Rugby Union – Hard to take your eyes off the action

Rugby Union ranks as one of the world’s most popular sports with particularly large fanbases in the likes of England, Ireland, Wales, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. But its popularity has grown significantly away from the sport’s traditional power bases with the likes of the USA, Italy and Argentina all starting to take it far more seriously in recent years.
What many people enjoy about it is that despite its rough, aggressive and extremely physical nature, the players show far greater levels of fair play and respect towards opponents and referees than they ever do in the likes of football. Because of the vastly specialised positions, you also get to see very different sorts of athletes in action: from the powerful, pacy and skillful wings to the enormously strong and battle-hardened back-row forwards to the small, nimble and resourceful scrum-halves.
The Rugby World Cup is unsurprisingly the sport’s biggest prize and it takes place every four years. New Zealand are always the team to beat with the likes of South Africa and England also amongst the favourites due to their all-round abilities and experience of performing on the biggest stages.
Away from that one, there’s the Six Nations which is contested by Europe’s six elite sides while South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Argentina contest the Rugby Championship every year, formerly known as the Tri-Nations before Argentina joined. At club level, Europe’s premier competition is the European Rugby Champions Cup, formerly known as the Heineken Cup.
The match winner is an obvious place to start as regards the Betsson Rugby Union betting markets but you’ll also find plenty of handicaps on each game plus lines on the total number of points scored in the game, how many players will be sin-binned and whether a particular player will score a try. Most of these markets are available on live betting as well as pre-match.