Recent content by jdeagro

Yea I didn't think about that til you mentioned it, but we actually run that play. But our 9 stays close to the scrum when he's working his way around to the other side until the 8 takes the ball out. It's cool to know he can go anywhere on the pitch behind the ball unrestricted and come back etc.

If a scrum play was designed to utilize the 8-man as the person who takes the ball out of the scrum, that frees up the scrum-half to be elsewhere, such as part of the back line, or an in-between point from the scrum and the back line to reduce pressure on them from the other scrum-half. Or they...

That's about all that's said in regards to the scrum-half whose team is in possession of the ball. It's quite clear what options the other scrum-half has, whose team is not in possession. (E.g. both feet behind the ball but close to the scrum, or retires permanently at their teammates hindmost...

I always thought it would be neat if they could incorporate tech to solve this problem, in this day and age. Maybe not until the day everyone's got a self driving car...

Fair point. What about at a penalty kick for points? Obviously if missed, it's play on, so the kicker would need to ditch the sunglasses in haste, but putting that aside for a minute since technically true for the kicking tee too.

Sure, but does that mean they wouldn't be allowed at any other stoppages before the game's over either?...e.g. at half-time while the team is circled around the far corner of the pitch. I don't disagree btw, I think your point is fair. Just playing devil's advocate.

Sounds like my typical Saturday, at the level I play at. 😆

Not that I see a stake in this either way, but just curious, why care?...What potential harm on the game does it have? (The opposition could surely do the same if they wanted, so it's not an unfair advantage thing, IMO.)

Agreed. The ball is barely leaving the hands in some of them too.

Sorry, perhaps poor choice of words. I meant that the kicking team lapsed their time without consequence from the ref, as they allowed play on with the kick every time I've seen it.

Fair question. I often find it lapse, inconsequentially, frequently at lower levels, like what I play at, too. As a captain, if I'm confident it elapsed, I normally look at the ref and make a gesture pointing to my wrist to make them aware, but I've always been shrugged away. lol.

The scrum doesn't have to be played and I would normally end the game there, under the assumption it wasn't intentional. An intentional knock on would be a penalty, and then the game would continue instead of ending, with the ball being given to the non-offending team. A team would have to...

Not really the same thing but tangentially related you reminded me of. I've always been one of the few to recognize a good opportunity for taking a quick tap penalty, at the level I typically play at. But one game I recall, I took one in hand, started breaking away, and for some reason I thought...

I would say this might be ok. 20m away is significantly different than 10m (it's almost the distance of scoring in the in-goal from the 22m, to paint a picture), for sure. I'd be more ok with this if that's what the law was, not that it would make the ref's job any simpler unfortunately. A...

True, that I definitely would penalize as dangerous. But I think potentially less dangerous (depending on the exact scenario) for an attacking player to grubber a ball on the ground when a defender is on the ground somewhat close to it.