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Rugby
Rugby is a great sport. I love looking at rugby photos because you don't have a helmet or pads blocking the subject's expression.
With volleyball at the beach in bright sunlight I usually shoot at 400 iso. Based on trial and error I have found that a shutter speed of anything slower than 1/2000th of a second is too slow. At that shutter speed I can catch the logos on the ball without any blur and can also capture the compression of the ball when it hits the player's hands.
The f/stop issue is a tough one. The problem with beach volleyball is that the background clutter (logos, signs, spectators) is usually very distracting. In order to keep the clutter to a minimum I usually shoot at f/5.6 to f/2.8. But on the landscape shots above my f/stop was usually f/8 to f/16.
Low light volleyball is another story altogether. Hopefully your rugby match will be during the light of day. Then you will have a lot more creative latitude.
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