You need to be very good at both kicking and winning for the punters in the stands not to want to put the boot in ...

From cleaning the mud off his boots to tossing a few blades of grass into the air, each has his own tried and trusted pre-kick ritual… but then it all comes down to the biomechanics of the kick ...

Rugby Union's Six Nations is set to get underway ... has a proud heritage as tactical kick. It’s the height which makes a Garryowen stand out from the crowd. Designed to go high but not cover ...

Because it was so wet and muddy they hatched a plan to kick for touch as many times as possible The result was a mind-numbing 111 line-outs in 80 minutes. The tactics paid off - Wales won the match ...

But, hey, that’s rugby. The sport still retains many quirky ... the pocket and launched what seemed like a fairly aimless high kick into the Scottish half suggest Borthwick is losing hearts ...

Scotland had raised the intervention of referee Pierre Brousset in a review with World Rugby, feeling Russell was asked to kick from two metres wider than where Duhan van der Merwe grounded the try.