"I've heard that name Williams before" - When it comes to Wales rugby, they'll always be at least 3 people called Williams, Davies, Evans and Jones :)

As an Englishman it's hard for me to like this video but you earned it. Wales vs England (especially at Cardiff) is probably the biggest fixture in the Northern Hemisphere. The Principality Stadium is right in the heart of Cardiff (unlike most other stadiums) so the whole City becomes a rugby arena on match day. Rugby is Wales national sport but England are the bigger nation, plus you get all the historic ancient conflict rising from almost 1000 years of on/off war between the 2 countries dating back to the Anglo Saxons. The UK nations really do love to hate each other but in Rugby there's always SO much respect. You watch a game in mixed seating, rival fans next to each other, drinking beer, applauding good play from both sides and having a laugh and taking the piss with the opposition fans. It's a truly amazing experience. Rugby is a thugs game played by gentlemen. Looking forward to you watching and enjoying the last round of games.

From a Wales fan, seeing a perspective from across the pond is awesome! Thanks, Diolch

I'm hugely impressed by the speed of your understanding of the game from your early videos until now. As an Englishman living in Wales for 20 years the pressure and enjoyment of these occasions is brilliant regardless of the result. I'm a big American Football fan as well but the brutality and skill of rugby will, for me, never be surpassed. Well done, great reaction posts.

Don’t forget the Rugby World Cup is this year.

I respect the effort your putting in to learn this amazing game. Your doing great so far. From a Welshman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Your grasp on the game as a newbie is unbelievably impressive. You'd make a good 10

The Celts ( Wales ,Ireland ,Scotland ) support three teams, their home team, in my case Pontypridd, their national team and whoever is playing England.

G'day Dan, I'm really enjoying your videos mate. Love the new video format. You are far from ignorant. Your interpretations are nearly always spot on. Keep up the good work. Cymru am byth!

The scrum was not because of injury , the ball was held up and England lost possession

6:10 once you make a tackle you must roll away to allow the player with the ball to place it back to his team

I'm a Welsh man it's awesome to see an American enjoying one of the best if not the best sport in the world

5:57 Yep, 7 did not move away fast enough and slowed down the exit of the ball from the ruck. 8:00 You always have to use your arms when tackling, it's a safety measure. Instead of interrupting the game the ref awards an advatage to Wales which allows more risky plays, such as kicking the ball to the wing. 12:33 Anyone can pick up the ball and run. Usually the scrum half (9) does that, that's his role. 13:59 That's a knock on, but because Wales gets the ball the ref let the game go, instead of interrupting it and award a scrum to Wales. They are playing with an advantage (in the case of a knock on the advantage is shorter. It ends when the ball is kicked, passed or the player gains 5 meters). 17:20 You're right, most of the times those "pick and drive" are made to involve more defensive players and create holes in the defensive line. 90% of the tries are scored because of teamwork, rather than individual actions. It's like an iceberg, you see just what is above the water, but most of it is below. 19:14 In this case it's not a mistake. In a 4 v 2 moving the ball near the sideline would be risky. 22:05 No. In case of an injury the game keeps going, the ref can stop it if the injury is serious, or if the injured player is in a dangerous position (near the action). I'm not 100% sure what happend here. In my opinion Wales lost briefly possession of the ball but both teams weren't able to play it because it was still contended. That's called a "turnover". The ref awards a scrum against the team that had the ball (here Wales lost it, England gained, ball is contended, none can play it, scrum for Wales). 23:30 England scrum didn't hold its position. Rotating the scrum, not pushing straight, collapsing the front row is a foul play. There are many rules about scrums. 25:00 Yep, you're right!

It's really impressive how quickly you've got a feel for a lot of the aspects of the game (particularly in the AB highlights vid). I've seen a lot of your other rugby reactions and it's pretty cool watching how much you've learned in a short period since watching the game for the first time. Thanks for taking a dive into rugby and spreading a bit of rugby joy around. You enjoy the live 6N games today? Also, as someone else said - a kickstarter or patreon for a ticket to a game in Japan later this year would be a good idea :)

absolutely love it, a great series of videos. I watched two or three of your videos this afternoon and your excitement + learning curve is great to watch!

I'm an American who picked up rugby in college. I saw your first rugby reaction video and then going to this, it's real impressive how quickly you've come to understand the game. It's also great to see how much you obviously enjoy it too. Cool video!

