Pegleg
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The key to this seems to be the fact that the player that knocked on went to ground to gather the ball. If he had remained on his feet and gathered the ball then no advantage could be applied could it?
In both scenarios the player knocking on gathered the ball and prevented the opposition getting the ball. It seems a little strange to me that one would result in a scrum and the other in a penalty (or even YC?)
Just a question - why would you play advantage when he gathers the ball by going to ground and not when he gathers the ball when standing up? In both scenarios he has prevented quick access to the ball by the opposition.
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Matty said -
Heres one for you all, if the player who had knocked on (BLACK) had regathered whilst stood up as per Balones scenario and the arriving opposition player (BLUE) ripped the ball out of his arms because he soft held it expecting the knock on to be called, who would play on??
You beat me to my next question.
I was going to ask it in conjunction with allowing play to continue if the ball had been taken off the player on the floor as well.
What is the difference?
The point is that in the Scenarios are different!
We have three very different scenarios (and therefore three different outcomes):
1 Knock on followed by PK offence
2 Knock on followed by legal play on that preventa an advantage until whistle is blown.
3 Knock on followed by the player not playing on when the ball is still live. Literally handing the advantage over.
Lesson?
If any offence occurs play on legally until the referee blows the whistle.
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