Tag Rugby

PowerHouseDan

Anyone signed up the summer tag Rugby This Year?
www.tagrugby.ie

Amz

I'd play if I could get a team.

Rarrr!

PowerHouseDan

there are usually people that dont have full teams that are looking. If you contact them.Email the operations manager

Amz

Just having a gander at the site.

Some of the girls from my team wanted to play, but I think I'd rather play with some new people too.

PowerHouseDan

i say pop a old email.ye should get some mixed teams, a few lads like.
You could also ref and play refereein is a good laugh

Amz

Bloody hell! Enough people hate me as it is without throwing some of my dodgy refereeing into the mix on top of that!

PowerHouseDan

Its great bein in control. But dunno where your from but email the team manager. my brother my the cork one last year he got alot of emails askin about people joining team.

[Jackass]

Gotta be a Boards.ie team!! G'wan! I had no intentions of playing, never even crossed my mind untill i saw this...and im not gonna be arsed organising a team So why dont we get a boards team? I'd deffenatly play if it could all be organised here...all i'd have to do is show up! I trust we'll all be as bad as eachother Could be a bit of craic...anyone up for it?

PowerHouseDan

i will train ye if ye pay me

PowerHouseDan

+ pay the €545.00 fee

PowerHouseDan

Amz here are two links for you:
http://www.tagrugby.ie/player/player_reg.cfm

http://www.tagrugby.ie/player/player_search.cfm

Amz

Cheers for that.

Sangre

Love playing tip/tag rugby, used to play it twice a day in school. Still try and get the odd game playing in UCD on the pitches.
I have the skillz to pay the billz.

Shame I'll be away for summer, bit of tip on the Californian beaches.

RuggieBear

Unfortunately i'm not built for playing tag rugby....i do have the required skills ( ) just not the willpower to overcome my lifetimes indoctrination of running people down.

Besides i think i'd be too agressive to play tag rugby as i'd want to drop my shoulder and take out anybody coming my way.

PowerHouseDan

There is that in tag too usually get sent off and mybe a 3 week ban, last year there were punchs and a kick in the head great fun. But that was the A group the pro's they like to be called.

Amz

RuggieBear wrote:

Unfortunately i'm not built for playing tag rugby....i do have the required skills ( ) just not the willpower to overcome my lifetimes indoctrination of running people down.

Besides i think i'd be too agressive to play tag rugby as i'd want to drop my shoulder and take out anybody coming my way.

Excellent!

You can be on my team!

RuggieBear

powerhousedan wrote:

There is that in tag too usually get sent off and mybe a 3 week ban, last year there were punchs and a kick in the head great fun. But that was the A group the pro's they like to be called.

A mate of mine wanted me to play last year so i went along to watch....tbh i was frustrated watching it as much as i would be frustrated playing tag, it's just to soft and fast.

But yeah, there was some shouting and some aggro as someone took exception to being body checked. Poor girl went flying as she ran into a guy who just ran into her path...

I'm an old school mauling type forward so tag is the antithesis of rugby to me.

Sangre

It really is a great way to develop balance on the feet, acceleration and hands.
If I was a coach I'd try and have a game going once a session.
You don't need to be fast (but it helps) you just need to be able to sell a dummy or pass properly to open up the wings etc.,

Amz

We try and play tag as warm up and cool down to get us using our hands and our heads more.

I much prefer full contact, but I think in order to develop my game I need to be playing more tag.

PowerHouseDan

Yeah i much prefer full contact myself. But tag requires alot of skill, and bein honest the most skillful players at tag are rugby players. Boards team would be a laugh ( get them to sponser the team Free Drinks, gears, reg) The Best thing about being a ref you get 2 free drinks cards a night and free BBQ so if ya hold onto your cards till the big night you have many many free drinks.

Sangre

Amz wrote:

We try and play tag as warm up and cool down to get us using our hands and our heads more.

I much prefer full contact, but I think in order to develop my game I need to be playing more tag.

Most definetely, an essential element of any training I feel. Playing tag rugby for the first time can leave your body aching as your strechting and pushing muscles you never thought possible trying to avoid a tag.
It really gets your hands and heads going, you can practise those fancy passes and steps with much less consequences. Encourages you to see rugby from a different angle, it opens up holes in a defence that you would have never noticed before.
Its a great thing for forward especially, it gets them to stop dropping the head as an immediate reaction to getting a ball and seeing if they can do something themselves with a quick run or pass out the line.
Even if a forward doesnt have the pass to go all the way, a dummy learnt from tag can get him a few yards behind the defence so he can pop it onto a quicker player to finish it off.

kenmc

RuggieBear wrote:

Unfortunately i'm not built for playing tag rugby....i do have the required skills ( ) just not the willpower to overcome my lifetimes indoctrination of running people down.

Besides i think i'd be too agressive to play tag rugby as i'd want to drop my shoulder and take out anybody coming my way.

Dude you gotta be a forward like me - prob a front rower too yeah? I love playing tag - really found that it helps me out with other skills that we don't usually get to use in the pack - my hands have gotten better, i have a sidestep now and even a dummy in my arsenal! who'dathunkit??? AND you get super fit cos you cover a hell of a lot of ground in a match.....
seriously - you can get over the need to run into people very easily - you'll only benefit.

Trojan

What Ruggie said.

We play "tip" during the summer, which is tag, minus the tags, plus a lot more contact - everyone's a winner

aoa321

We played in Waterford last year and it was great fun - we were a fairly fit gang but none of us had any rugby experience and we got cut to shreds by some of the teams that entered from rugby clubs (cos they knew what they were doing)

I'll probably play again this year but I am hoping there are seperate leagues for the experienced teams and the beginners like us

Are there any basic principles that we should follow? last year we got a bit of coaching and we were told that to defend properly that we should form a line across the pitch and hold it together until the attackers got to us - rather than go chasing around like crazies after whoever had the ball (which was our tactic for the first few games) This worked a treat and improved our fortunes no end.

Our biggest problem was that after progressing the ball the length of the pitch we simply could not get over for a try when it became crowded at the opponents line - no matter how many tags we had left!!

Any hints ?? We need to boost our confidence somehow!!

PowerHouseDan

There usually is a A B And C groups, depends on the demand though