Points

Since I've been blogging i havern't really told you many of the rules so today I'm telling you about how the points work.

When you place the ball over the line we call this a try. You get 5 points for scoring one of these. It used to be 4 but everyone kept scoring penelties and drop goals so they raised it to five to make the game more interesting. When you score a try however you get a chance to get two more points by kicking the ball through the goal. This is called a conversion.

A penalty is three points when you kick it through the goal again. You get penalties for knock ons and other things like that.

And finally there's a drop goal. You get three points for these as well. You have to let the ball bounce on the floor before you kick it through the goal. This is how Johnny Wilkinson scored when England won the rugby world cup.

So there you go, that's how the points work in rugby.