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Clarification 1-2012
g: Following a kick ahead, the ball goes over the goal line and whilst it is still up in the ai ... s the opposition in-goal area and the player’s feet touch the touch-in-goal line or beyond then the player is in touch-in-goal and a try is not awarded. Law 19 Touch and Lineout – Definitions • If a playe ... l. If an attacking player is in touch or in touch-in-goal, the player can score a try by grounding the bal
Clarification 2-2009 (1)
l. Simultaneous grounding the ball in in-goal whilst making contact with the touch-in-goal line or dead ball line. Scenario: A player carrying the ball attempts to score a try. In the process of groundin ... s the touch-in-goal line with an arm, leg or any part of his body. Questions from above: 1. Is a try scored? 2. Is the player in touch-in-goal? 3. Is an attacking scrum 5m from the goal line awarde
Clarification 9-2004
t be sent-off. Penalty: Penalty Kick The final paragraph states: A penalty try must be awarded if the offence prevents a try that would probably otherwise have been scored. A player who prevents a tr ... w (as now rewritten) to ensure that in each and every circumstance, where a penalty try is awarde ... r; certain incidences of scrum collapsing. In these circumstances, the sanction of a penalty tr
Clarification 1-2025
n be sanctioned under either of the following laws depending on where they are in relation to the try-lin ... k/breakdown close to the goal line, the attacking scrum half picks up the ball and dives forward over the ruck in an attempt to score a try. Is this legal or should it be sanctioned? Clarificatio
Clarification 3-2022
n place. If there is any element of dangerous play, in line with the above ruling, then a try cannot be the reward. In principle, in a try scoring situation, if the action is deemed to be a dive forward for a try, then it should be permitted. If a player is deemed to have left the ground to avoi ... l in order to score a try, and we all agree that should be allowed. From an equity perspective, if they d
Clarification 1-2015
e would like a clarification in Law. Scenario 1 A try is scored in the last minute of a gam ... s play to continue. (f) If time expires after a try has been scored the referee allows time for the conversion kick to be taken.” Variation for Seven-a-side – in practice: The team scoring a try withi ... y Committee Scenario 1 A team scoring a try near the end of the match may take the conversion kic
Clarification 2-2009
l line or dead ball line. Scenario: A player carrying the ball attempts to score a tr ... d it on the basis that a player touching a touch line is out of play and it should be the same in in-goal. Law 2 ... y the same time) touches the touch-in-goal line with an arm, leg or any part of his body. Questions from above: 1. Is a try scored? 2. Is the player in touch-in-goal? 3. Is an attacking scrum 5m fro
Clarification 4-2024
n a try has been scored. (plus clauses i-iv) b) A person carrying only a kicking te ... k at goal, or a try has been scored. c) The coaches attending to their teams at half-time. ... d to kick at goal, or a try has been scored. This person must be one of the two nominated water carrier
Clarification 2-2026
s an offside line that runs parallel to the try line through the hindmost point of any ruck participant. If that point is on or behind the try line, the offside line for that team is the try lin
Clarification 3-2005
d across the goal line to score a try. 1. Law 21.5(b) states that ‘If the kicker indicate ... 1-Penalty & Free Kicks Black team are penalised for a tackle infringement 30 metres from their goal lin ... d situation is legal and the referee should award a try. Ruling of the designated member
Clarification 3-2010
m Team A and Team B dive for the ball. The referee refers to the TMO for decision of try or no tr ... d by the players touching the ball and the ball travels and lands on or over the dead ball line or touch-in-goal line the referee awards a drop out.
Clarification 7-2015
t a tackled player: Law 22 (e) Tackled near the goal-line. If a player is tackled near to the opponents’ goal line so that this player may immediately reach out and ground the ball on or over the goal-line, a try is scored. (f) In this situation, defending players who are on their feet may legally prevent the try by pulling the ball from the tackled player’s hands or arms, but must not kick the bal
Clarification 5-2016
s to the touch definitions (Law 19) in the Global Law trials will also apply to the dead ball lin ... r who had a foot over a touch in goal line or whether the players foot was over the dead ball lin ... d depend on whether the ball was over the touch in-goal line or dead ball line. The different outcome could lead to a try being awarded in one case and not in the other.There is urgency to this reques
Clarification 1-2022
e For a try to be awarded, Law 8.2a says an attacking player has to ground the ball firs ... o so ‘first’, so a try cannot be awarded. Therefore the defender’s touch takes precedenc ... d into in-goal by an attacker = Goal line drop-out (Law 12.12b) Charged down from the field of pla ... 1) *See below Passed into in-goal by a defender and ball becomes loose = scrum on the 5m lin
Clarification 2-2016
Clarification in Law by the Designated Members of the Rugby CommitteeClarification2-2016Union / HP Ref ManagerAlain RollandLaw Reference3Date2016-08-05RequestAlain Rolland, Fifteens High Performance Referee Manager has requested clarification on the following items within law 3.14. Does the injured player have to go off at the time of the foul play or can the player try to play on first? Ca
Clarification 2-2005
Ruling in Law by the Designated Members of the Rugby CommitteeClarification2-2005Union / HP Ref ManagerFFRLaw Reference6Date2005-04-01Request The FFR has requested a ruling with regard Law 6-Match Officials Law 6 A.12 stipulates for “a ball in the in-goal touched by a non player”. In such situation, the referee considers what would have had occurred after this incident and will blow for a tr
Clarification 4-2014
g possession of it, and must try to make the ball available immediately so that play can continue. ( ... t early, late or dangerously. A player must not tackle an opponent above the line of the shoulders even if the tackle starts below the line of the shoulders. A tackle around the neck or head is dangerou
Clarification 7-2014
s. c) All players: Other restrictions on winning the ball. Players must not try to win the bal
Clarification 2-2023
d of the “cannon arm” tactic usually adopted near the goal line in ‘pick and go’ scenarios. The tacti ... e that this specific tactic is outside of law, then we run the risk of players projecting towards the goal lin ... n in determining if a try can be awarded.As World Rugby outlined in the Law Application Guidelin