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No, I do precisely as you do. Manage the non-throwing team, and let the throwers determine their own gap (as long as its not excessive of course).

Yes Phil, exactly this.

too true.

Rumbled o_O

He wasn't allowing the TH to get a bind as the LH forehead was against the upper arm/shoulder area of the TH. I'm afraid that I do not memorise the law numbers, i'm too old, can't be bothered to look it up but i'm sure that preventing a bind is illegal. In fact I know it is when i'm the ref ;)

Yes in my view, quite obviously, the Loose Head was too high.

I have edited my original post. It seemed I had complicated the explanation. This may be why I did not follow Didds' question - as I had not explained the situation well.

Yes he will indeed, and thats why I managed it with a relatively light touch. I'm afarid I don't understand your question - the TH was not too low, he was perfectly legal.

During my game at the weekend I had an interesting scrum dynamic between a young Tight Head and an 'experienced' Loose Head. I would welcome your thoughts. So the situation was thus; The TH got into a low, dynamic position at crouch. The LH not so low, not so dynamic. At bind, the LH (in my...

Sorry Marc, 'Straight' is definitely in the lawbook. isn't it?

Absolutely tongue in cheek, it looks really hard work when I see it on TV. Not sure my voice would cope!

Marc, I am not trying to catch you out. I was genuinely interested.

Free kick or penalty. Do you make the determination on the thrower. That is; has he thrown the ball yet, or not?

Voice needs a bit of a rest I would imagine.

I 'think' i'm right in saying that this is not offside but instead leaving lineout before the ball is thrown, which is a free-kick. Happy to be corrected here... 7 and 3 might argue that they are simply changing positions in the LO, which would be a stretch based on this still photo, but the...

Does your society have a consistent approach to sanctioning it?

Definitely breeze on regardless. Past is the past. Hopefully they have learnt from last time and will be better.

You're assuming Phil, that the #10 would be anywhere close to the breakdown ;)

Oh you guys 😄 I did not introduce the concept of 'may' by the way, so whilst some may be impressed by finding some internet grammatical explanation, its not relevant. I'm not making anything up, nor misunderstanding English. I don't believe that I have mentioned any societys briefings...

Yes, but how is that relevant? The bit about London refs????