Tag Rugby

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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]

1 OzTag
2 Wheelchair Power Tag Rugby
3 Further reading
4 Footnotes

[edit] 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, 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 NRL board member Gordon Tallis.

[edit] 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.