Not including the qualifiers which have already been played. there are 48 to be played in the 2011 New Zealand Event.
40 - pool matches
4 quarter finals
2 semi finals
1 runner up
1 final
Maximum per team allowed on the pitch is 15 players per side. However, if players are red or yellow carded they must enure that key specialist positions are correctly covered i.e. the front row. If this is not the case and the officials feel that to many players are side lined they may abandon the game.
The same basic rules apply to 10's and 7s games.
There are 20 in the final pools
Canada
France
Japan
New Zealand
Tonga
England
Georgia
Romania
Scotland
Ireland
Italy
Russia
USA
Figi
Namibia
Samoa
Wales
In their initial Group which is Group B Japan have 4 other teams to play; South Africa, Samoa, Scotland, USA
93 countries have teams registered with the IRB
it is because you can play as more teams and now you can play as the titans so yes
because the rugby teams have room to play and so they have a even amount of space to play on.
England has national teams for both rugby union and rugby league
The UK military take pride in its rugby teams and have provided players for the international sides on many occasions - Police forces also have sides that play at a reasonable level
NO. The game organisers have declare that the teams take to long to recover from game between sessions they would need to play (which is evident from the rugby world cup schedule)
Its someone who can play centre across all the positions in a rugby teams back position
Because the game has not only affiliated teams and clubs but there are school college, university, Company teams, Forces teams, youth, junior and female teams that over 2,000,000 play
three teams play against each other
32 teams in the wold cup
nearly 30 countries.