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The rules of rugby union

Alejandro Perez Palavecino Spanish

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Object
- Score more points than the opposite team
  - Ways to score points
    - Try
      - most exciting way of scoring
        A try is scored when a player touches the ball down inside the opposition's in-goal area between the try line and dead ball line.
        worth five points
        The maximum number of points you can score in one go
        Downwards pressure needed.
    - Conversion
      - After a team has scored a try
      - position
        taken from a point in line with where the ball was grounded for the try
        as near or as far from the goal-line as the kicker desires.
      - Value
        worth two points.
    - Penalty
      - main disciplinary sanction available to the referee to penalise a team who commit deliberate infringements
        Position
        Where the penalty takes place
        Value
        worth three points.
    - Drop goal
      - involves someone dropping a ball and then kicking when it hits the ground
        Value
        3 points
        Position
        wherever
Rules while having the possession of the ball
- Passing the ball
  - backwards
  - Sideways
  - Forward PROHIBITED
    - If so
      - Possession to the opponent
- You can run as much as you want
Ways to stop an opponent
- Tackle
  - What is it?
    - the ball carrier is held by one or more opponents and is brought to ground
  - How to gain possession
    - the ball carrier must release the ball immediately after the tackle
- Ruck
  - What is it?
    - formed if the ball is on the ground and one or more players from each team who are on their feet close around it.
  - How to gain possession
    - both sides must try to drive over the ball to make it available for their team-mates
- Maul
  - What is it?
    - the ball carrier is held by one or more opponents and one or more of the ball carrier’s team mates holds on (binds) as well
  - Requirements
    - needs a minimum of three players
    - The ball must be off the ground.
  - How to gain possession
    - The ball can then be passed backwards between players in the maul and eventually passed to a player who is not in the maul, or a player can leave the maul carrying the ball and run with it.
General caracteristics
- Time
  - 2º 40 min halve
  - 1º 40 min halve
  - combined time of 80 min
- there is no possession limit
  - If a team can keep the ball the entire game, they will
- Field
  - 100 meters long
- Teams
  - 2 teams
  - 15 player each
Important rules for playing
- Knock on
  - when a player loses possession of the ball and it goes forward
  - when a player hits the ball forward with the hand or arm
  - when the ball hits the hand or arm and goes forward, and the ball touches the ground or another player before the original player can catch it
  - Scrum
    - What is it?
      - means of restarting play after a minor infringement (such as a knock on)
    - Position
      - involves up to eight players from each team, known as the pack or forward pack, binding together in three rows and interlocking with the free opposing teams forwards
- in touch
  - The ball is in touch when it is not being carried by a player and it touches the touchline or anything or anyone on or beyond the touchline
  - Line out
    - What is it?
      - means of restarting play after the ball has gone into touch (off the field of play at the side).
    - Position
      - The forwards assemble in two lines, perpendicular to the touch line, one metre apart.
      - The hooker throws the ball down the corridor between these two lines of players
      - The player who successfully catches the ball can keep it and set up a maul, or can pass to the receiver (a player who stands next to the lineout to wait for such a pass) who then passes to the fly half and on to the back line.