Is there any team game remotely as complicated as rugby ?

Question

Beats me how today's players can remember all the rules.

Answer 1

Rugby aint complicated its practically straight forward

Answer 2

No.

But you'll never get a player to admit that. Even after arguing all night about 1 of any number of rules.

I think explaining the offside rule in football to the girlfriend is simple. Try explaining offside in rugby to the players, coaches and ref's.

One problem is that no-one who plays has ever read the rules. They go by the way the game is played. It gotten so bad that if they actually played to the rules, the game would have to be abandoned.

Personally I think the written laws of rugby are clear, concise and good.

Now wait for the reaction to that.

Just please God don't let me have a Kiwi responding, what with the way they have mastered the 'grey area', I just couldn't take it.

Answer 3

Hurling.

I thought I had it all figured out. Pick the ball up on your little stick and either run with it on your stick or use it to pass the ball to your mate or smack it in the goal. Then I was watching one game and a guy just toe poked the ball into the goal. At that point I turned off. If they cant be bothered to decide whether to use the stick all the time or when they feel like it, then I cant be bothered watching

Answer 4

Cricket is probably more complicated than rugby, there r too many rules other than just hittin da ball, da rules change from different formats of da game. There r 3 formats of cricket, they all consists of basic rules but have additional rules for each format. There is no single person in da world who knos all the rules of cricket, coz there is so many of them!!!

Answer 5

What's complicated about Rugby? Get the ball, run up the oppositions end, put the ball down in their try area or kick it between the posts. Then there's just Line-outs and scrums to re-start and the difference between Rucks and Mauls. A few other basics and that's it. Simple. And Rugby league's even simpler.

Is Aussie rules actually the most popular sport in Australia? I've got an Aussie friend who swears blind that that 'Footie'

(Rugby League) is the national sport. That was certainly my experience in NSW too.

Personally I think American Football, Aussie Rules and Gealic sports are much more complicated. Hence they aren't played in many counties.

Answer 6

No  - I'm stumped.  Although I've never managed to follow a game of Gaelic Football, but then I wouldnt pretend to know the rules of that!

Answer 7

american football is more complicated than rugby. theres 6 bloody officials to try and sort it all out.

Answer 8

i think cricket is just as hard....^^

rugby and cricket have to be the two hardest sport games in the world

Answer 9

It'll be worse this season, because different tournaments are trialling different rules, so teams from the Premiership for example will be playing by one set of rules one week and maybe another set of rules the other.

Answer 10

I don't know if it's more complicated but there are a lot of rules.  The problem is that a lot of the rules are administered according to the refs interpretation and therefore can become confusing to any onlooker.  Add to that the personality of the refs - some are pedants and some need to inject their personality on the game.  So complicated, maybe, confusing most definitely.

As footnote I believe that referees should be schooled on the idea that rugby is a game that thrives on constant player action not constant stoppages so some ref can show how in control and important he is :-(

Answer 11

yeah, Aussie rules, the powers keep changing the rules every year and I can't seem to keep up with them.

Answer 12

Hockey is far far more complicated. im 18 and play rugby (scrum half) to date and have done for several years and ... its not rocket science as long as u have a good brain.

hockey is crazy my dad played it at premiership level for the army and there are sooo many rules to start with ...

hockey. 0_o

Answer 13

Rugby is not that hard, the basics are easy, but there all sorts of ridiculous laws that nobody really knows.  Once every few games you'll get pinged for something and not know what you got done for.

Not to mention all the law changes that the Northern Hemisphere teams decided not to implement this year.  So in the southern hemisphere, a ball thrown into a short lineout only has to be straight for the first 5m, but in the northern hemisphere it has to be straight the whole way.

Answer 14

Spare a thought for the poor referee.