Recent content by brvanisi

I apologize if it seems like I am nitpicking. I am a newly certified referee but I played youth rugby and played in college. I have been coaching high school and youth rugby for a few years, but as I read through and study the laws there are so many things that I come across that when I read...

So it's basically saying that a player who is in touch and picks up or catches a ball, is not the player who "took the ball into touch"? I was picturing a scenario like: Blue team sends a high box kick, blue team winger races down the pitch gets under the ball. Prior to catching the ball, the...

In the line out table for general play, one of the events (second from the bottom) is described as: "A player, who is in touch, catches or picks up a ball which has reached the plane of touch" The location for the mark of touch is: "Where the ball reached the plane of touch." And who throws...

As I was reading the law, the scenario in the video was the only way I could visualize it being physically possible, but I was confused because in 12.7 it uses the words "blown back". That is easy to understand, but "Kicked into the kicking team’s own in-goal" had me confused.

Kick off and restart kicks following a score - Rugby law 12.10 states: "If the ball is kicked into the kicking team’s own in-goal and is made dead by a defending player or it goes dead through in-goal, the non-kicking team is awarded a five-metre scrum" Forgive my ignorance but I am having a...