rugby scores you can't have

[joggerjayne]

There are only 3 scores that a rugby team can't have at the end of a game.

What are they?

(is this too easy?)

[joggerjayne]

Does.

=0)

[Stephen_G]

IF you're playing Rugby League then you could have a score of

1 - 0
2 - 0
4 - 0

The drop goal in RL is only worth a point, t's the dark side of peanut hugging that has 3 points for the drop - hence England winning the World Cup 20 - 17 in 2003 with Johnny Wilkinsoff's effort.

That is a fact, knowledge is the bomb and I'm running away before I get lynched!!! Meep meep!!!!!

[Cakeboy]

Rugby is definitely Union, not that strange Northern sport with 26 men in flatcaps chasing a whippet

[Prudentia]

just been into my bottom drawer and binned the lot, never again will I succumb to the nightmare of knicker elastic. love and a free bare a??e to all lady adult abers, any of you join me??

[joggerjayne]

Judge N ... I think for the purposes of AB we have to assume that we are talking about Rugby Union, or it will get very confusing.

I'm trying to be an informed rugby watching girl, instead of a bimbo botty watcher. If I start spouting out rules from rugby league down at the pub, I'll look stupid.

[joggerjayne]

Pru ... it's the wrong time of year for binning your undies. I need my thongs to keep me warm.

[Catron]

You could always put 'rugby union' into your question - that would be less confusing still. :-)

[joggerjayne]

Or ... we could ignore Rugby League altogether.

[joggerjayne]

Wikipedia ...

The definitive encyclopedia.

Written by ... anybody with an axe to grind.

[Catron]

And then you would get people responding as though you might be asking about rugby league - as they have done here. Who is to know you mean RU if you don't say so?

Ok, I'm gone. :-)

[Stephen_G]

Yeah. Yeah.

*** HIDES BEHIND CATRON ***

Still love you jj xxx (if you see the light and embrace the skillful form of egg chasing)

[joggerjayne]

But no.kno ...

If, in Rugby League, you can score points one at a time ...

... then there are no scores that a team can't end up with.

So it is self evident that the question was about Rugby Union ...

... and the answer had to be 1, 2 or 4.

[jno]

erm, yeah, nokno, 2 had indeed been sent off. But NZ were too gentlemanly to profit from it; most of their points were scored when England had 15 in play.

[sqad617]

jayne....come on, up until Rugby Union became professional is was known as the "kick and clap" game......for obvious reasons, the touch kicking was applauded and in many games that is all that you say. In the 60's and 70's there was a technique in Union called "working the touchline", the ball was only let out to the backs in your opponents 25. Boring to the nth degree and thankfully that has now changed. Rugby League was a fast flowing expansive game, great Scottish and Welsh Union players turned to League, as did many Union players. League players come to mind.Neil Fox. Alex murphy....I could go on and on and where did the present coach of Wasps and assistent coach of Wales come from..Rugby League of course.

[osprey]

Rugby Union players have to have a wider range of skills than League players as they need to scrummage, ruck, maul and compete at line-outs something that League players never need to do especially so in the farce that League calls a scrum. ( Stands well back expecting a barrage of scathing comments from the League fraternity although how they will be able to argue those facts is beyond me ).

[sqad617]

Correct osprey, in League, the scrum restartsthe game, in Union it is an excuse to find a penalty that nobody wants and nobody understands...e.g why would someone collapse a scrum when HIS team are 5yds from the try line giving the defending side a penalty?.WHY?...in simple terms pleas

[sqad617]

Mon 22/12/08
16:55

C'mon lads...no answer to my question of the above, on this thread. Why pull down the scrum when you are five yards away fro your oponents try line?