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We offer a variety of betting methods on rugby tournaments. Choose the bet that suits you and place your winning rugby wager.
Top Try Scorer Betting – A wager when you predict the top scorer of the competition.
Match Betting - Odds on both teams to win the match.
Outright Winner – This is a bet on who you think will win the tournament
First Tryscorer - this is a bet on who will score first in the rugby game.
Last Tryscorer – this is a bet on the player who scores last in the rugby game.
First Team to Score – This is a bet on the first team to score in the rugby tournament.
Spread Betting on Rugby
We also offer spread betting on many of our rugby tournaments. Check out the spread betting odds and place your bet now.
Season’s Points – For this bet, a prediction is made on how many points each side will win during the course of a season.
Supremacy – Predictions are made on how many points one team would beat the other by.
Team Performance – Predictions are made on the overall performance of a team during a match.
Total Points – This is betting on the total number of points that will be scored during the game.
Rugby Union History
Rugby was developed from a game that was played at Rugby School in England. Rugby uses a ball that is shaped much like an American football. In rugby, two teams of fifteen or seven players (depending on the version played) are trying to score the most points. Points can be scored in various ways including some of the following: touching the ground over the opponent’s goal line with the ball in hand, a conversion play where a player kicks the ball at the goal line where the previous touch-down occurred kicking the ball above the crossbar and between the uprights of the field post. Scoring in rugby is similar to the rules of American football.
Major Rugby Unions
France
Australia
England
Ireland
New Zealand
Canada
South Africa
Wales
Argentina
Italy
Scotland
Glossary of Rugby Terms
Advantage – The period of time in which the non-offending side have the opportunity to gain sufficient territory to negate the need to stop the game due to infringement.
Ankle Tap – An ankle tap is a form of tackle.
Ball Back - If the ball enters touch, then play is restarted by a line-out at the point where the ball left the field of play.
Blitz Defence - The idea of this technique is to prevent the attacking team gaining any ground by tackling them behind the gain line and forcing interceptions and charged down kicks.
Conversion - If a team scores a try, they have an opportunity to "convert" it for two further points by kicking the ball between the posts and above the crossbar.
Drop Kick - A drop kick is when a player kicks the ball from hand and the ball touches the ground between being dropped and kicked.
Dump Tackle – The dump tackle is a tackling technique. The tackler wraps his arms around the ball carrier's thighs and lifts him a short distance in the air before forcibly driving him to the ground.
Flanker – Are also known as breakaways or wing forwards.
Forward Pass - A forward pass occurs when the ball fails to travel backwards in a pass. If the ball is not thrown or passed forward but it bounces forward after hitting a player or the ground, it is not a throw-forward.
Gain Line - The gain line is an imaginary line drawn across the centre of the pitch when there is a breakdown in open play, such as a ruck, maul or scrum.
Goal - A goal is scored when a player kicks the ball through the plane bounded by the two uprights and above the crossbar.
High Tackle - A high tackle is a form of tackle where the tackler grasps the ball carrier above the line of the shoulders.
Late Tackle - A late tackle is a tackle executed on a player who has already passed or kicked away the ball.
Mark - A mark is the place where the game will restart after a stoppage.
Off-Load Pass - A short pass made by a player being tackled before he reaches the ground.
Penalty - Penalties are awarded for serious infringements like dangerous play, offside and handling the ball on the ground in a ruck.
Place Kick - The place kick is a kicking style commonly used when kicking for goal.
Ruck – A Ruck is formed when the ball is on the ground and two opposing players meet over the ball. Rucks commonly form at tackles, but can form anywhere in the field of play where the ball is on the ground.
Scrum – In a scrum, the eight forwards from each team bind together and push against each other
Spear Tackle - A spear tackle is a dangerous tackle in which a player is picked up by the tackler and turned so that they are upside down.
Tackle - A tackle takes place when one or more opposition players grasp onto the ball carrier and succeed in bringing him/her to ground and holding them there.
Try – A try is the primary method of scoring. A try is worth five points.
Tunnel – When a scrum is formed, the gap between the legs of three players who form the front row is called the tunnel.
Up and Under – An up and under is a high short punt onto or behind the defending team.