If you want to see hits, 'Rugby Hits-Till I collapse'. Skills? 'Best Rugby Skills 2021/2022 - Offloads, Steps, Skills'. Enjoy.
Hi, Steve, There are two forms of rugby, Rugby Union and Rugby League. Rugby Union is played by 15 playera in a team and Rugby League has 13 players. Rugby League broke away from Rugby Union at a meeting in The George Hotel in my home town of Huddersfield in 1895. Both types of rugby have slightly different rules. Rugby League in the UK is mainly played in the north whilst Union is mainly played in the south. Both types are played over the world
7:48 That dude got a Red Card 50seconds after full time. The irony of it 😂
The rules for both types of rugby are relatively different from American football, It originated from Football. It is a contact sport butt if the rules are followed properly injuries can be minimal, the types of tackles are specified in the rules. Red Cards like in football are a sending off offence with no replacement player for the rest of the game. red and yellow card penalties are common inn many sports.
An observation I an many have made is that games like Football, Rugby, And even cricket are designed for rapid and continuous play, where possible play is continued with relatively fast restarts for out of bounds. You should note that most sports are shown with no commercials during play so for example there is no break on TV until Half time then full timeif its on BBC there are no adverts anyway.
Rugby Is played at a rugby ground/ Stadium. Football, rugby and cricket have their own stadiums generally speaking. When I lived in Leicester I regularly watched the Tigers then went for a pint of Tiger beer. National teams can vary from season to season Englend have had some great players and seasons, I always enjoyed watch Johnny Wilkinson play.
on a side not Wimbledon fortnight starts 3 july if you like tennis.
Rugby is nothing like American Football. Look up any of the matches, but especially the final of the Rugby World Cup in 2019. You will know then that there is no comparison!
There's a fantastic video titled: Rugby for beginners: a guide to the rules of rugby union. By England Rugby, might give you some insight to the rules of the game
USA are to host the Rugby World Cup in 2031. Best team game in the world. Played it for a number of years, great camaraderie. Any contact with the head of the ball carrier by the tackler is deemed dangerous play and can mean either a sin bin time of 10 mins (yellow card) or a red card sending off for the remainder of the game depending on the circumstances (mitigation). You keep the point of contact below the shoulder level. The current top rugby teams in the world are Ireland and France. There are two major annual Championships - the Six Nations where England Ireland France Scotland Italy and Wales play each other and the equivalent in the Southern Hemisphere, where Sth Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina play each other. The World Cup comes around every 4 years and will be held in France this autumn. The World Champions are Sth Africa. The games against Australia are always tasty. Fiji, Samoa, Georgia, Canada, Japan and not forgetting the American Eagles, (who lost to Portugal in the playoff for a place in the next world cup this Autumn in France) are amongst many teams who play around the globe. Club rugby is strong in these countries.
A real mans game i played for my school i loved it , it was the only time i was tought how to play dirty and get away with bites and punches.
Girls also play rugby at school. My granddaughter broke her wrist playing but carried on until the end of the game before saying anything
Rugby - a mans version of American football 😁
Yes, from what I understand, American football came UK immigrant playing Rugby in the US, and it evolved after that. However, there are two games of Rugby. Rugby League and Rugby Union. They are similar but different at the same time. If you get a yellow card, you are sent from the field for a 10-minute and that team plays a man short. if you get a red card, you are sent from the field for the rest of the game and your team plays with a man short.
Rugby Football was begun at Rugby School in 1823, when William Webb Ellis picked up the football and RAN with it! Oval ball. Argentina Vs Australia was always going to be vicious.
As I’m reading this in my back garden in Rugby👍
Rugby Union is the "original" form of rugby, which traditionally has amateur status, with no payments. In 1895 though, the Rugby League split off from the Union, specifically to allow their players to be paid. Rugby League is mostly played in the north of England (although now played around the world) and happened because the men playing the game were mostly in poor industrial areas and couldn't afford to play without reasonable payment. The rules of the game are similar in both codes, but Rugby League is perceived as the 'tougher' form. All the violence stays on the pitch though - both codes are very much family sports, and you will often see mothers and young girls spectating there as well as men and boys. It is not unusual to see both teams supporters mixing together peacefully, unlike (soccer) football.
