Tackle height stuff

[SimonSmith]

If the tackler would otherwise have been legal but for the action of the ball carrier, play on.

 

[Phil E]

so - to clarify - the ball carrier can instigate head contact with force with impunity, and any tackler being struck in this manner might get away without a card but still "concede" a PK?

(In RFU Land) if the tackler leads with the head he is liable to penalty. Law 9.11 now says...

Players must no do anything that is reckless or dangerous to others including leading with the head, shoulder, elbow or forearm, or jumping into or over an opponent.

The bits in red are the DLV additions.

This makes it "potential" foul play to use your head as a weapon.

 

[didds]

Yes.
But I was commenting on #38 - the situation in Australia.

 

[Dickie E]

(In RFU Land) if the tackler leads with the head he is liable to penalty. Law 9.11 now says...

Players must no do anything that is reckless or dangerous to others including leading with the head, shoulder, elbow or forearm, or jumping into or over an opponent.

The bits in red are the DLV additions.

This makes it "potential" foul play to use your head as a weapon.

The wording suggests to me that using your head as a weapon is only illegal if it is dangerous to others, not yourself

 

[Decorily]

The wording suggests to me that using your head as a weapon is only illegal if it is dangerous to others, not yourself

If you are the referee then you are the sole judge of fact and your interpretation of law is final!!

 

[chbg]

We've just had an excellent example of the effect of late & low at a Disciplinary Panel. It is not a great screenshot from a match video; in fact it is probably very poor! RFU Level 5 match, G16 (in #10 channel) received ball passed from base of breakdown and took 6 or so strides towards B2, who lined him up in a low dynamic position. For the last 2 strides G16 drops into the position seen and contact is made between B2's R shoulder to G16's head. Referee (in red, just to left edge of picture) immediately gives Advantage, before whistling promptly, as G16 is obviously concussed. Later that evening he went to hospital, was given a CT scan, and, 3 weeks later, has still not returned to training. Someone described the image as typical of a 'rutting stags' situation. B2's RC was contested by the club and supported without difficulty by the Panel, who couldn't, but didn't have to, agree whether G16 should have penalised (he's not quite at 90 degrees) or it was just a rugby accident.