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I've really enjoyed watching rugby this Olympics. I'm still learning how the game works but it's been fun to watch. -- nm

Posted by Krusty (aka Krustylu) Aug 10 '16, 07:22

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I still have 0 clue how they decide when one or more "plays" are run after time has run out. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 07:25 1
- From what I figured out it seems to be that if the team that is losing has the ball they let them keep going until they score or they turn it over. - Krusty Aug 10, 07:26
It's fun to watch, we've got a local Rugby League team we've gone to see a couple of times. - znufrii, dad. Aug 10, 07:24 5
- Then there's Australian Rules which is also different and the oldest of the three. -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 07:27 4
  - *makes hand-wavy motion*. Rugby was invented first, but later split into the union and league variants - Roger More Aug 10, 07:41 3
    - I could have sworn that I read yesterday that Australian Rules was the oldest but *shrug* -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 07:43
    - And "Union" is really just the original version that they had to give a name to later to differentiate it, right? -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 07:42 1
      - Yes. It was a split between the gentlemanly amateurs (union) and the working-class teams which went proferssional -- nm - Roger More Aug 10, 07:44
LYC: one of my older brothers played for Team Newfoundland in the Canada Games a few times -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 07:24 1
- Cool! I'm sure he's still sore. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 07:25
it's pretty simple, beat the shit out of the guy with the ball. -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 07:22 3
- My gf calls it Olympic Keep Away. I think of it more like kill the man with the ball. That was always fun to play as a kid. :-) -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 07:25 2
  - yeah, but we called it something very non politically correct. -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 07:29 1
    - Same -- nm - Volnelk Aug 10, 07:40

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