Latching

[Umaga's Witness]

Are referees still supposed to be watching out for latching - players binding to the ball carrier and not retaining their feet when the ball carrier is tackled?

It doesn't seem so. Internationals in the last while have had a lot of this, particularly from the French, for example. And the chiefs last night in super rugby did it all the time. Refs didn't care.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

They're pretty strict on it in the Prem, but yeah do seem a lot laxer in the Six Nations - don't know if maybe the Prem is a trial of stricter interpretations or something? Like how we had the high tackle flowchart first etc

 

[Kiwiwomble]

seems like something that is so easy to ref, just call out as soon as you see that separate and people will start taking more care

 

[AngloScotsHybrid]

It used to be that it was the openside flanker i.e Neil Back that emerged from a rolling maul having scored the try. Now its usually the hooker. Hookers score so many tries these days. When did this switch and why?

 

[Which Tyler]

Hookers throw into the lineout, so at the last forward to attach