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Red goes up and catches the ball, brought back down and red attempt to set up a maul which blue don't contest. Ball goes back from the catcher before contact is made, we dutifully shout "use it!" but the pod ends up trundling downfield so we whistle up for a scrum blue. Where do you give the...

https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/64723422 Manu Tuilagi was sent off at the weekend for "fending" a defender off with a forearm/elbow straight to the face. Clear red, no argument. He has previous, so 6 weeks, down two for pleading guilty and apologising... ... and an extra week off as long...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/sep/07/zero-tolerance-crackdown-on-abuse-of-rugby-referees-as-threats-rise I noticed a lot more backchat and mouthiness at the beginning of last season, from players and coaches alike (not so the spectators though). By the end of the season it seemed to...

Scenario: open play kick into in-goal, defender catches it and calls mark. Upon calling mark, the referee stops the game and awards a free kick (17.3). The ball is thus dead (Definitions, Dead). Play restarts with a FK on the 5m line closes to where the mark was called. Also: 12.12.b - play is...

As I learnt it and understand it, the 10m offside line for non-participating players at a line-out lasts until the lineout is over - ball passed out or maul past the LoT. Looking in the lawbook today, I see law 18.36: "Once the ball has been thrown in by a team-mate, players who are not...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=260&v=bKjKEPZCr94 Blue 12 (in the scrumcap) overruns and is between white 22 and blue 15 (BC) as blue 15 passes. Would you call obstruction, play on because of materiality, something else? I find this one of the hardest calls to spot and make in my own matches...

In a game I played in recently (old man rugby, not the highest pace): Blue kick deep from their own half, red 10 gathers the ball just inside his own 22 and gets bundled into touch by blue 6. As the teams are running back, blue 6 takes the QTI 2m back from the LOT to blue 12 - who immediately...

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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1144143115298717701.html An explanation on the statistics under review by the WR Law Review Group. Frequency vs. severity, and other considerations.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Oq7Jh7CoGr4&t=54 Green 5, 10m offside, jogs up such that he's put onside in time to receive a pass and score. Penalise? https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Oq7Jh7CoGr4&t=12 Yellow 2, 10m offside, jogs up such that he's put onside in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dMSSNNeoHs A dispatch from the powers that be - distinguishing (and defining) the difference between shoulder charge and high tackle, and the consequences/expected sanctions associated. Shoulder charge: No head contact - YC if dangerous, penalty if not Head...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1126923614283030528 Seems like it's not in itself dangerous, but where do you start? If Blue 14 grabs white 1, is it a maul if the BC is off feet? In fact, is he off feet, because no other part of him is supported on the ground? Can the BC dot the ball (or his...

https://reddit.app.link/xAI4s5XbRV Apparently a shoulder to the face is only a yellow, as long as it's kept to "medium force"...

It's near the end of the game and Blue are leading Red 19-15, but give a penalty away on their own 22, about 25m in from touch. There's a scoreboard next to the pitch, presumably manned by a club volunteer unofficially, that clearly reads 17-15. Do you alert Red (or both) that the scoreboard...

https://twitter.com/theblitzdefence/status/1105082189555945473?s=19 Just out of interest - how many penalties could be blown for in this clip? I was unhappy with my game yesterday: I was a last-minute stand-in for an injured fellow ref, the weather was filthy, the match was the lowest league...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIrN2KSh2aI I missed the match, so have only seen the highlights... but surely the first Irish try was a double movement/not releasing?

Watching the ENG-NZ game yesterday answering questions from a friend who is new to rugby, there was one I couldn't really answer... Red tackles blue, blue get men over the ball, red don't contest after the first contact that sets the ruck. Blue players pile in to the back, as they do to protect...

Red have just scored and converted, 2 points ahead with a minute to go. Blue are back at the touchline, itching to restart, and red are clearly timewasting after having already been warned - dawdling back, sudden cramps, chatting to the coach at the sideline. Do you: Allow blue to restart...

Red kick off and the ball sails wide, over the plane of touch, before being blown back into the FoP by a sudden, unexpected rough gust of wind. Blue 11 has one foot in touch and catches it. The laws talk about whether the ball has reached the plane of touch. During flight or at the point of...

From the 2018 Law Quiz, Foul Play, multiple answer question: 1 A player kicks the ball from the middle of the halfway line and is then obstructed on the 10 metre line. The ball lands in-goal 7 metres from the touch-in-goal line. What option(s) are available to the kicker's team? a Penalty kick...