Specific questions (and answers) relating to the current laws
Offside question 1, defending scrum half: I’m after some clarification on where the opposition scrum half can go at the scrum if they’re not following the ball round. It’s something I’ve never pinned down. Do they have to stay on the eight’s back foot if they go the opposite side to the put in? Society…
Question: Line out won by attacking team and defending team engage therefore making a maul. Maul travels through the line of touch. If the maul is moving forward, at what point does the ball need to be at the hind most player? Society Response: Law 16.14, Law 16.15 & Law 16.17c refer and apply to…
Question: Do you referee to the law or use empathy? This actually happened. During the first 10 minutes of a local derby at level 8 league standard, you are alerted to an incident behind you. As you turn you clearly see the green captain throw a punch at the blue captain, hitting him in the…
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…
