Comparison of Gaelic football and rugby union goalkeeper. Scores are recorded in the format Goal Total-Point Total. To determine the score-line goals must be converted to points and added to the other points. For example, in a match with a final score of Team A 0–21 Team B 4–8, Team A is the winner with 21 points, as Team B scored only 20 points (4 times 3, plus 8). There is no "goalkeeper" in rugby union, instead there is a "fullback", although it must be said that the fullback in rugby union is not required to guard a goal in the same way that a goalkeeper does.
Field goal (rugby) Northern Rugby Football Union broke away from the RFU, both codes' governing bodies retained the field goal. While the RFU abolished the field goal in rugby union in 1905, rugby league retained it. However, there was criticism about it on the 1908-09 Australia rugby league tour of Britain, whereby the Australia national rugby league team player Dally Messenger continuously and recklessly attempted field goals during a match against the England national rugby league team. A writer for the "Daily Chronicle" stated "I do not believe in the speculator at any time, it is bad rugby football" and expressed concern that