Most offside decisions in rugby union happen at rucks and mauls, especially when the ball is being recycled a lot. Like the scrum, an imaginary line is drawn through the foot of the last player in the ...

The maul is a bastion of rugby union, synonymous with the sport. Scour an English dictionary and the entry will be one of a handful of nouns – alongside the likes of flanker, ruck and scrum ...

The sport of rugby union (henceforth called ‘rugby’) requires players ... we propose that rugby needs a contact skill-training programme that includes all contact forms—ruck, scrum, maul, line-out, ...

When it comes to rules and regulations, the ruck is one of the more complex parts of rugby union. When a tackled player goes to ground, they must release the ball immediately. As soon as that happens, ...

Objectives: To undertake a detailed, large scale epidemiological study of match injuries sustained by professional rugby union players in order ... but foul play was only implicated in 6% of injuries.

Another Rugby 25 patch arrived today for all platforms bringing in a few key gameplay tweaks and improvements. One of the biggest additions is the Ruck Hold Ball option. Players can now hold A (Xbox) ...