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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 782004" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>The Law in this case is</p><p></p><p>[TEXTAREA]22.7 RESTARTING AFTER A TOUCH DOWN</p><p>(a) When an attacking player sends or carries the ball into the opponents’ in-goal and it</p><p>becomes dead there, either because a defender grounded it or because it went into touchin-</p><p>goal or on or over the dead ball line, a drop-out is awarded[/TEXTAREA]</p><p></p><p>So when the attacking player* charges down the kick in the field of play* and the ball goes into in-goal, then it is the attacking player who causes the ball to go into his opponent's in-goal.</p><p></p><p></p><p>* An <em>"Attacking Player"</em> is any member of the <em>"Attacking Team"</em>, being the team in their opponent's half of the ground - Law General Definitions, page 4</p><p>* The <em>"Field of Play"</em> is the area between the goal lines and the touchlines. These lines are not part of the field of play. - Law 1 Definitions</p><p></p><p></p><p>Just an additional note on charge-downs. I often hear commentators say something like <em>"charge down, everyone is onside". </em>This is not so.</p><p></p><p>While every team-mate of the player whose kick was charged down are automatically onside no matter where they are one the field, any team-mate of the player who charged down the kick, and who were ahead of him, are still offside.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 782004, member: 20605"] The Law in this case is [TEXTAREA]22.7 RESTARTING AFTER A TOUCH DOWN (a) When an attacking player sends or carries the ball into the opponents’ in-goal and it becomes dead there, either because a defender grounded it or because it went into touchin- goal or on or over the dead ball line, a drop-out is awarded[/TEXTAREA] So when the attacking player* charges down the kick in the field of play* and the ball goes into in-goal, then it is the attacking player who causes the ball to go into his opponent's in-goal. * An [I]"Attacking Player"[/I] is any member of the [I]"Attacking Team"[/I], being the team in their opponent's half of the ground - Law General Definitions, page 4 * The [I]"Field of Play"[/I] is the area between the goal lines and the touchlines. These lines are not part of the field of play. - Law 1 Definitions Just an additional note on charge-downs. I often hear commentators say something like [I]"charge down, everyone is onside". [/I]This is not so. While every team-mate of the player whose kick was charged down are automatically onside no matter where they are one the field, any team-mate of the player who charged down the kick, and who were ahead of him, are still offside. [/QUOTE]
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