dear Curtis, good on you for wanting to do this.
Firstly there are books and dvds to watch teaching you how to play rugby league, if however you wanted to play rugby union then I could teach you, but you are probably living in sydney.
I used to love playing it and did so until I got married.
These tapes will give you the knowledge required to play the game, but what I would do is to contact a rugby club near to you and go down to their clubrooms where you will see the president or security or any other name and give them a ring, and say that you want to join their club, bingo.
Tell them that you love watching the game, but haven't played it at all, that won't be a problem,because they are always after new members, and may even give you some books, so you can learn the position names, such as where the wing position is, prop etc.
The problem now is that the season is winding up, and won't start until January next year, but what you can do now is to get fit, by running, gym, but just light work for both to start with, and then gradually increase your running by doing a few km.
So when the training starts again you will be 95% fit, and this will impress the coach.
If you were living in Melbourne it would be easy because my brother is president of a club, that once I played with, although it's union, but he will have league contacts.
Please keep in touch as this really interests me. Geoff.
