The scrum is a way to restart play after certain stoppages, like a forward pass or knock-on, or when the ball becomes unplayable in a ruck or maul.

As a collision sport, rugby union has a relatively high overall injury incidence, with most injuries being associated with contact events. Historically, the set scrum has been a focus of the sports ...

The 20-minute red card may well make rugby a more entertaining sport but will it also encourage teams to revert to a more upright tackling style? And if the scrum option is removed from a free ...

The opposing scrum-half has to wait until the ball is out of the scrum before making a tackle for the ball. If they don't, the referee will award a penalty. Most offside decisions in rugby union ...

This is the moment rugby players scrummed down to push an ambulance of field to get a player who suffered a 'series of seizures' on the pitch to hospital. Footage posted online shows more than 15 ...

If they haven’t done so with a string of unpopular executive orders in the past month, which have had a tremendous impact on the globe’s geo-political stability, the Americans really peeved ...

World Rugby has implemented three law changes ... will be to laws around free-kicks. For free-kicks, teams can no longer opt for a scrum. Instead, they are required to tap or kick the ball to ...

One of the big phrases in French rugby is "No scrum ... met in 2024 - they look to go after teams in the contest, once the ball has been fed. "The scrum just seemed to go away from us, so we ...

But generally the Stormers scrum is the dominator rather ... of power of the last meeting between these teams it would not be the first time in rugby history that such a thing has happened.