Line out ... How high can they go ?

[Browner]

Given that assisting became supporting became lifting has become launching / throwing .... Then where will it progress to next ?

 

[RobLev]

Given that assisting became supporting became lifting has become launching / throwing .... Then where will it progress to next ?

Gold #1 is supporting illegally (Law 19.10(d)):

[LAWS]Lifting and supporting. Players may assist a team-mate in jumping for the ball by lifting and supporting that player providing that the lifting and/or supporting players do not support the jumping team-mate below the shorts from behind or below the thighs from the front. [/LAWS]

and bearded Gold, if he helped his team-mate get up there, is acting illegally, because he isn't "lifting and supporting" him. Mind you, he would have been supporting illegally anyway (hands below shorts).

 

[Browner]

Yes but thats not being refereed as C&O , so next ??

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[ChrisR]

C'mon! The man is still on the way up. Don't forget that they got here on a cabbage boat.