Vovonne
Referees in England
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Hello all,
I have a (hopefully) quick question about advantage: say you are playing advantage after a knock on, and in the ruck that follows the non-offending team commits an offence in the ruck (but not amounting to foul play). Is the correct decision to:
- award a penalty kick in favour of the team that knocked-on, or
- to go back to the original knock on with a scrum in favour of the team that didn't knock on but played the ball off their feet?
I recently went for the Penalty Kick option - the infringement that came after the knock on was a player in the ruck playing the ball off their feet.
Conscious of Rule 7.2.c which suggests that was the wrong call, but at the time it felt wrong to go back to the knock on when the team it would have benefitted had then chosen to commit an offence (as opposed to do a knock on themselves for instance). What do people think? I'm sure the situation will come up again!
For ease of reference, here's Rule 7.2.c: "Advantage ends when ... c. The non-offending team commits an infringement before they have gained an advantage. The referee stops the game and applies the sanction for the first infringement. If either or both infringements are for foul play, the referee applies the appropriate sanction(s) for the offence(s)".
Thanks for your contributions :smile:
I have a (hopefully) quick question about advantage: say you are playing advantage after a knock on, and in the ruck that follows the non-offending team commits an offence in the ruck (but not amounting to foul play). Is the correct decision to:
- award a penalty kick in favour of the team that knocked-on, or
- to go back to the original knock on with a scrum in favour of the team that didn't knock on but played the ball off their feet?
I recently went for the Penalty Kick option - the infringement that came after the knock on was a player in the ruck playing the ball off their feet.
Conscious of Rule 7.2.c which suggests that was the wrong call, but at the time it felt wrong to go back to the knock on when the team it would have benefitted had then chosen to commit an offence (as opposed to do a knock on themselves for instance). What do people think? I'm sure the situation will come up again!
For ease of reference, here's Rule 7.2.c: "Advantage ends when ... c. The non-offending team commits an infringement before they have gained an advantage. The referee stops the game and applies the sanction for the first infringement. If either or both infringements are for foul play, the referee applies the appropriate sanction(s) for the offence(s)".
Thanks for your contributions :smile: