Nigib
Referees in England
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I am right in assuming even though the scrum half can stand a little bit to the side, he still has to put the ball in straight so that at least part of the ball has to touch the imaginary centre line of the scrum so that law hasn't changed.
I wonder ids we will ever see not straight given in the top flight?
Not my reading - it has to be straight, not fed to the second/back rows, so parallel to the goal line (assuming scrum set correctly). If the ball is thrown towards the centre line from the new position, the ball will travel forwards. I assumed this was to give even more advantage to the 'striking' hooker.