In rugby football, the penalty is the main disciplinary sanction available to the referee to penalise players who commit deliberate infringements. The...
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A penalty in rugby union is the main disciplinary sanction available to the referee to penalise a team who commit deliberate infringements. The team who...
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in rugby union and rugby league football. A try is scored by grounding the ball in the opposition's in-goal area (on or behind the goal line). Rugby union...
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The penalty box or sin bin (sometimes called the bad box, or simply bin or box) is the area in ice hockey, rugby union, rugby league, roller derby and...
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(sports) Penalty (golf) Penalty (gridiron football) Penalty (ice hockey) Penalty (rugby) Penalty (rugby union) Penalty kick (association football) Penalty shoot-out...
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sports rugby union and rugby league have shared origins and thus many similarities. Initially, following the 1895 split in rugby football, rugby union and...
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Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in...
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World Cup competition organised by the International Rugby Board (IRB) for national rugby union teams. The match was played at Stadium Australia in Sydney...
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In some European countries, the post-game penalty shots are unofficially known as "bullets". In rugby union, five players take kicks on goal from the...
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The 2023 Rugby World Cup final was a rugby union match played on 28 October 2023 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France. It marked the culmination...
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The laws of Rugby Union are defined by World Rugby (originally the International Rugby Football Board, and later International Rugby Board) and dictate...
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The Ireland and South Africa rugby union teams have a rivalry dating back to 1906. The Springboks of South Africa dominated their early meetings, with...
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Handré Pollard (category South African rugby union players)
professional rugby union player who currently plays for the South Africa national team and Leicester Tigers in England's Premiership Rugby. His regular...
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South African professional rugby union team based in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. They compete internationally in the United Rugby Championship and EPCR Challenge...
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professional rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Premiership Rugby club Bath and the England national team. Spencer began his youth rugby at Manchester...
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The Ireland women's national rugby union team represents Ireland in international women's rugby union competitions such as the Women's Six Nations Championship...
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The South Africa national rugby union team, commonly known as the Springboks (colloquially the Boks, Bokke or Amabhokobhoko), is the country's national...
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A line-out or lineout is a means by which, in rugby union, play is restarted after the ball has gone into touch. When the ball goes out of the field of...
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The Rugby World Cup is an international rugby union competition established in 1987. It is contested by the men's national teams of the member unions of...
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Australia men's national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative men's national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia...
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national rugby union team (Welsh: Tîm rygbi'r undeb cenedlaethol Cymru) represents the Welsh Rugby Union in men's international rugby union. Its governing...
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international rugby union. The team is administered by the Georgian Rugby Union and takes part in the annual Rugby Europe Championship and the Rugby World Cup...
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Penalty cards are used in many sports as a means of warning, reprimanding or penalising a player, coach or team official. Penalty cards are most commonly...
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of rugby football, the other being rugby union. It originated in 1895 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, as the result of a split from the Rugby Football...
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Manie Libbok (category South African rugby union players)
African professional rugby union player. He plays internationally for the Springboks, as well as for the Stormers in United Rugby Championship and Western...
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see International rugby union team records. To view records of the men's Rugby World Cup, see Records and statistics of the Rugby World Cup. *Players who...
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national rugby union team (Scots: Scotland naitional rugby union team, Scottish Gaelic: sgioba nàiseanta rugbaidh na h-Alba) represents the Scottish Rugby Union...
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(football/soccer) and rugby union (rugby/rugby football/rugger) is possible because of the games' similarities and shared origins. Rugby union has a number of...
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The Samoa national rugby union team represents the Samoa Rugby Union in men's international rugby union. They are also known as "Manu Samoa", which is...
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African professional rugby union team based in Pretoria. They play their home matches at Loftus Versfeld. They compete in the United Rugby Championship, having...
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