This should be on the first page of the next lawbook!Just because a decision can be technically justified by law does not mean it should necessarily be made.
This should be on the first page of the next lawbook!Just because a decision can be technically justified by law does not mean it should necessarily be made.
I suggest he is not DELIBERATELY offending.
Rather he is incapable of conforming to the requirement.
A not so subtle distinction.
As fopr generally, players that deliberately break the laws, probably do so UNTIL they are caught. Then they tend to stop because on the whole its not a positive move to do so. This bloke wasn;t capable of stopping - because je wasn't capable of starting!
didds
I think that there are more difficult scenarios, and the more likely.
1. After three NS you advise the skipper that he may wish to change throwers as the next NS will be a PK so he may wish to consider an alternate thrower. The new thrower chucks it NS.
2. After three NS you are thinking "The next one is a PK" but it goes in just fine. But LO number 5 is NS. Six and 7 are OK but 8 is crook. Thinking PK again but 9 is fine .......
3. At 5 min Red get their first LO and throw NS. At 25 min they get their second LO and throw NS. At 55 min they get their third LO and throw NS. At 75 min ............
At best he would regularly skew throw left or right of a completly random mix of the two. If his crap throwing always finds his middle jumper's outside arm, I'm smelling the beef bi-product!
I have more sympathy with that - I don't think it's possible to accidentally feed a scrum not straight. In practice, though, you give a FK the first time and they rarely feed NS again.And would you not YC a SH for constantly putting the ball in NS into the scrum?
That is obviously the correct approach by the referee when the crooked throws are clearly deliberate.I wish we could ask the thrower's skipper what HE thought was going on!
didds
At a lineout your team may be on either left or right. At a scrum they are always on your right.I don't think it's possible to accidentally feed a scrum not straight.
I don't know. Low rugby IQ, low team IQ, hooker is a lot older than the captain... At some stage I didn't continue to worry about the "why"This us a grew discussion, and thanks to all the commenters thus far.
I have so far asked two questions neither of which gave had any answers. Si in case they were missed here tgay are again
1) why would the thrower, his skipper, and the team in general choose to persist deliberately in a doing something that has no upside?
2) what will the ref do when three throwers are in the bin and how is this a solution?
treating this like a lateral-thinking puzzle : the solution is
- his throws always skew to one side (like the way some golfers always hook, but never slice)
- there was a strong cross wind, so that all kicks went out, and all throws came in from the same touchline
- so his skew throwing always favoured the same team
That is obviously the correct approach by the referee when the crooked throws are clearly deliberate.
If you get a situation that is bordering on farcical, get the captains together and see if they can help sort it out.