The Rules of Rugby League - EXPLAINED! 

This is sooooo useful to me because I'm actually just joined a rugby league team and I wasn't so good at understanding the rules of the game, because I'm only 12 but because of this video, I will be able to play brilliantly the next time I play

I'm a rugby union player and come to learn league. Thanks for the rules Ninh Ly! I can also see a lot of segregation between League and Union. To be honest, both are rugby and are both great sports. League is pretty popular in Australia (State of Origin, Australia considered the best at international...).

Thank you for sharing, My intro to rugby was a union game. My university (in California) has a team. But I’m new to rugby league and the more I watch the more I enjoy it. I’m currently watching the NRL match highlights. Eventually I’ll find my favorite team.

Just a devastated Brisbane fan passing through. After all the hard work this season... Thanks a lot JT.

I have used rugby league here in America to turn gridiron fans into Rugby watchers! One fella said he didn't like the game until I showed him League and explained its closeness to gridiron, and he fell in love with the sport. After that, introducing union to him was a piece of cake, (and showing him his first union match as being the '73 Barbarians vs All Blacks game helped a lot!) Therefore, you want to get Americans into Rugby, teach them about League, and maybe we can get something going over here!

Thanks , I'm a Liverpool fan off to Anfield today to watch Eng V N.Z. with my RL mad father in law , this has helped me look less of an idiot now hopefully !

I now know more about Rugby League, thanks to this video - I've learned quite a lot! Thanks, Ninh!

Very informative. I knew there was Rugby League and a Rugby Union but what the differences between the two were I knew little about. Both look very interesting to watch.

Memo - Need to show video to NRL Refs.

Hey Ninh, as a fan of selected sports I am well impressed that there is an encyclopaedia on youtube with this type of thing. If only other channels were as professional as yours.

Great explanation! Very handy when I want to explain the game to some mates who don't know the rules!

Drop goals are worth it ( Cowboys vs Broncos 2015 grand final). UP THE COWBOYS!

This video has helped a lot as I am starting rugby soon in school in PE and I didn't know anything about league but now I can understand. Thanks for the video

Tekken music in the background?

+ninh ly when my dad used to play professional (bradford ,leeds and Wigan) he had to compete in the scrum but they changed it because it wasted alot of time in the game and they were very very messy anyway I don't think there is nothing wrong with this video and I do appreciate you spreading the word of the great game rugby league keep up the good work buddy

Rugby League is really exciting. Thanks for the great video from a CFL,NFL and now NRL fan. Really got me going👍.

I'm using your videos for my virtual PE classes!!!! Thank you!!!

Thank u for this video , I am playing league for the first time and I am 13 and my friend told me to try it because I play union and now I know how to play league a bit from watching this amazing video 😊👍🏾

Needed this. Watching State of Origin tonight with a few mates. GO MAROONS!

I played rugby in high school back in Zimbabwe. I now see we were playing by rugby union rules. Rugby league is interesting too. I wish they taught us both forms of the game. Thanks for the video

I prefer league but union and league are actually 2 completely different sports so try them out before you decide do just go off what people say they are both fun to play

Trying to get into NRL and this is helpful as someone who’s never played it or watched it

i have officially watched every ninh explains video

Good quick summary of the game. As a ex-Union player I'm embarrassed to admit that I did not know the six tackle rule.

Dude I love your videos so much. I’m trying to learn more sports than just the few basic American ones we have. When I find a new sport I want to learn and follow you are the first one I go to. I’ve actually watched your videos again when I get confused during games. Thanks so much and keep doing great work.

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That's Super Legue in the video, club Rugby League over in England. But the rules are pretty much the same in other countries like Aus and France. Some additional rules. The ball can float forward but it has to go backwards out of the hands. You can also strip the ball if you're in a one on one tackle. If you kick the ball past the opponent's in goal the other team starts from their 20 metre line and gets an extra tackle. You can lift players in tackles but their body has to be horizontal or less than that. Any closer and you risk them landing on their neck and you get penalised. Instead of draft picks there's a salary cap on all clubs. If an offside player tackles the opponent before their team is back onside it's a professional foul and they get a 10 minute sin bin. (In Australian club League, which is the NRL) Kicking out on the full means they the other team gets the ball right from you kicked it.

Conversion attempts do not have to be taken 20 metre out from the try line. They are normally taken around the 20 metre line but a goal kicker can choose to take the ball back as far as he wants to.

