Try score agasint the post

Toby Warren


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Am I reading this right?

22.4 OTHER WAYS TO SCORE A TRY
(b) Grounded against a goal post. The goal posts and padding surrounding them are part of
the goal line, which is part of in-goal. If an attacking player is first to ground the ball against
a goal post or padding, a try is scored.


I've always thought you could score a try at the base of the post/on the bottom of the padding, but reading 22.4(b) it seems to suggest that the whole padding is 'in play'

Am I missing somthing or have I stumbled upon my own urban myth?
 

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Isn't grounded on the ground?

Exactly.

If an attacking player is first to ground the ball against a goal post or padding, a try is scored.
You have to do both, ground it, and against the post or padding.
 

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I agree but why then does the law say

The goal posts and padding surrounding them are part of
the goal line
,

As a opposed to the base of the goal post and the base of the padding....


Because if they didn't people would say grounding against the post/padding was short of the line and therefore not a try.

What they are saying is that against the post/padding is the same as on the line because the post/padding are the line.


edit: I asked this very same question when I first came on here and after a long protracted discussion got the answer above.
 

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Because if they didn't people would say grounding against the post/padding was short of the line and therefore not a try.

What they are saying is that against the post/padding is the same as on the line because the post/padding are the line.


edit: I asked this very same question when I first came on here and after a long protracted discussion got the answer above.

Thanks that's cleared that up.
 

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As a opposed to the base of the goal post and the base of the padding....

If the law said "base" we could have a nice long thread on what the definition of "base" is :)
 

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given padding these days extends several inches into the FoP its makes sense to specify padding as part of the goal line to avoid THAT debate.

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