Your notion on the advantage rule is correct, but the decision to go back to the original penalty is made by the ref, dependant on what advantage or lack of advantage gained by the side infringed upon.

Although we went metric years ago we still use both systems, yards in rugby and football, meters in athletics, milk in litres, pints in the pub, it just kinda works. Really enjoying your interest in the game although im a rugby league fan. Your far from ignorant my friend. Well wishes from northern England. Edit, you might enjoy "rugby hits, till i collapse"

Coming from half English half welsh rugby fan this video is really dope. Love the reaction the longer build ups to highlight plays and must say for someone not familiar with rugby you understand so much of the game intuitively. More of this please!

This fixture (wales vs england) is so historic and there’s such a huge rivalry, would love for you to get to know the more general side of rugby for example different rivalries and the passion some nations have (particularly the welsh our anthem can be bone chilling). Love the videos

As a welsh man that game was one of the best days of my life 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

And we were singing, Hymns and arias, Land of my Fathers, 'Ar hyd y nos Get in there Wales! Bring on the World Cup!

Very good commentary mate. Excellent understanding of this complex game. Thumbs up!

Excellent video ... I really enjoyed it. Your comments are really good and your conclusions are also very good for someone who hasn't been brought up with the game. It can be a bit complicated and confusing, even for long time fans, but you are doing great job. Keep up the good work.

Wales vs England is always a titanic match every year. As a Welsh fan I'm glad Wales got the edge this time. Just found your videos, as a long time rugby fan it's interesting to see someone's opinion and conclusions as their learning the game with little help.

As long as a maul maintains forward momentum they can continue holding the ball in. Opponents must enter the maul from the back, not the side of the maul.

I really enjoyed that reaction, you ask excellent questions and have gained a very good understanding of the game very quickly.. My heart was pounding watching the game again even though I knew we won lol

I've played rugby from 4 years old, consider myself well versed in the rules, understanding the little nuances...but man! I am impressed with, not only how quickly you are picking it up, but how well you appreciate the skills and details.

Couldnt of put it better myself it was BEAUTIFUL from a very proud still drunk Welshman

You’re not so ignorant, mate, cracking job! Scrums have been ruined by the Health & Safety mob, they are now too soft. In the past the two halves of the scrum would crash together, not gently kiss as they do now and there would be more aggressive pushing. Of course there are less serious injuries now, and that is as it should be. Rugby players are in a class if there own. When you see a footballer screaming in agony and rolling about, just because an opponent tackled him, it just shows what soft babies they are compared to real men, Rugby players! Cheers, from England.

This is my 4th or 5th time re watching this video... man really hope you come back love the content

I found your first video an hour ago and have loved your journey. I hope you realised you are now a member of a special international sporting clan. As a Welshman living in Italy during lockdown I've thoroughly enjoyed watching your education. When it's all clear come over and feel our love of the game.

This guy knows more about the game than Michael Cheika. Hilarious.

hey man i much prefer these longer videos, as others have said its great seeing you get immersed, even in the more conventional 'boring' parts of the game. I was thinking maybe you could make your video cam like a tiny tiny bit smaller, just to see more of the game. Love the videos!

Love that ur trying to understand the game. I am a Welshman living in CA and miss my national game so much, played this game from 6 yrs old to 20 yrs old when I broke my neck and it finished my career. Keep it up as I will be watching more of ur content.

Only just found your channel but I am excited to watch more! I hope I can help with some of the scrum calls. Its tough for a ref to call with 100% accuracy who the offending team is when a scrum needs to be reset (why its often reset a few times before a penalty is called) as he can only see one side, but normally it comes down to the scrum being unstable and therefore unsafe. Also normally one of the props buckles and causes the scrum to collapse which can result in a penalty for the other team.

In a maul, you must enter from behind the furthest back foot of your teammate already in the maul. You must come in to the maul from a central line and not from the side. Side entry is a penalty. Once the maul is formed, the attackers must be moving forwards. If the momentum is stopped 2 times, they must play the ball out of the ruck otherwise they lose the maul and the other team gets to put in at the resulting scrum. Once the maul is formed, the defending players can stay where they are, so you'll sometimes see an opponent standing backwards in the middle of the maul. You can "swim" through the maul to get to the other side and tackle the ball carrier. You must enter the maul legally to do this and move through the middle. If a defender deliberately collapses the maul by falling to the ground and the other team trips over him it will be a penalty. If the attacking team detaches from the players in front and then re-attach (notice there are blockers and the ball is at the back of the maul) then it is a penalty to the other team.

