CrouchTPEngage
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Incident from last weekend.
Blue v Red and it is a Blue scrum.
Red SH started in usual place, next to scrum and Blue SH. After the ball goes in, Red SH then moves to back, behind his Number-8's hindmost foot.
Cue Blue SH pointing at him and appealing to me. He appealed something like "Sir, he cannot come round the open-side". In fact, he stayed behind his number 8's feet, so I think he was just firing a warning at the Red-SH.
Did this law get changed in 2018 ?
From the lawbook:
[LAWS]30 . Once play in the scrum begins, the scrum-half of the team not in possession:
Takes up a position with both feet behind the ball and close to the scrum or
Permanently retires to a point on the offside line either at that team’s hindmost foot, or
Permanently retires at least five metres behind the hindmost foot.
[/LAWS]
So that implies the Red SH can NOT run round to the other side of his scrum so long as he keeps both feet behind the ball - right ?
Blue v Red and it is a Blue scrum.
Red SH started in usual place, next to scrum and Blue SH. After the ball goes in, Red SH then moves to back, behind his Number-8's hindmost foot.
Cue Blue SH pointing at him and appealing to me. He appealed something like "Sir, he cannot come round the open-side". In fact, he stayed behind his number 8's feet, so I think he was just firing a warning at the Red-SH.
Did this law get changed in 2018 ?
From the lawbook:
[LAWS]30 . Once play in the scrum begins, the scrum-half of the team not in possession:
Takes up a position with both feet behind the ball and close to the scrum or
Permanently retires to a point on the offside line either at that team’s hindmost foot, or
Permanently retires at least five metres behind the hindmost foot.
[/LAWS]
So that implies the Red SH can NOT run round to the other side of his scrum so long as he keeps both feet behind the ball - right ?