Pushover Try - a try scored by the forward pack as a unit in a scrum by pushing the opposition's scrum pack backwards across the tryline while dragging the ball underneath them. Typically scored from ...

Men's Six Nations Championship gets underway on January 31. Here's a crash course on the rules and origins of the 15-a-side ...

BBC Sport NI profiles Simon Easterby as he prepares to lead Ireland into the 2025 Six Nations as interim head coach.

"It's making life more difficult for them in terms of that law, in terms of you can't touch the nine within a metre of the ruck. When's the ... pieces may appeal to rugby purists, the game is ...

though the ban will be reduced to two games if he completes the World Rugby Coaching Intervention Programme. South African Vermeulen, 29, was cited for a "dangerous play in a ruck or maul" and ...

This is one the most important rules of rugby union. Only players standing on their feet are allowed ... The rules say that no player in a ruck can handle the ball. But if they do, the referee will ...

After Italy ruffled everyone’s feathers with it in February, by July the rule had been tweaked by World Rugby, with Law 16 now determining “a ruck commences when at least one player is on ...

When it comes to rules and regulations, the ruck is one of the more complex parts of rugby union. When a tackled player goes to ground, they must release the ball immediately. As soon as that happens, ...

Live video and text commentary of Ulster versus Zebre Parma in the United Rugby Championship at the Kingspan Stadium, Belfast.

After focus on blocking in autumn internationals officials will now be clamping down on tactics designed to slow down game World Rugby will ask ... close to the ruck to open up holes in the ...

Rusi Tuima picks from a ruck on the line after Joe Hawkins went close! Now the ball falls off the tee for Haydon-Wood. He picks it up and tries for the drop goal, but he sends it well, well wide.