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 ...

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 ...

And thus, the war on the scrum continues, and it is by any estimation a struggle for the very soul of rugby union. No phase of play in the code exemplifies rugby’s values and mythos more than ...

In rugby league a scrum is a way of re-starting play after: The ball has gone out to touch The ball has been knocked on A forward pass Play is too dangerous to continue Not everyone can join a scrum.

Picture: Tyler Miller/Gallo Images Stormers Director of Rugby John Dobson was pleased with a major improvement in their scrum performance that assisted them to edge the Bulls 19-16 in their wet ...

Two packs of players, straining every muscle for every inch of opposition territory they can claim. Of course, it's the scrum. It is used for restarting play after the following: The ball has been ...

And would they even all need to be rugby players? Could we ... only to be pushed backwards by an Irish scrum powered mainly by Jedward’s hairspray. Or perhaps we go the whole hog and put ...

One of the big phrases in French rugby is "No scrum, no win", and it's a motto that will ring true for Ireland this week as Les Bleus come to Dublin. If Ireland’s scrum has a repeat performance ...

converted by Maitland from a wide angle. An eighth try followed from a high kick by scrum-half Andy Harley. The bouncing ball was kicked over the line by Allan and he then dropped on it for his ...

It took half an hour before the scoreboard was troubled and it was the Italians who got things going when Giovanni Montemauri landed a penalty following Ulster’s scrum ... Re on an angle saw ...