20 metre restart
40/20 – a player kicks the ball from their 40 meter line to the opposition 20 meter line
Advantage – the play is allowed to continue if it is to the advantage of the team that hasn’t committed a penalty or infringement
Ankle tap – when someone gets touched on the ankle and trips over.
Backs – players that play in the back row positions.
Ball carrier –
Ball carrying arm –
Banana kick
Biff – fighting on the field.
Black dot – the black dot marking on the middle of the cross bar of the goal posts. No one knows why it is there.
Blind side – the side of the play/player closest to the touch line.
Bobble the ball – mishandling the ball.
Bomb – a type of kick where the ball is kicked very high in the air.
Broken Tackle
Bunker
Chicken wing
Charge Down – blocking the path of the ball with one’s body after it has been kicked by an opponent.
Completion rate
Conversion – the act of kicking a goal after scoring a try. A successful is worth 2 points.
Corner Post – a post placed at the intersection of each touch line and goal line (4 in total on the field)
Crusher tackle
Dead Ball – the ball has gone out of play.
Double movement
Downward pressure
Drop Kick/Drop Goal — Scored by dropping the ball onto the ground before kicking the ball so that it passes between the posts and above the crossbar. Worth 1 point.
Dummy – pretending to play the ball (eg going to kick or pass the ball) but retaining possession of it instead.
Facial
Falcon – named after the great Mario Fenech; where the ball hits a player on the head and rebounds off
Feeding the scrum
Fend
Field Goal
First Receiver
Flat pass
Flop – also known as a Hindmarsh. Laying on top of an already tackled player.
Forward Pass –the ball is thrown forward.
Full Credit to the boys – given fully, completely, and exclusively to the boys after a great game.
Golden Point
Goose Step
Grapple Tackle
Grounding
Grubber kick
Handover
Hit Up
High Tackle
Hospital pass
Immortal
Interception
Kick off
Knock on
Marker
Milking
Obstruction
Offload
Off side
Pack
Penalty Goal – after an infringement the team awarded the penalty is allowed to kick for goal. If the kick is successful going on the cross bar the team is awarded 2 points.
Penalty Try
Play the ball
Play to the whistle
Professional foul
Scrum
Second year syndrome
Second Receiver
Short side
Shoulder charge
Show & Go
Side step
Sin bin
Sliding defence
State of Origin
Strip the ball
Surrender tackle
Swinging arm
Tackle Bust
Tap kick
Touch Judge (Touchie)
Touch Line
Try – when the ball is grounded over the opposition teams try line. A successful try is worth 4 points.
Utility
Video Referee
Voluntary Tackle
Wooden Spoon – finishing last place on the ladder at the end of the regular season.
Zero Tackle