1. A rugby pitch is much larger than a football field 2. There are only 4 substitues in League, and 8 in Union. In Union, when you are subbed out you cannot return (unless you’re a front row player)
@12.47 i think you may be talking about Rugby League where the scrum is basically just a way to restart play. In Rugby Union it is still very much highly contested. Teams with really strong scrums can basically win games on the back of that strength.
You said football means 5 sports to you - you need to look up Gaelic football as well (and not forgetting Canadian Football although that's not really a different sport).
Originally both fields were 100 YARDS long (and 50 yards wide), but with the adoption of the metric system by the Whole World (except, lets see... Myanmar, Liberia, and...lets see....someone else... oh that's right... the usa) - the fields are now 100m long...
American football became more popular with professionalism. Similar to the split with league Once American football started paying everyone wanted to play that rather than Rugby which was strictly amateur
Watch a whole match (or at worst a "reasonable" highlights video), rather than the proliferation of "biggest hits" or "worst tackles" or "most feared players" videos. That way you will get a better idea of the "flow" of the games, as well as an understanding of the consequences/results of events that happen. (for example, a "worst tackles" video may show a player being "totally destroyed" by an tackle - which is actually illegal/dangerous! But the video doesn't show that the player who did this gets penalized (or even sent off), and because of this their team loses the game because of their infraction.
Absolutely agree with this. The "biggest hits" type videos really does rugby a disservice. I find the extended highlights videos on the World Rugby channel to be the best format. Regular highlights generally just show you the most significant moments in a game, but those moments are always the product of the play that came before it. Extended highlights do a good job of adding the necessary context.
- Rumours of The Scrum's demise has been greatly exaggerated. World Cups are won and lost in the scrum (see 2023). But there are Rugby Union fans who don't enjoy it or don't understand it, and I can't blame them. Scrummaging is a bit of an art - players literally talk about "the dark arts" - and since the referee only sees one side of the scrum, the on-field decisions are often at odds with what fans see. Also, fans whose teams suck at scrummaging generally don't like it. - I don't mean to be disparaging towards NFL, but it seems that the game evolved entirely for the benefit of advertiser time. - The unlimited plays (called "phases" in Rugby Union) is another aspect that can be used very effectively in strategic ways. Teams can play super carefully and keep possession to run down the clock if they're marginally ahead, or to attempt to force their opponents to make an error, if they're marginally behind and a penalty would save them. A great example of this is the Ireland vs New Zealand Quarter Final game in the 2023 World Cup. That aside, it is a fantastic game, both teams absolutely peaked, the game was exciting throughout, the stakes were high for both teams (Ireland have never progressed past the quarter finals; NZ had a bit of a bad run over the preceding year and had a lot to prove). Absolutely cracking. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--63MA879L0c.html
I feel like this is the definitive list of modern popular football codes: American football / college football Australian football Association football (soccer) Canadian football Gaelic football (sometimes called caid) Rugby union Rugby league There are also some different versions and niche spinoffs of the above, but they’re nowhere near as popular or well-known.