This looks closer to American football than Union I feel like I actually understand it

Coming up to the seven year anniversary of this video by watching it again!

nice one ninh this really helped plus not every part of the body deflecting it will be a knock on other than the the leg if you deflect it forward with any part of your body except your legs than it's a knock on

1:53 Illuminati confirmed Six Six Six (666)

Scrum makes no sense in rugby league! They should replace this with something else!

This should help a lot of people learn the game good job👍

I was watching Tekken vids before this and thought I had one still going in the back ground 😂

Its funny how you see a soccer video or basketball and its all kids arguing about which sports are bad and which are good.. It seems rugby fans are much more mature and can actually converse about what sports they like around the world! Good to see!

To be honest, I love both types of Rugby, but I think I like League a bit more. It's faster, stronger, tougher, easier to play (funner), and a not bunch of perks to it. So to all the Unioners who wish to be snobby, weak up, because League gives Union a run for it's money. I also wish Aussie was more popular. It's sad how the most boring sports are considered the "world sports", rather than the funnest ones which are less popular. The world sports should be American Football, Aussie Rules, Gaelic Football, Hurling, and Baseball. I also wish League was the more favorited one. It's rather stupid how soccer, cricket, tennis, gold, and land hockey are the most popular. This is coming from an Irishman, lads. I like Union too, though. No offense from earlier.

im watching this before im tring to get in to my local team

Ninh, you're the best. Hope you're doing well and still rockin' Texas A&M!

I hate all the union players talking trash about league. People do it at school and my dad said to me to tell them don't knock it till you try it. Do you agree?

I GOT IN TO MY LOCAL TEAM BECUASE OF THIS THANK U SO MUCH

The video that made me subscribe years ago. How time flies.

I used to be a person that disliked how Rugby League works due to their uncontested tackles and how the scrum works... To this day I still find fact that they stand in formation and roll the ball through them kinda silly. But what got me to have more respect for the game is how much more simple the game is and how much more faster the gameplay is.

I didn't realize just how similar this is to American football, especially the old version before forward passes were allowed.

Great video-just note there’s no pushing in a rugby league scrum. They’re uncontested.

"If you can count to six then you understand rugby league". Ha, clever way to give me confidence

As someone who grew up playing American Football , I do appreciate this much grittier style of Rugby. But it can get annoying with refs sometimes - can get way too technical… I was watching the AFL - and I much prefer that style of Rugby. on a huge (cricket) pitch , which is more similar to traditional football (soccer). I like aspects of both . Personally, I would take the best of the two styles -it would be a perfect blend..

Rugby Union seems more fluid. I prefer that.

Oh hello there! Thanks mate I’m 12 and all my mates were playing football and I had no clue how to play so once again thanks

I just joined my colleges rugby team and we have the first practice tomorrow so this was useful

Please could RU-vid add a feature to turn the music off. I would have preferrred listening to what was said without also having to listen to music. In saying this I'm not passing any opinion on the music itself.

Rugby League & Rugby Union are better than American Football but rugby league is much more faster

I enjoyed the video. :)

Love the fact you have Wigan player as the picture to the video

...and according to the music, it implies that in order to be of any worth to your team, you need to move like you got the i-frames of Jin Kazama's Electric Wind God Fist...which probably explains why players are seemingly intangible when they're in The Zone.

Fun Fact: The normal, improvised running of the ball in rugby with the added stipulation that you can only pass it backward or sideways has a smaller equivalent in American Football, but with a difference. It's called the Lateral play, and just like Rugby it is not executed by design. It is a split-second decision by the ball carrier at any given moment while a play is being run to abandon the playcall and go for broke with the Lateral to another player behind or alongside him. Unlike Rugby, it is usually only done at the end of the 1st half or end of the game as a last ditch effort to score a game-winner, therefore it is usually one long play. Because of the way a Lateral is used in games, being tackled during it rather than scoring is considered a failure. It is a low-percentage move, has a low-probability of success. In the film "The Longest Yard" with Adam Sandler, the Lateral is referred to as "Schoolyard Bullshit" because of its freestyle nature appealing to kids just playing American football without any rules growing up. I guess Americans technically could pick up Rugby rules rather seamlessly. The Lateral during real games (both successes and failures): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YLWOOHUD-28.html The Lateral in "The Longest Yard," skip to 0:40 for the scene: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IUd0HJf1LhM.html

Hi Ninh, Love your videos. Just wondering if you have plans to do a video on Touch Rugby? Cheers.

