Tackle Rugby by Bonnie

Do you want to know how to play rugby?

Rugby is a winter sport. When you play rugby you have two teams who are trying to get the ball so they can get a try at the try line. You need to wear rugby boots, a mouth guard, shorts and a team t-shirt.

You need to pass close or someone in the other team could get the ball. You have to remember your position. If you get tackled try moving your way out and run to the try line and get a try. If you get a try you have to kick the conversion. A try is worth five points, a conversion is worth two and a penalty is worth three points. 

A conversion is when you have to kick the ball through the posts. If someone in the other team is going to get a try you have to run up and tackle them and try to get the ball. To get a try you have to be fast so no one can catch you. A penalty is if someone tackles you and holds you down for too long. You do another kick off and see which team gets it.

If someone throws the ball to you,  you have to keep an eye on the ball so you catch it. If someone passes the ball to you and you drop it in front of you thats called a knock on and you have to give it to the other team. 

You need to do a scrum if there's a knock on. A scrum is when your team has to push against the other team to get the ball. This is how you tackle: you dive down to someone in the other teams legs and then they fall down and drop the ball. If they don't, try grab it out of their hands.

That's how you play rugby.

By Bonnie