Question: Attacking team kick a grubber into the defending teams in-goal area from just outside the 22. Defending team gather the ball and choose not to ground it but choose to run it from in-goal. In the process of running in a large loop the player crosses the dead ball line (under their own momentum…
Question: It’s the last play of the game. Red are kicking for posts. The ball drifts just wide and a Green player, in the in-goal area, stops it with his foot (making him the ‘kicker’). It bounces up into the arms of another Green player, also in-goal, who is in front of him. He kicks…
Question: A maul has formed, you call maul. The team not in possession clearly want to hold the ball up, but the team in possession get the ball clearly to ground. Under law 16.16.b, the maul is over. How do you now proceed? Society response: Play on. As the ball is now clearly on the…
Question: Hooker throws the ball both straight and beyond the 5 metre line but it is blown back by a gust of wind and the hooker, who has advanced into the field of play, catches his own throw. Any issues? Society response: Unusual but play on: The throw has complied with Law 18. 23 (b)…
Question: Whites have penalty 10m from Blacks try line. Take a tap and Blacks infringe again. Whites have second penalty now on 5m line. Blacks infringe by not staying behind the try line. Third successive penalty – on 5m line. Blacks again infringe by not going behind the try line and intercept the man with…