Referees are completely respected
2 yellow cards and you automatically get a red card.
you can kick the ball. you can even score by kicking the ball. There is no offensive/defensive line up - the one line up has to do it all. The play is continuous
It's funny how basketball is like netball (a game played by girls in the UK), and baseball is like rounders (a game played by primary school-aged children in the UK)
@@scottneil1187indeed, baseball is as American as apple pie.
Meaning it originated in England....
Basically a normal tackle would be below shoulder height and with the arms rapped, you just wrap your arms around the player. You can only tackle the player who has the ball. They are lowering the tackle height a lot recently and it could be below the sternum now. Most effective tackle is the chop tackle where you go real low to their ankles.
FYI also Ireland is number 1 in the world for Rugby at the minute ☘️
You should also explain that for Rugby, it's expected that both Ireland's form the team. As they should elsewhere. Unionists can swivel if they disagree.
There are 2 types of RUGBY. Rugby League and Rugby Union. This is RUGBY UNION.
A RED card means you are sent off the pitch for the entire match. No replacement is allowed. Your side plays on with one less man.
A YELLOW card gets you sent off to the SIN BIN for 10 minutes before being allowed back onto the pitch. Your team is one man down until you return.
You can ONLY tackle the player who has the ball.
A red card is given for a dangerous tackle.
ANY contact with the head is a NO NO !!
You cannot lift a man off his feet and slam him into the turf.
You can't tackle the man in the air.
All this with NO PADDING !!
You need to watch the 6 NATIONS RUGBY TOURNAMENT. England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Italy.
one of the rules of rugby have been changed recently and that is tackling. A tackle cannot be high hence shoulder and higher is not allowed and is usually a red card ( sending off for the whole match) a yellow card is a sin bin for 10 minutes
Also here is a challenge for you. Get clued up on the rules and then September/October watch the Rugby world cup. There will be a time difference as it is being held in France and also this will be one of the most open ended world cups that any number of teams could win and one of the favourites is in fact Ireland. Oh and here a pointer Ireland is the only sport where both Ireland and N. Ireland play as one nation
If you have a minor infraction in rugby you get a Yellow Card (in rugby you also have to leave the pitch for 10minutes for a yellow, leaving ng your team with 14 men for the duration) 2 infractions means a Red Card, No more playing in that game and possibly the next few, depending on how often the player gets "carded". If you tackle above the shoulders its an automatic Red Card or if you make a dangerous tackle (Lifting a player up and driving him down on his head, for example) then its automatic Red.
Thats the Gist of it
Usually a Yellow card is if you break the rules but it is unintentional and is like a warning but the player can remains on the field and continues playing but frequently they are sent off for 10mins. Whereas a Red card is if you break the rules intentionally and you are sent off the field and yup its for the game, its not a penalty thing. Also if you are playing professionally a Red card also brings a fairly hefty financial fine.
In terms of padding the only padding worn is Shin pads down the sock and a Jock Strap. Some players also wear a soft head padding but that's all. There aren't many rubgy matches where someone isn't bloody. Injuries are pretty common.
The idea is to tackle the man with the ball, you can't block or obstruct an opposition player who is not carrying the ball like in American football. Generally most foul play is delt with a yellow card, resulting with the offending player leaving the field for 10 minutes (sin bin). Any contact with the head results in a red card which takes thr player of the field for the remainder of the match and a ban for a number of games. The tackle high has been lowered to prevent head injuries and concussion. I would recommend reading up on thr rules of rugby, it makes watching the great game much more enjoyable.
Sorry, don't know about telegram! but willing to talk. 👍
When most of these games were played if a player was handed a red card that player took no further part in the game and was not replaced.
