Hey Guys
In an U19s game today the centre of the oposition team was sent off for a spear tackle. It was justified and I think he deserved it!
What i have a problem with is that cause the centre was no longer there the team put their blind side flanker there to fill the gap which left them 7 players for scrums and lineouts. The ref then proceeded to tell my team that we needed to reduce the number of players in our lineout and scrums!
Is this correct?
Now cause we didn't have the most dominant scrum we suffered and we turned over a lot of ball at scrum times which gave them the advantage the whole game? Now shouldn't we have had the advantage of having the extra man? If they chose to put the extra man into the backline shouldn't we have been allowed to have 8 men in the scrum?
They had 8 forwards on the paddock but not in the scrum/lineouts....
Any help on this would be good.
Cheers
Paul
In an U19s game today the centre of the oposition team was sent off for a spear tackle. It was justified and I think he deserved it!
What i have a problem with is that cause the centre was no longer there the team put their blind side flanker there to fill the gap which left them 7 players for scrums and lineouts. The ref then proceeded to tell my team that we needed to reduce the number of players in our lineout and scrums!
Is this correct?
Now cause we didn't have the most dominant scrum we suffered and we turned over a lot of ball at scrum times which gave them the advantage the whole game? Now shouldn't we have had the advantage of having the extra man? If they chose to put the extra man into the backline shouldn't we have been allowed to have 8 men in the scrum?
They had 8 forwards on the paddock but not in the scrum/lineouts....
Any help on this would be good.
Cheers
Paul