Yellow scrum, yellow win the ball and are planning a #8 pickup
here's a great diagram of exactly the situation ..
seems to me I have two conflincting pieces of information -
[LAWS](b) Offside for scrum-halves. When a team has won the ball in a scrum, the scrum half of that team is offside if both feet are in front of the ball while it is still in the scrum. If the scrum half has only one foot in front of the ball, the scrum half is not offside. [/LAWS]
which tells me that the offside line for the yellow SH is actually the ball, the same as for the Blue SH
But the diagram has the yellow SH offside line being the back foot -- but there doesn't seem to be anything in the text of the Laws that supports that.
BACKGROUND - this came up in my game on Saturday where blue scrum complained to me that he was being obstructed , and at half time asked me to explain the Laws to him -- where exactly -- he wanted to know, can the yellow scrum half legally stand, when his #8 is going to pick up
So talk me through how you referee this --
here's a great diagram of exactly the situation ..
seems to me I have two conflincting pieces of information -
[LAWS](b) Offside for scrum-halves. When a team has won the ball in a scrum, the scrum half of that team is offside if both feet are in front of the ball while it is still in the scrum. If the scrum half has only one foot in front of the ball, the scrum half is not offside. [/LAWS]
which tells me that the offside line for the yellow SH is actually the ball, the same as for the Blue SH
But the diagram has the yellow SH offside line being the back foot -- but there doesn't seem to be anything in the text of the Laws that supports that.
BACKGROUND - this came up in my game on Saturday where blue scrum complained to me that he was being obstructed , and at half time asked me to explain the Laws to him -- where exactly -- he wanted to know, can the yellow scrum half legally stand, when his #8 is going to pick up
So talk me through how you referee this --