Need to watch other videos. It's a rough sport but generally very peaceful.
Sport Invented in Great Britain
Football 1863
Cricket 1787
Rugby 1823.
Golf 1502
Hockey 1860
Rounders 1884
Badminton 1887
Lawn Tennis 1859
Table Tennis 1880
Snooker 1875
Bungee Jumping 1979
Bobsleigh 1890
Curling 1541
Darts. 1600's
You forgot to mention rounders was originally named.....baseball.
Major league rugby is in america. It's awesome to follow a grass-roots game and become part of the community
React to ten most unforgettable rugby tries of the modern era
All I know about rugby is the well-known saying that
Rugby is a game played by men with oddly shaped balls
Lol
Also that Zara Tindall and her husband Mike Tindall, who used to Captain Rugby international games, support the gMe,, as does Zara s Mother, the Princess Royal, Princess Anne, only daughter of our late Queen Elizabeth lol and HRH Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh, may they both Rest In Peace.
In addendum,
Zara Tindall nee Phillips, is an international and 9lympic equestrian in the field of Eventing which incorporates Dressage, Criss country and Show jumping...
I would livei to see you react to Equestrian sports including Eventing as I live horses and used to ride and teach hirseruding wait back in the Seventies
Thank you.
dont think the video puts into perspective how big these guys are theyre all absolutely massive lads
Red card = You are off and can't be substituted with another player.. so:
Your team loses a player for the rest of the game
NOTE:
Each team can start with 15 players and up to 7 substitutes.
Players that have left the field are only allowed to return if they have been treated for an injury.
Passing the ball forward is not allowed nor is it allowed to drop the ball forward, which is called knock-on or Avant.
The ball may only be advanced by carrying or kicking it forward.
Any player on the field of play may advance with the ball.
Attacking players must remain behind the ball whilst active or run the risk of being called offside.
Players not interfering with play can be in front of ball but must get back behind the ball before then again interfering with play.
The referee is responsible for enforcing the rules.
It is played in two continuous halves of 40 minutes each with a 10 minute rest period in between.
There is no provision for breaks (unless there is an injury).
The game will stop if a player is fouled, the ball goes out of play or a try or drop goal is scored.
The time is kept by the head referee and must be stopped only when there are injuries.
A tackle cannot be made above shoulder height and doing so will cause the referee to award a foul.
The defending team must tackle a player by grabbing a hold and pulling them to the floor.
A player tackled or tackled (knocked down) must immediately pass or release the ball. The tackling player must also immediately release the tackled player.
A melee/scrum restarts play after a forward pass or knock-on.
A melee/scrum is also formed on other less frequent occasions.
A line-out restarts play when the ball leaves the field of play.
A try/try is awarded when the ball is carried beyond the goal line (end zone) and grounded.
5 points are awarded for making a try/test.
2 points are awarded for converting the extra kick after a try/try.
3 points are awarded for converting a field goal (kick) after an infringement has been committed.
3 points are awarded for converting a drop kick in open play.
After a try/try or penalty kick is converted, the ball is kicked to the scoring team (except in sevens, seven-a-side rugby).
A successful conversion, penalty or kick at goal only occurs when the player manages to kick the ball through the top section of the goal.
If a player is unsuccessful the ball is still in play until it crosses one of the playing fields boundaries.
This is a good time to get into rugby as it's a world cup year. It starts September 8th. The USA do have a national team, but unfortunately they didn't qualify this for the world cup this time. It's a fantastic game, but it's worth watching a video that shows great passages of play rather than brutal hits. Brutal hits are fine, but without the context of what normal play looks like, it can be a bit confusing.