I think a lot of British people would benefit from watching your video. I think many people watch the 6 Nations without really understanding what the penalties are for.

I as someone born and raised in South Africa but now living here in the USA, have to say thank you are watching rugby in a way that shows why it is called the beautiful game, most of the people that react to rugby are into the so called big hits, which I agree are a part of rugby but really not the main focus of rugby the fluid style you want to watch is what rugby is about. You are in for a treat in September when the rugby world cup is being played. Keep up the good work and thank you again.

I just want to say that I'm really happy that USA are adopting Rugby more. It's an amazing sport and I'm excited to see USA take it up a notch eventually. You guys already have an amazing 7s team! Edit: and I'm also really impressed at your understanding of the game, coming from a Welshman that should mean somehing! Everything you're saying is correct. I have friends here in the UK that prefer football (Soccer) but still have no clue about this little stuff in Rugby. Good knowledge, mate! You've earned a subscriber!

19:54 no not a mistake as the man on the wing has the touch line to battle with as well and in the middle he is more likely to retain the ball

Shame you didn't hear The Welsh Anthem. PLEASE put in 2 Wales v England 2013 " to see what it means to The Welsh...:)

Really enjoyed your enthusiasm into a sport that you didn’t know about, eager to learn, made for entertaining and wholesome content, which i thoroughly enjoyed keep it up!

Amazing showcase of knowledge, practically got everything correct, or near enough. You may have started doing this since this video, but watch the try reviews as well as the tackle reviews, both for good plays both attacking and defensive, but also seeing decisions sometimes be called wrong is another great way to learn the rules.

You have to watch the England v Scotland game from yesterday. It must have been the best match ive ever watched

So proud mate, enjoy this beautiful sport, hard to watch as an England fan but beautiful sportsmanship anyway, well done to Wales

Hey man, I just watched a few of your videos on rugby from the first one to this one and I just love how much your knowledge about the sport, it’s rules and the way it’s played. Well done lad

Welshman watching in 2021 and I have to say you got the grasp of this game much quicker than most.

A thoughtful video that poses some excellent questions. With regard to the incident at 19 minutes: No, I don't believe it is a mistake. As you allude to, Red 14 (North) makes his decision to hold onto possession and adjust his line inwards a fraction of a second before your freeze-frame, when White 15 (Daly) is still uncommitted to tackling him and free to tackle Red 12 (Parkes). Parkes is on the wing in this play but he is a centre, not a winger. He's in the team on the basis of his strength and game intelligence, but he's not a particularly strong finisher. In a 1-on-1 the smart money is on Daly to make the tackle on Parkes. If that happens, North can't be sure that he'll be able to help; he may be tackled in the act of passing, or impeded some other way that prevents him reaching the next breakdown in time. Should he fail to do so - with no other teammates nearby - Parkes will be forced to either relinquish possession, or concede a penalty. On the other hand, North knows that if he takes the ball into a tackle himself, Parkes will still be on his feet and free, with a good chance of forming a ruck and securing the ball for the next phase. The English defence is still stretched following the quick move from left to right effected by the long pass from Red 10 (Biggar) so North gambles that it will not have fully re-aligned even after one more phase. This is exactly what happens and Wales score off the next phase, full justifying North's decision. It is a decision indicative of Wales' low-risk, conservative mindset; trusting that they will be able to deliver one more phase, and waiting for a better opportunity. In this instance, Wales score off the 34th phase; a remarkable number. Given the dominance of modern defences, to go that many phases without making an error is hugely impressive. In the next game, they scored another try off 20+ phases. It's a cornerstone of their style.

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Brilliant - your observations are great, I'm thinking differently about tactics and I've been watching for years.

Spot on. Good analysis. Your comments about George North not passing and risking a close pass was on the money.

The last scrum was because of a failure of the ball to exit the ruck where Wales had forward momentum

When he says the Dragons, he is referring to the Newport Gwent Dragons, which are a welsh regional team, because he was talking about Cory Hill, who plays for them

Being in lockdown it was great watching this all over again. Ig you have really grasped the game but stop asking questions so we all keep shouting yes, yes that’s right and you can’t hear!😂

Last few minutes, England weren’t driving straight in the scrum which led to the scrum turning so the ref rewarded an advantage. An advantage allows the play to continue as the right team have the ball, however, they have a chance to play it risky and if they mess up and lose the ball they can try again from the location of where the incident occurred. Advantages only last for a certain amount of time so that they don’t have the ball for 10 mins and then they mess up and have to go all the way back.

