How to play Rugby League?

**Jock The Rock** · 8th January 2013, 08:53 PM

Gday

I've played Union for for nearly 12 years but just recently I decided to try League. A group has set up a comp here in Tassie for the off season

I have never fully watched a game of league and was just wondering if anyone had any good instructional videos of basic rules of the game and rules at the breakdown

Or just words of wisdom from anyone who has crossed over before.

I found at training tonight that laying the ball back after being tackled is a big no no as well as trying to follow the ruck (I play No. 8 in Union)

Thanks

sheerluck · 8th January 2013, 09:17 PM

Noooooooooooooooooo! Don't defect to the dark side!!

In order to play League, you know you'll need to put on 30kgs, lose two thirds of your vocabulary, and learn how to take a dump in a hotel corridor, don't you?

**Jock The Rock** · 8th January 2013, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by sheerluck

Noooooooooooooooooo! Don't defect to the dark side!!

In order to play League, you know you'll need to put on 30kgs, lose two thirds of your vocabulary, and learn how to take a dump in a hotel corridor, don't you?

I must admit you are right, it has nothing on Union. No tactics, no plays etc all you need is muscle and a big ticker

I already bit over 100kg so can't get much bigger apart from going horizontally

It's just something to fill in the gap til the Union season starts again, sure as hell beats touch footy

I got pinged a few times last season for rough touches

**MickS** · 8th January 2013, 09:32 PM

Breakdown in rugby league is what happens to coaches week in week out. Other than that, there are 6 tackles, knock ons, turn overs, what can be loosely described as a scrum...among other things.

The Rules of Rugby League Football

Rugby League - Guide to the Game

**MickS** · 8th January 2013, 09:36 PM

This is all you really need though

Era Of The Biff - Rugby League Memories Stories 50s to early 90's

sheerluck · 8th January 2013, 09:46 PM

Originally Posted by MickS

.........what can be loosely described as a scrum.................

aka 12 big guys get together for a cuddle.

Scrum

I played hooker (union) for a short while. Right up until someone stood on my face and broke my nose for a second time.

Was a winger after that. Seemed safer

**MickS** · 8th January 2013, 10:21 PM

Scrums in RL nowadays are a joke...and to hear a referee give a scrummaging lesson - telling a winger who is standing in for the prop to get his arm over whilst the half back puts the ball at the locks feet - and yells "out" - is a slap in the face to real forwards. Love the union scrums.

**Bigbjorn** · 9th January 2013, 08:52 AM

First you will need to learn to tackle. A Rugby League tackler needs to stop the player, put him on the ground and kill the ball. Preferably knock the wind out of him on the way. Rugby Union tackles are far gentler. Melbourne football doesn't have tackles, just a form of loving embrace. Forwards need to learn to be a ball distributor by developing ability to stand in the tackle and slip the ball (preferably) to an unmarked player.

Scrums and the play the ball are no longer contests for the ball thus taking a lot of skills and interest out of the game. Scrums used to be extremely violent affairs with plenty of rough stuff. George Piggins won the 1971 grand final for South Sydney with his skill at winning the ball in the play the ball. These changes were made at the insistence of the TV broadcasters who wanted to take "delays" out of the game.

Rugby League is a far rougher and tougher game than either of the other major football codes. I remember a captain of Valleys telling a new recruit from Rugby Union that he will need looking after for a while as "coming from Union you will not be tough".

I can't imagine that the standard of either Rugby code will be high in Tasmania.

**pop058** · 9th January 2013, 06:05 PM

one man trying to push 2 men up 3 mens bums

**Disco44** · 9th January 2013, 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

First you will need to learn to tackle. A Rugby League tackler needs to stop the player, put him on the ground and kill the ball. Preferably knock the wind out of him on the way. Rugby Union tackles are far gentler. Melbourne football doesn't have tackles, just a form of loving embrace. Forwards need to learn to be a ball distributor by developing ability to stand in the tackle and slip the ball (preferably) to an unmarked player.

Scrums and the play the ball are no longer contests for the ball thus taking a lot of skills and interest out of the game. Scrums used to be extremely violent affairs with plenty of rough stuff. George Piggins won the 1971 grand final for South Sydney with his skill at winning the ball in the play the ball. These changes were made at the insistence of the TV broadcasters who wanted to take "delays" out of the game.

Rugby League is a far rougher and tougher game than either of the other major football codes. I remember a captain of Valleys telling a new recruit from Rugby Union that he will need looking after for a while as "coming from Union you will not be tough".

I can't imagine that the standard of either Rugby code will be high in Tasmania.

Hear Hear Hoges.When the wallabies were challenged to a game by the kangaroos for charity, they would not accept the challenge.One half was to be played Union the second half...league.
Now ain't that interesting on the wallabies part.I played both and I know which is the toughest..league.When the wallabies won the world cup back in the 1990's, their tackling coach was Randall from Manly Warringah and it showed.Now what's next from the " If in doubt kick out" people?The game is spoiled by whistle happy referees stopping the game all the time.Rugby League referees suffer from blindness from time to to time but in the main keep the game rolling.
John.

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