New law clarification from WR

[crossref]

So when the ruck ends do all the players IN the caterpillar also have to to get back behind the back foot before participating in the game ?

 

[OB..]

So when the ruck ends do all the players IN the caterpillar also have to to get back behind the back foot before participating in the game ?

... or be put onside by teammates running past them?

 

[didds]

VERY POOR WORDING.

yup. Hence my

"back to 12 year olds and the law review committee fitting their meeting inbetween the soup and the fish course"

 

[Camquin]

So offside for the player attempting to charge down the kick, but we ignore the blatant offside by the scrum-half moving in front of the hindmost foot to roll the ball back to box-kick. If you want to move the ball, someone bound into the ruck should be moving it.

 

[OB..]

So offside for the player attempting to charge down the kick, but we ignore the blatant offside by the scrum-half moving in front of the hindmost foot to roll the ball back to box-kick. If you want to move the ball, someone bound into the ruck should be moving it.

They seem to have borrowed from the scrum law: [LAWS=] 19.29 [...]at least one foot level with or behind the ball.[/LAWS]