“…Rugby is a dynamic team sport (Lamb & Croft, 2016), requires a combination of fitness and physical ability (Higham, Pyne, Anson, & Eddy, 2012), implementation of technical skills (Meir, 2012), played with the ball as the main object (IRB, 2014). Rugby is a physically demanding, skillful sport, performed an intermittent high intensity (Chiwaridzo, Ferguson, & Smits-engelsman, 2020).…”