NICE. Go Wales! (from a kiwi)

13:16 yes anyone can pick the ball up from the back of a ruck. They can either kick the ball out the back of the ruck (normally if they are trying to get away from there own try line. You can pick the ball up out of a ruck and run with the ball(a pick and go). Finally you can pass it out of the back of the ruck usually to spread the ball wide.

Loves the video. Think your format is about right. Watching the last round of games from the Six Nations will really offer up a contrast in style with England v Scotland being a try fest and Wales v Ireland more like an arm wrestle.

Ur knowledge of rugby has grown so much it’s fascinating. Well done

the Dragons (Newport Gwent Dragons) are a Welsh rugby club based in Newport, South Wales.

Wales V England clip - Cory Hill TRY. You ask if it was a mistake for the No14 not to pass the ball to No12? No. He did the right thing. Look to the back field. You can see defenders coming in to cover the first defenders. If he had passed the ball the No12 would have been isolated and possibly pushed into touch. By going in alone, the No14 had the No12 at hand to help cover the ball and form a ruck protecting the ball from the defenders as the No14 had set the ball back (recycling the ball). If you then watch on, the English defenders had to run from one side of the field to the other. This has to be done quickly but but you must keep your shape and reduce the gaps. The English defenders came too far creating a space which the Welsh No 4 exploited by crashing in at an angle (against the natural angle of the defenders) and his momentum carried him over to score. This was a long, patient and skillful series of plays from the Welsh which had drawn a penalty from the English (playing advantage) so if the welsh had not scored a try, the referee would have called the play back for a kickable penalty (field goal). The "pick and drive" tactic is designed to "suck" defenders in so that the attackers can exploit space out wide. One notable point in this passage of play concerns the No 15, Liam Williams. He was tackled by his opponent but not held. When tackled, you have to "offload" to a teammate or set up a ruck. He was isolated on his own with no immediate support. What he did was very clever. He placed the ball on the ground. Took his hands away (released the ball in the tackle) but then picked it up again to move forward where he was again tackled bu this time had support so another ruck was formed and another phase started. This was a tremendous series of phases that the Welsh went through and it is a very hard thing to achieve as so many mistakes from handling errors, ball placement in the tackle, good defence or interceptions can occur. Loved watching this!

You made some great comments and I'm glad you enjoyed our national sport. You asked why the winger didn't pass to his outside. You thought that might be to ensure the ball wasn't't lost, which is a great call. Much more difficult to defend when you have to run round the ruck to come back onside. Other problem was George had the ball under his right arm so he could fend off first tackle with his left hand making the pass very difficult to the outside with England player in position to make a possible tackle or interception. Keep on watching and support the Eagles. Cymru am byth

Expected this to be just another video of you in the corner nodding smiling and occasionally laughing. Good video man.

A scrum is called a scrum because the words “assault” and “battery” were already taken....the main things you look for in a scrum are constant binding of the props on each other and straight body/push towards the opposition....if a prop puts his hand on the ground he is penalised for dropping the bind and illegal support. The last penalty advantage given by The ref when Wales scored the last try is because the England loose head doesn’t adjust his body as Wales scrum drives forward and to the left....the English prop ends up pushing sideways and drops his bind.....the referee indicates advantage to Wales as they had the ball....knowing you have penalty advantage, teams usually try a high risk move as if they lose the ball they will get a penalty anyway

Wales are often associated with dragons but the reference to ‘the dragons’ at around 16:50 was to the regional team called the dragons that some of the Wales squad play for when they aren’t playing for Wales. (Out of interest the Dragons are absolutely awful and by far the worst of the professional regional teams in Wales)

At 23:27, is penalty advantage to Wales from illegal scummaging from the #17 english front rower (tight-head prop). You can see that at some point, the scrum starts rolling to the left side, and that is because the english front rower "explodes". That is, that the english front rower loses his binding to the scrum and gets "stand up". So, that is where the advantage comes from, and as it is an illegal scrummaging offense, its punished with a penalty. So, from there, Wales has the chance to play the advantage and try to score via a try or a drop goal, or if the advantage goes to nowhere, they have the chance either to kick at goal, kick to touch for playing a line out, play a new scrum, play a quick tap (little kick touch from the guy having the ball on his hands to himself and continue playing) or resume play with a tap (little kick touch to the ball in the ground and continue playing with a set play). In all penalty game resume options but the scrum, the english team must retract 10 meters away from the ball before it goes in play, or if they are to close to their in-goal line, they must retract behind the in-goal line, or if the play resumes too quick for them to retract 10 meters, they cannot play the welsh carrier until they got defensively in-side.

