Joe Ford (rugby union) Joe Ford (rugby union) Joe Ford (born 4 June 1990) is a rugby union player who plays at fly-half for Leicester Tigers in Premiership Rugby. He has previously played for Yorkshire Carnegie, in three spells, as well as Northampton Saints and Sale Sharks. Ford was a member of the Bradford Bulls Academy and played amateur rugby league for the St Albans Centurions. Ford made his professional rugby debut for Leeds Carnegie on 8 November 2009 in the Anglo-Welsh Cup against Leicester Tigers, Ford scored 13 points in 28-17 win. His brother George Ford made his debut for Leicester in the
Field goal (rugby) under Law 6 that kicking the ball through the posts from the ground in open play was a valid method of scoring a goal. A rejected proposal in 1882 by the Rugby Football Union suggested that field goals, referred to as a "flying kick", would be worth 4 points, the same value as a try. It was eventually formalised in 1891 by the International Rugby Football Board that field goals (classed as any other goals) would be worth 4 points. However, in 1905 both the IRFB and RFU abolished the field goal as a valid method of scoring. When the