the red card means the player is no longer aloud to play in the match the team cannot replace him and has to play the rest of the game with that player missing the player often get a match ban meaning they are banned from playing in the next match it is common for them to get a three match ban but he can be replaced for future games but not during the game he gets a red card same in soccer the game itself is very similar to your football
the ball is similar in shape but much fatter than you football there are two types of rugby / rugby union and rugby league union is played at a much faster pace in league the idea is to get a try this means placing the ball in what you call an end zone the team get 6 attempts to do this providing they do not loose the ball if they fail the opponents get the ball this done by kicking the ball to them if the ball bounces over the side line then it is a scrum down the two teams form a scrum an amount of players huddle up together from both teams and the ball is put in the middle then they have to push against each other to get the ball when i used to play my position was prop forward this is a scrum position comprising of two prop forwards and a hooker the prop forwards where the biggest guys you could get and the hooker the smallest the two prop would link up with the hooker in the middle they job was to push as hard as they can while the hooker tries to hook the ball with his feet a pass it backward through the scrum that is the first line the second line scrum half player was made up same as the front line but with no hooker there job was to push the prop forwards imagine it to be like a reverse tug of war in stead of pulling you are pushing injury occurs in just about every match players can be sent to the blood bin for treatment to cuts and such but are allowed to come back and play on its not uncommon to see players wearing blood stained bandages
The USA are the last country to win an Olympic medal. I have seen the USA v England play at Twickenham. The home of England rugby.
There's only one rule you need to know to watch your first rugby game and that is that you can't pass the ball forwards. Everything else will follow. Scoring is similar to American Football with tries (= touchdowns), conversions and penalty and drop kicks (=field goals). Play is far more continuous as we don't have downs.
Videos of New Zealand Hakas and the Welsh National Anthem will give you a sense of the national pride attached to those nations' rugby teams. The main two tournaments to look out for are the Six Nations annual 'round robin' tournament, Feb to April, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Italy. There's also the Rugby World Cup which includes New Zealand, Australia and South Africa and less successful rugby playing nations.
You can kick it forward to gain ground, either keeping it in play to be chased or to put it out (into touch) for as much distance as possible. If you’re behind the last line of defence at the 22 metre mark when you kick it can go straight into touch, but if you are forward of that line the ball has to bounce before it goes into touch otherwise you have to restart the game from where it was kicked.
The team with the ball has to run the field to the otherside, if you need to pass the ball, you can only throw it behind you, thats why you'll see them running in a sort of line. The opposite team has to try to tackle and stop them from reaching the other side and getting a touch down. They can only tackle lower than the neck to avoid injury
I would reccomend looking at a few 6 nations highlights videos. Right now the dominant teams in are Ireland, France, New Zealand and South Africa. If you enjoyed this we're just about to head into a rugby world cup in September.
Will say on the whole as brutal as rugby is it is a game with respect at its core. Respect for yourself, the referee, your team and your opposition. In a game thats as brutal ad it is though tempers can flare and in those situations red cards are at times needed but post game the offending player will usually buy whoever it is a pint if hes still around
Rugby is constant movement between attack and defence. You score tries at the end of the field and then have to kick a conversion through the posts (like American Football) for more points.
American Football you almost have 2 teams - attack and defence which you rotate depending on what phase you’re in. Rugby there is only one set of players who have to do both attack and defence.
Opposition are allowed to tackle players but unless there is a infraction like a penalty (kick to posts for points or touchline for attacking line outs) or knock outs there are no stoppages.
1. There two types of cards, yellow - off the field for ten minutes, and red - off the field for the rest of the match.
2. you can pass the ball to another player but the pass must go backwards. You can kick the ball forward.
3. Tackles must be made below the neck and attempts must be made to circle the other player with the tackler's arms.
4. The USA has a rugby team, they're called the USA Eagles and you'll be able to follow them in the world cup later this year.
5. Here's a video from England Rugby that gives a grounding in the rules - ruclips.net/video/FOJejnPI0p0/видео.html&pp=ygUZdGhlIHJ1bGVzIG9mIHJ1YmdieSB1bmlvbg%3D%3D
6. It's great fun both to play and watch (though I'm too old and fat now to get on the pitch anymore).
@@SeeDaRipper... Cheers, mate. I didn't know that, thank you!