I like American football, but I prefer Rugby Union to Rugby League (even though league is closer to football)

Six, six, six...nice homage to Monty Python Search for the Holy Grail...

Do they really retreat ten meters after a tackle? I was watching some league, and sometimes it looked like after the tackle, the player who was tackled just put the ball on the ground and a teammate picked it up and ran with it, without retreating.

Why still bother with scrums if they're now uncontested? Can't they do something else?

in what situations would a six tackle set turn into a seven or four tackle set?

thanks that helped with the 40-20 rule

Just a reminder: Rugby League > Rugby Union

So far I would say I like and understand Rugby Union Better. Well not understand but definitely like. It's far more interesting JMO!

Good job. Thanks. I am now a fan.

I just started playing rugby here in the states. I would say union to me is amazing if you have a football background. Hit, hit and hit some more.

A Mix between Rugby League and American Football would be nice.

I have a Thai friend coming to my house today he does not know the rules of rugby so this is helpful

Thank you so much my first game is in 2 days and I am so nervous

New to this lovely sport because of the pandemic. Been betting it quite often now. Can someone explain the “ Set Restart”? Drives me crazy when the opposition gets 6 more attempts.

Soccer is mainly popular in the European countries but rugby league is popular in Australia

Ninh Ly I love your videos especially The Difference between Rugby Union & Rugby League and The Rules of Australian Rules Football videos, especially the latter, the comment section with the various debates on whether or not Gaelic Football influenced Aussie Rules Football were great. I'm Irish and to be honest I prefer Rugby Union. That's just my own personal opinion on the matter and I'm not knocking Rugby League. I've seen a few matches on Sky Sports anyways I have a quick question for you. Are there any differences between the ball used in Rugby League and the ball used in Rugby Union? sizes, dimensions etc.

1:52 got to see

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Very good video 👌

Jin kazama..... Woahhhh

One day ill get to the big leagues and ill come back to this video and smile - (13yr old in training)

Jin Kazama. If you know you know. #IYKYK

Thanks you! Will you be making more vidoes in the future?

Thanks bro 😎

Good video .

Good video 👌 .

Play prop in Union and loose forward in league and I personally think league is better as it's more free flowing and less complicated

I've just started watching Australian rugby league and I'm confused by one thing. It seems like every time a player is tackled and down on the ground they often keep wrestling around for a few seconds afterwards. I don't understand why. It always looks like nobody is really moving but they are still pushing down on the ball carrier. Can someone explain that to me?

2:37 = one of the reason we let Briscoe go⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️

What is with the scrums? Whats the point? They always just throw the ball to their own side rather than down the middle for an actual scrum.

Hey Ninh please make a video on rules of athletics

Does rugby have a designated conversion kicker or is the kick made by the player who scored the try?

please do RUGBY LEAGUE NINES ,TAG RUGBY and TOUCH .

How come some trys are awarded 6 points?? Is this with the conversion but we don't see it?

So, you get to be tackled 6 times, and if you didn't score you lose posession ? Isn't it like American Football that you get a new set of tackles (or downs) after you've gained a determianted amount of meters ?

You mentioned Six a lot and since Toronto is the 6ix, is this the kind of Rugby the Toronto Wolfpack play?

Sorry to keep commenting in your stuff mate... But just a note that the 40/20 rule description here implies that you hand the ball over from where you kicked it if you 'get it wrong' - you can get it wrong and kick it straight to the fb or winger, and it's okay on. I guess what I'm trying to say is my specify if it goes out on the full? Or is that too detailed for a beginner vid?

Hmmm. This is just my opinion, but rugby league sounds more logical and better flowing than the other one. Of course, it also sounds more similar to American football which is a plus. Haha

I notice that players pass the ball underhanded. Why could they pass( throw the ball overhanded as long as it is backwards or sideways? An overhanded bullet pass would really move the ball across the field faster and conceivable open up the play..

Which is the more popular format, Rugby league or Rugby union?

Is that 40-20 rule in Australian rugby league

Well the nrl season is already started and I hope paramatta eels win the next cup. I hope they can still play good without their best fullback Jared Hayne.

Does Super league have the 7 tackle rule where a Team kicks the ball dead in goal?