Attack aspects from ruck in rugby game of world top-level in recent years

Abstract

    The purpose of this study was to clarify attack aspects from ruck in the breakdown and to compare the difference of the attack aspects from ruck of southern hemisphere and of northern hemisphere. This study was analyzed mainly by two points. The first were the options of attack from ruck. The second were situations of ruck. The main results of this study were as follows;
1) The most 39% of the attack from ruck is Side Attack. There is Line Attack of 27％ in the second, and Pick Attack of 14％ in the third.
2) In total, eighty percent of ball out from ruck was ruck of less than 5 seconds. Comparing the Southern Hemisphere and Northern Hemisphere, ruck of less than 5 seconds is high ratio in the southern hemisphere, and ruck of more than 5 seconds is high ratio in the northern hemisphere.
3) Line Attack decrease at attack from ruck of more than 5 seconds, and Pick Attack and Kick Attack increase.