British Lions is the combined team, well worth checking out
British and irish lions
Please do some of the "big hits" videos. And there's some great videos showing the actual skill
involved. And yeas you can only tackle someone with the ball but the game doesn't stop like in US football..
Are England good at Rugby? Yes, it was named after the English town of Rugby, first played in the 19th century.
England's rugby team's performance is up and down like fiddlers elbow!! 🙄🤭
"A player must not tackle or attempt to tackle an opponent early, late or dangerously. Dangerous tackling includes, but is not limited to, tackling or attempting to tackle an opponent in open play above the base of the sternum even if the tackle starts below the base of the sternum."
At school i was taught to tackle around the waist or below
Rugby is american football without padding, also uses an oval ball
There's red and yellow cards, yellow is a warning, 2 yellows equals a red, red means sending off for the whoe game, this also applies in soccer
In football/rugby/gaelic football/hurling/etc A yellow card is a caution and a red card is a serious offence and you will be told to leave the field and your team will be down a player for the rest of the game. If you get a red card you could miss the next few games 1-3 games on average.
2 yellow cards in the same game = a red card, 1 game ban.......but a straight red card (most of this video was straight red card) = 3 game ban minimum
Yep right here. I played for my town. If you didn't come away with some decent scratches yoi clearly weren't playing 😅. It is not often you get a red card in this game. Never had one when i played. Amazing game love it
For future reacting, first and foremost i reccomend watching recent and past match highlights for both rugby union and rugby league. allows you to see the subtle differences, which you enjoy more, and gives a good sense of the pace of game and scoring. theres also a good video explaining rugby (both types) made by an american, for americans familiar with american football and that will benefit this. pretty much covers everything from a reaction pov, but you never know you might find you enjoy it if your into watching sports! rugby is a brutal game, played by gentlemen (for the most part)
lol it looks more like WWE. I'm surprised they not hitting each other with chairs. I live opposite Twickenham the home of rugby which is cool until 82000 people turn up. Depeche Mode play on 17th luckily only 50000 people will be coming. We have Rugby League and Rugby Union both same game different number of players per side probably some other difference too
The US rugby team are called the eagles and take place in the world cup: they're not very good. Most of these fouls were high (above the shoulders) I saw one foul as 'spearing': lifting the player and throwing them head first at the ground.
A Yellow Card leads to a 15 minute Sin Bin punishment and you sit on the sideline until the 15 minutes is up, if you get a second Yellow Card thats an automatic Red Card. Dangerous play that could harm the opposition is generally the main reason for immediate Red Cards. Once you get a Red Card thats it you are done for the day and may even be fined by your club too.
It's a great game, inferior only to cricket. It is fast, hard and very skilful.
In American sports you would call it an ejection from the game, but the team of the red carded (sent off) player plays the rest of the game a player down (short handed).
tackling is an integral part of rugby. A legal tackle is one below the should in which the tackler attempts to wrap his arms around the player being takled, who must also have a foot on the ground.
The card sysyem for illegal play is Yellow, in which the offending palyer is sent off for ten minutes. A red card means the offender is sent off and the player does not return at all.
You should search Lee Evans Rugby, he is so funny and sums up rugby players and referees brilliantly lol xxx
Rugby world cup 2019 England 45 - USA 7 honestly its dreadful, but funny.
I recommend hurling, garlic football (everyone watches the hard hits bit the skill involved is even more impressive)
A that move ain't even legal in MMA 😮
Shoulder dislocation is quite often including myself
Hey dude, yes tackles are the aim of stopping the opposing team from scoring. But there are rules, you may not hit a playing ubove the shoulders, you can't tackle a player that is in the air and you can't turn them upside down and drive their heads into the ground. There are more rules but that is just focusing on the most common ones. If you are found to have made a mistake there are a few options the ref has depending on the infringement. 1 a penalty 2 a yellow card (that player must leave the feald for 10 minutes) 3 red card ( that player must leave the game for the rest of the match) there are two types of penalties but that would be another discussion 😂