Amazing rugby facts

In 2003 Australia beat Namibia( a developing rugby nation) 142 -0. This shows the difference in standard between major rugby nations and up and coming nations. New Zealand's Jona Lomu and south Africa's Bryan Habana have the record of most tries in a single world cup scoring 8 tries.

World wide rugby

Rugby is spreading fast and is now played in over 120 countries world wide. In most forms of the game it is played with 15 people a team though now there is a 7 a side game and only recently a 10 a side game. In the early days of rugby games could go on for days until someone scored a try.




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Emigration

The southern Hemisphere is working to try to stop leading players moving to Europe to play rugby.All these players are moving over to the Europe because it has the strongest base of rugby and they will get alot more games because of the locality of the teams in Europe, e.g.In southern Hemisphere professional rugby they play less games because alot of the games are between a South African team and an Australian or New Zealand team which require long flights,a hectic schedule and alot of travelling. This takes its toal on the players and many of them want to move to a less demanding schedule and in many cases more pay.The southern hemisphere national teams have started to put contracts on international players to make sure they play in the international games instead of being away playing in Europe.

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Intro

Welcome to my blog,

I am a Transition year student.I am doing my blog on World of rugby I hope to show how rugby developed and flourished around the world and how this was affected by the geography.

The beginning

Rugby started with a young british school boy (William Web Ellis) who decided to pick up a football and run while playing with his friends,and then rugby was born.It spread throughout the british empire and remains strongest in these areas such as New Zealand,Australia,South africa and the rest of the british commonwealth. The strongest rugby teams are the larger countries of the commonwealth.