TAG RUGBY

'Tag Rugby' is a game played by teams of seven players. Each player wears a belt that has two velcro tags attached to it, or shorts with velcro patches. The defenders have to pull one of the velcro tags from the ball-carrying attacking player, to force the player to pass the ball. In some forms, such as 'Mini Tag Rugby', each team has 6 "tags" in which to score a try, by grounding the ball on or over the opposing team's goal line.
The sport has become particularly popular in Ireland, run by both the Irish Rugby Football Union and the Irish Tag Rugby Association. Many companies pay for or sponsor company teams as a method of recreation hence this format of rugby's popularity.
Until 2003/2004 the RFU in its junior development program called ''The Three Stages of the Rugby Continuum'' encouraged the playing of ''Non-contact/touch rugby'' in its under-eights competition, although now promotes 'Mini Tag' instead.^[1]

Contents

OzTag

Wheelchair Power Tag Rugby

Further reading

Footnotes

OzTag

'OzTag' is a recreational sport that now has competitions running all over Australia, with the largest areas located in Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra. It is a game designed to be a non-contact form of rugby league. Like most versions of tag rugby a tackle is made when one of two velcro stripes, known as tags, is removed from the ball carrier's shorts. Players can pass and kick the ball and tries in Oztag are worth one point and there are no conversions.
Former St George Dragons Halfback Perry Haddock founded the hybrid sport while coaching the 1992 St George Jersey Flegg side which boasted Dragons first-grade coach Nathan Brown and National Rugby League board member Gorden Tallis.

Wheelchair Power Tag Rugby

'Wheelchair Power Tag Rugby' is a form of rugby which is played indoors by two teams of three wheelchairs each. It does not involve real physical contact and is played with a medium sized rugby ball.

Further reading

★ www.rugbyuniononline.com - the essential rugby website, tag rugby section

★ RFU pdf Mini Tag

★ The Rules of (Mini) Tag Rugby

★ Tag Rugby UK

★ A Mini Tag competition and pictures

★ Welcome to OZTAG

★ Wheelchair Power Tag Rugby

★ Irish Tag Rugby Association

★ Irish Rugby Football Union

★ Astro Tag Rugby

Footnotes

1. mini tag & tag rugby on the RFU website