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These 2 things kind of contradict each other. I'm sure Herbies got a burner in this thread somewhere - penny for your thoughts?

With the rationale – "all three measures allow the scrum half, or player in that role, to play the ball away cleanly from the phase of play without disruption." I would imagine it's play on (assuming that the defending players are legal) as, as soon as the ball is picked up and they take the PnG...

In the u20s recently - a massive improvement IMO. 90 seconds is too much time. Also note that one of the other law trials of marks being allowed inside the 22m from restarts has not been adopted - shocker.

Should add after reading other thoughts on this - that with that 1m protection they’ll have while this was legal, it won’t be under this new interpretation - until the halfback has moved 1m from the breakdown. ie: half back arrives and grabs ball from base of ruck or maul, effectively now has a...

……………………… really? Remember the game is played by humans, not robots programmed to perform actions within micro seconds.

Yes - because the maul is over the moment the ball is removed, so it's just a simple case of a tackler, attempting to tackle a ball carrier. The "tackler" is onside as there were apart of the previous maul.

Yeah true, not hard to add some words along the lines of "a player not bound to ruck may use their hands to play the ball away from the ruck from behind their last players feet" (or something).

Correcting myself here - there is a clarification from 2014 - When a scrum half attempts to retrieve the ball from a ruck, the ball is not out until that player has picked the ball up from the ground. Fuck me would it be that hard to put this in the book?

Bingo.

They kind of do (ball is out when it leaves the ruck)- but what I think is your key point is very true and very annoying. RA's game management guidelines last year clarified this but these don't officially apply to professional game despite being the done thing. Annoyingly the laws aren't...

Well to answer your question, ultimately its the referee (per laws) who time keeps all of these different things, but different stadiums and host broadcasters will have access to different technologies and may be able to put it up in the stadium or as an onscreen graphic for broadcast. WR (World Rugby)...

I hope it's this. You could be really unorganised but just lift/ jump for the sake of it to feign a contest otherwise.

Correct - but I don't believe this is relevant to this law update/ clarification? "Someone in the maul" or in the ruck would infer someone bound to it which the 9 usually isn't in this scenario.

2. I can imagine that similar to the NRL there will be someone off-field doing the clock for scrums/ lineouts. Going to be at the mercy of what resource and manpower is available at the host stadium/ host broadcaster, otherwise will be up to the referee I guess. 3. Remember you can't tackle...

https://www.theroar.com.au/2024/08/06/peter-doubles-daley-the-man-who-never-laced-the-boots-but-still-gave-more-to-the-game-than-any-player/ Not a Souths guy, so never knew him personally - but I can't think of another name more intrinsically linked with community rugby in QLD to the point...

I can't remember if I read previously in this chat that it was an tender process? Potentially the other clubs didn't apply? Also Ballymore is shared by a number of teams and is already in use on a regular basis - probably a small part of this is protecting that investment.

And?

What a fucking stupid comment. If referees aren't allowed to referee the clubs they played for in community rugby - there'd be a whole bunch of games being controlled by mums and dads on the sidelines. Where do you think referees come from?

source?

Tim Walsh recently said on KOKO that the womens 7s team get a decent packet so probably not worth it for them.