jdeagro
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[LAWS]Law 19.5 (b) : If a player with one or both feet on or beyond the touch-line (or touch-in-goal line), picks up the ball, which was in motion within the playing area, that player is deemed to have picked up the ball in touch (or touch-in-goal).[/LAWS]
What is this saying exactly? Am I correct to read that this is stating that a player who is already in touch and picks up a ball that is in motion within the playing area, is not putting it into touch but rather picking it up as if the ball was already in touch? Logically this doesn't seem correct, but then I don't know why the law book doesn't use the same wording as in 19.5 (a) where it ends with : [LAWS]...that player has taken the ball into touch (or touch-in-goal).[/LAWS]
Thanks in advance!
-Jon
What is this saying exactly? Am I correct to read that this is stating that a player who is already in touch and picks up a ball that is in motion within the playing area, is not putting it into touch but rather picking it up as if the ball was already in touch? Logically this doesn't seem correct, but then I don't know why the law book doesn't use the same wording as in 19.5 (a) where it ends with : [LAWS]...that player has taken the ball into touch (or touch-in-goal).[/LAWS]
Thanks in advance!
-Jon