Fear not – The Sporting News is here to walk you through the basics of rugby union so you can sit ... with similar rules in place for mauls. These include failing to release the ball after ...

But rugby league is slightly more complicated than this. A game of rugby league consists of two halves of 40 minutes, with injury time added on at the end of each half. Each half begins with a ...

NEW rules, a less severe disciplinary system and even a high-tech improvement. That’s what you’ll see on display at this ...

Rugby may have changed over the past 12 years but the basic skills of the fly-half are still the same. The fly-half - or outside-half, stand-off or first five-eighth, depending on which part of the ...