Rugby: Skills, Tactics & Rules

by TonyWilliams (Author), Gordon Hunter (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $8.28

  Second only to soccer as an internationally loved field game, the hard-hitting sport of rugby is growing in popularity in North America. This spirited guide to the game is packed with superb, full color, action photographs of great players from around the world demonstrating fantastic rugby tackling, scrummaging, rucking, mauling, kicking, lineouts and running. The authors, experts with international experience as players and coaches, describe the many tactical and skill aspects of the game: Scrums; Passing; The Lineout; Kicking; Rucks; Backline Attack; Mauls; Blind-Side; Attack; Tackling; The Try; Backline Defence; Rules; and Running.

  High-impact photographs and concise, no-nonsense text combine for an action-packed guide to the modern, skillful game that is top-class rugby. Rugby Skills, Tactics & Rules will excite, entertain and enthrall players at all levels and rugby fans young and old. A 32 page section details the rules, plus sidebars throughout relate great, historic moments from international rugby play.

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $3.25

  Rugby Skills, Tactics and Rules is a highly illustrated and straightforward discussion of the key components of rugby union - player positions, tactics needed to win, different kinds of set plays, passes and moves, together with a user-friendly glossary. It features stunning photography from the 2007 World Cup to illustrate the very latest skills and tactics used at the highest level, and will enthral rugby fans of all ages and players at all levels.