Next week sees the first ever Wheelchair Rugby Six Nations Championship take place in the Auvergne region of France. The inaugural championship features teams from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England, France and Italy and runs from 18th – 22nd June with a round of matches being played each day in a hectic schedule.
This isn’t the “murder ball” type rugby, played on a basketball court, that many may have witnessed in the Paralympics, but a more faithful representation of traditional rugby played on a 40m x 20m court in two halves of 40 minutes each. Each team has seven players consisting of hooker, lock, flanker, scrum half, centre, wing and full back and there are three substitutions allowed out of a squad of 12.
The teams use a regulation Size 4 ball and tries are scored by the ball being touched down in the in goal area. Conversions, and penalties, are taken by . . .
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