From what I read up your teammates are not allowed to lift you up, but it kinda looks like they are in that picture.
Hahaha. Spot on. Your team mates are not allowed to "lift" but they are allowed to "support". Clearly, this has evolved over time and they are basically lifted - but shhhh, don't tell anyone!
Lifting is most definitely allowed, in fact it's a pretty important skill. Edit: Really Heef? That's bizarre.
Not bizarre. Bollocks. Anyway, that's my understanding - but I'm far from an expert at Union as the rules were vastly different when I last played (schoolboy level sometime in the early 1990s)