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Welcome to Better Rugby Coaching Issue 93
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Laws reminders: knees, lineouts and crossing
It is my brother’s birthday today – luckily I remembered. Well, I was actually reminded. Yet I have spent more years than I care to mention celebrating this day, either with a card or sometimes, if I am organised, a present.
So can I remember all the laws of rugby? I spend everyday thinking, reading and writing about rugby, but there are always one or two that slip my mind. In which case it is well worth looking at some of the laws to help keep me in tune for training my players and sometimes reffing youth games.
The refereeing fraternity has been under the microscope recently. The Six Nations games have been
dogged by interpretation and language difficulties; the Super 12 teams have decided not to have
foreign referees for local derbies for the very same reasons.
Reminder 1:
A referee is there to interpret the laws
of the game and will use their better
judgment to do so. They are not helped,
perhaps, by the constant revision of the
laws of the game.
Reminder 2:
The ball onto the knee is regarded as a
knock on.
This ruling was clarified by the IRB in
a note to the WRU in December 2004.
So a player cannot kick the ball with
the knee, or control a bouncing ball,
which subsequently goes forward, without
it being regarded as a knock on.
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Reminder 3:
Any player standing in the scrum half
position coming into the lineout can be a
jumper, or be a “supporter” for the jumper
for the throwing side.
However the non throwing side can only
bring a player into the line in similar
circumstances, if the throwing side does
the same.
Reminder 4:
Crossing – a player can pass a ball behind
a player on their own side to another player
as long as the decoy runners do not
cause any form of obstruction to potential
tacklers.
This is how the IRB clarified it:
- The option runner must be in an
onside position.
- If he runs in front of the ball
carrier before the pass is made,
he is offside and liable to a
penalty if he obstructs an opposition
player (Law 11).
- After the ball carrier has passed
the ball, the decoy runner must
not obstruct opposition players
(Law 10.1 Obstruction and Law
11 Offside).
In next week’s issue: Stop slow ball killing your game
Dan Cottrell, Editor
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