Ball scrambled dead

[Glyndwr]

Blue kick ahead into Red in-goal area.

Red player knocks ball over dead-ball line.

22 or penalty? No question of penalty try - nobody near enough to score.

 

[The umpire]

Were you by any chance watching London Irish v. Ospreys?

 

[ddjamo]

how did red "knock it over the dead ball line"? intentional?

 

[The umpire]

clearly (well, to the TV camera, anyway). Player diving to ground and thrust out a hand to bat it away before green, sorry blue, arrived.

 

[OB..]

Law 10.2 (c).

It is illegal if the referee judges it to be intentional.

 

[ddjamo]

if no penalty try - did he give a 5m pk to blue?

 

[The umpire]

no, he couldn't see what happened. Assumed that the kcik had gone dead and gave 22 drop out.

 

[ddjamo]

the ARse missed it too?

 

[Glyndwr]

Were you by any chance watching London Irish v. Ospreys?

And I thought my colour change would disguise the history:swet:

I had the impression at the time that it should have been a pen, but that no official was close enough to see it.

 

[Account Deleted]

I thought it should have been a penalty to London Irish.

 

[ex-lucy]

similar happened in Oz v Nz, but conditions prob meant that ref decided it was unintentional - the hand going out that pushed ball dead was prob trying to ground the ball.