World Rugby has announced three law changes in a ... which should reduce the amount of kick tennis in the game. It will also no longer be possible to choose a scrum from a free-kick.

World Rugby has implemented three law changes that ... team to move the ball and reducing the amount of back-and-forth ‘kick tennis’ that often slows the game. This change will kill the ...

Because it was so wet and muddy they hatched a plan to kick for touch as many times as possible The result was a mind-numbing 111 line-outs in 80 minutes. The tactics paid off - Wales won the match ...

A scrum will take place opposite to where the ball went out of play, 20 metres inside the pitch. The advantage is with the other team who didn't kick the ball to touch because they get the put-in at ...

Bourgeois nails the difficult extras for a two-score lead. A bit of kick tennis in the middle of the park ends with Stacey Flood ever-so-slightly overhitting her kick into touch as it lands on the ...

external "It is stodgy, it is kick tennis, it is quite negative and it is fine to eke out one-point victories, but when those games go against you - which they will at times - you are going to get ...

Ben Youngs: Steve Borthwick is risk-averse – England box-kick too much Former scrum-half believes team’s reliance on kick-heavy game is not giving individuals the licence to break free Save ...

Scotland had raised the intervention of referee Pierre Brousset in a review with World Rugby, feeling Russell was asked to kick from two metres wider than where Duhan van der Merwe grounded the try.