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My topic is **__Sport.__** My Sport that i have chosen is..**Rugby League** (no surprise) Rugby League is a __full contact sport,__ where 2 teams of 17 players oppose each other on a rectangular field. Like Rugby Union, it has been described as the //toughest, most physically demanding sports of all sports.//
 * So what is Rugby League?**

Each team tries to get the ball to their opponents try-line. There are 6 tackles for each set, and after the 5th tackle, a player should kick the ball. After each tackle, the player that has been tackled rolls the ball under his feet. There is always a player behind him who picks the ball up. This is called **Dummy half** and it is the **Hooker's** role to pick the ball up.
 * How do you play Rugby League?**

There are many positions. People wear shirts with their numbers on the back showing what position they play. Here are they (off my memory)- 1. Fullback 2/5.. Wingers - **The furthest positions to the Left or Right** 3/4. Centres - **To the inside of the wingers** 6/7. halves (five-eighth, halfback) - **Play in the middle, usually set up plays** (playmakers) 8/10. Front rowers **- Big men, strong and dont need to be fast. Make the most hit-ups (running at the defence)** 9. Hooker - **Always out of dummy-half** 11/12. Second Rowers - **Also very strong people** 13. Lock Forward 14/15/16/17 - Substitues (can be any position, but don't start on the field)

In Rugby League, you can score points by __grounding the ball over your opponents try line__. This is known as a TRY and is worth 4 points. After your team scores a try, your designated goal kicker gets the chance to put 2 more points on the scoreboard with a conversion, with the length depending on where your team scored the try.

My Favourite team is the ROOSTERS <3. All of the players from the Roosters are my favourite, but if I had to choose a non-Roosters player, right now my favourite would be either **Corey Norman** (Broncos), **Aidan Sezer** (Titans) or **Daly Cherry-Evans** (Manly)

My most memorable game was the __Roosters vs Tigers 2010 semi final__. The Roosters had to win to go through to the Preliminary finals, but if the Tigers lost, they had another chance.Many people in my class know what happened (i bragged :P) but it was like this:

The Tigers were up 15 points to 2 (which means they were up by more than two converted tries) with 8 minutes to go and the Roosters came back to make it 15-14 to the tigers. Then with 1 minute to go (tigers were still leading), Jared Warea-Hargreaves (Roosters) lost the ball in a big hit from Simon Dwyer (Tigers). The Tigers had a scrum and surely all they had to do was just hold the ball, and on the last tackle, kick it into touch to win, but instead they lost the ball in the scrum. With 10 seconds to go, the Roosters gave it to Braith Anasta who kicked a field goal from 30 metres out to put the game into extra time. Both halves of extra time were played, with all the attempts on field goal missing, and the game went into unlimited Golden Point. In the 100th minute (20 minutes past full time), Shaun Kenny-Dowall (Roosters) intercepted a hail-mary pass from Liam Fulton (Tigers), and ran 80 metres to score in the corner, the Roosters winning 19-15 and going into the Preliminary finals. I swear, my mum was screaming at me because i kept jumping up and down on the couch :3 you can see it on [] it isnt blocked at school :P

[] - Rugby League - Wikipedia [Last Modified 3/6/12 12:46pm] My own memory?
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