mark.lucas
New member
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2010
- Messages
- 56
- Post Likes
- 4
OK, here's the situation.
Green are attacking, but Yellow gain a turnover 1m from their try line. They run it out of their in-goal, but the ball carrier is held at 3m into play from their try line. A maul forms, and then collapses with the ball buried at the bottom. Ref, correctly blows - Scrum 5 to Green. Green take the ball down the blindside and and the ref awards a try.
All through this, the ref is unaware of of a player, who received a knock in the Yellow turnover, who was out of play since the turnover, and is standing behind the dead ball line out of his field of vision.
Many spectators thought that the scrum should be reset once the player was back in the game. The ref however stated that he couldn't change the decision he had made - the try stands.
Thoughts please.
Green are attacking, but Yellow gain a turnover 1m from their try line. They run it out of their in-goal, but the ball carrier is held at 3m into play from their try line. A maul forms, and then collapses with the ball buried at the bottom. Ref, correctly blows - Scrum 5 to Green. Green take the ball down the blindside and and the ref awards a try.
All through this, the ref is unaware of of a player, who received a knock in the Yellow turnover, who was out of play since the turnover, and is standing behind the dead ball line out of his field of vision.
Many spectators thought that the scrum should be reset once the player was back in the game. The ref however stated that he couldn't change the decision he had made - the try stands.
Thoughts please.