Love the idea of playing longer clips, the hits videos are good, but you nailed it when you said about getting a better feel for the flow of the game. as a Welshman, I feel pretty good about you choosing this game :D :D :D

Are you planning to start and coach a Sunday League Team? Excellent video and analysis.

I like your idea, highlight vids offen cut out most of the interlinking build up to a try.

You get this game of rugby so well. Would love to watch a full match with you.

This is highly entertaining. I'm a Welshman so by definition I enjoyed a win against our arch rivals! But, I have loved your enthusiasm to learn what must be a baffling looking sport to you. We're brought up with the sport as it's our national game and we take our understanding for granted. But, you have learned quickly and at at 14:30 you said, 'It's a battle'. Yep, that's Wales v England every year and it's just the best sport in the world on match day!

You should look at videos of The welsh player Shane Williams, he was one of our best players. For a rugby player he was small in stature but could out run most of the bigs guys on the field.

Hi Mate. One thing you must bear in mind is that Wales have a total population of 3.2 M vs a total population of England being 64M. Cymru an byth

Amazing review man. I am actually welsh and cried after this game. Amazing

The ‘Pick & Go’ is often used to recycle players buried at the bottom of the ruck. So for example, if the numbers are on for going wide but the scrum-half is in the ruck, we’ll pick and go to recycle him out for the next phase. Another example would be if the kicker ‘fly-half’ is in the ruck but you’re within drop-goal range, you’ll need a pick & go to get him set. The greatest example of these is the very final moments of the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final. We (England) needed Jonny Wilkinson to score a drop-goal but we were too far out. Matt Dawson (scrum-half) picked and went to gain territory but now was at the bottom of the ruck. So the forwards went again to recycle Dawson because he’s the best player to pass to Jonny. Jonny hit that drop-goal off his NON-DOMINANT foot in the final of the RWC! 😍

15:55 that's exactly what Wales are doing, forcing England to commit numbers to constant Welsh runners who just pick and go. It opens up gaps in the defensive line eventually, either like the Bledisloe New Zealand try out wide or like the English try earlier in this game where the pillars (players guarding by the ruck) aren't switched on. Conor Murrayis an expert at spotting soft spots to pick up easy tries by the ruck

The dragons is a smaller regional team inside of Wales along with the scarlets the Cardiff blues and the ospreys!:) the best of those teams come together to play for the country.

So just in general you have to be on your feet to play rugby, so yes when you've been tackled you can't crawl forwards forever. But what you do get is one movement forward before presenting the ball back to your team. So that can be one roll, or one movement to stretch out and score the try either figuratively before presenting backwards, or literally placing the ball over the line. In the case at the end the player hadn't been tackled, but you still can't just randomly play the ball on the ground. I'd say he was in the process of standing up and dived over the line. The distinction about whether the player has been tackled or not is the player has to release the ball if they've been tackled, but can just stand up holding the ball and continue if they haven't been tackled. Usually releasing means presenting the ball back to your team and the scrum half passes it away, but you can release the ball, stand up and then pick up the ball and continue forwards. Not usually seen in 15s but more commonly seen in 7s. Japan made great use of it in the 2019 World Cup.

Great video! You ask all the right questions.

Referee decisions at the ruck are often like the ladder in WWE wrestling match..random third element, could go either way lol often a cause of controversy in tight games.

13:55 if you want to see some great interceptions watch the recent scotland v england game, finn russel does an amazing interception as does mcinally

Imagine a line drawn perpendicularly through the ball from touch line to touch line - this defines the offside line. So, if you pass forward, you are passing to a player who is 'offside'. For a lineout, the line is between the lines of players in the lineout and the 'backs' must be 10 metres from this imaginary line. At a lineout, the backs who are attacking, they line up at a 45 degree angle so they give themselves more running space. The defending backs will line up flat along this 10 metre line to reduce the running space. For a scrum, maul and ruck, the back foot of the scrum, maul and ruck defines the offside line. When the ball is kicked forward, the offside line is define by the kicker of the ball and when he runs forward, the offside line advances with him - although a player or players who was behind the ball when it was kicked, they are onside and they can run forward to put their players back onside - the attacking team players who are in front of the player who kicked the ball forward, they are meant to run back to put themselves onside. This is, in my opinion, a better way of understanding what is going on in the game. This imaginary line tells why coming in from the side of a ruck or maul is offside - you must come into the maul and ruck from an onside position (the back foot thingy).

I was in Scotland a couple years ago to watch Wales Scotland in the 6 nations, sat in a pub on the Sunday my mate and I had this really nice group of Americans sit next to us and were talking about the game we were waiting on TV. One of the best but weirdest experience trying to explain rugby to a group of people who have NEVER heard if it before! Their reactions to it was priceless

It was probably good for George North to run into those two English defenders in the second clip rather than passing it out wide because if you go too wide the English could push the Welsh player out of play causing an English line out

Really like your reactions and respect you have for our beloved game. Enjoyed your explanation on your first impression to now. Best part is it's about the game as a whole and not just the tackles 👌

You leaned a remarkable amount about this game in a relatively short period of time. Nice job man

I’m impressed by how much we have picked up about Rugby in the limited time you have been watching it. To try to cover a couple of your questions: when the referee calls a penalty advantage you do have a play to nothing situation, where if you try something and it doesn’t work you get to come back from the penalty. (Win Win situation). At the 26 min mark in your video you ask whether George North is making a mistake taking on multiple defenders: Looking at it he doesn’t have a lot of choice in that moment, and as a player George is a big winger in the Jonah Lomu mould (He’s the size of a flanker with the outright speed of a winger). The play at this point would be to possible commit two of three defenders to stop him, allowing him to off load to a player outside that is now unmarked and free to score.

no7 was the tackler, as the tackler, you need to move away as fast as possible when the ruck is formed. If not, you prevent the offense to clear the ball fast. It all depends on the referee that is running the game. But to me this was a bit unfair from the ref, he was still trying to clear. This is how the game goes!!!

Correct on your understanding of that penalty. A tackler must release the player Also a player who's tackled must release the ball

Actually so refreshing to see someone who actually has done research, like he’s new to this sport and he’s already got some Squidge Rugby like analysis

Nice job. Clearly a intelligent person you’re pretty spot on in your analysis. Only thing is that the scrum wasn’t a prescribed restart after injury, it was for an infraction by England that coincided with the injury.

I always enjoy watching your videos, and I agree with others, you must join us all in Japan for the greatest show on earth! Forget the dumb people who talk about nationalism and patriotism....Sure we fly our flags and cheer for our team, but in rugby, we are all brothers and sisters, and we all sit together and drink beer together, because we all love the greatest game.

A very good match to watch is The most recent Ireland vs New Zealand.

2020 goose bumps watching this again and I’ve watched the whole game at lest three times

Dude, you need to go and see a live game. The energy and intensity from the field is palpable, even in the stands. Its fantastic.

Impressive understanding of the game from just watching a highlights reel and listening to commentary. Some of the nuances of the game keep us interested after a lifetime of watching and playing.. it’s an awesome sport. You had lots of good questions - I’ll answer just one. A maul is formed when a tackled player doesn’t go to ground, but instead a unit is formed to drive forward. In modern rugby this is most often off the back of a line-out. The referee will call a mall at which point neither team is allowed to pull the mall down, and it must keep moving in one direction or another. If the mall is pulled down a scrum will be awarded to the innocent team, or if it stops making progress in either direction the referee will call “use it” and the team in possession must either resume making progress or move the ball out of the mall. The defending team can try to steal the ball by “ripping it” from the the player in possession or driving the mall backwards forcing the attacking team to go to ground and give up possession. That’s probably an imperfect and incomplete explanation, but off the top of my head it covers most bases. Keep enjoying the games! Was a cracking 6N!

Please put in the 1 minute 30 second video of " Welsh National Anthem just before Wales beat England 30 - 3.Saturday 16th march 2013 " to see what this means to The Welsh...

In reference to your question at around 19:30, the problem with passing out to the winger in almost any situation is that a successful tackle often results in the winger being tackled into touch, subsequently the defending team would have a line out. Basically it is often not worth the risk

That kick with the 15 is called a up and under....Gee , you learning fast.I like your vids!