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<blockquote data-quote="Darwin" data-source="post: 652916" data-attributes="member: 24910"><p>Here are the relevant laws (I have bolded the relevant parts)</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.irblaws.com/index.php?law=9" target="_blank"><span style="color: #008000"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Law 9.A Scoring points</span></strong></span></a></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>Try. </strong>When an attacking player is first to <strong>ground the ball</strong> in the opponents' in-goal, a try is scored.<a href="http://www.irblaws.com/content/video_popup_ver6.php?v=laws/2018-try" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.irblaws.com/images/elements/video.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.irblaws.com/index.php?law=22" target="_blank"><span style="color: #008000"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Law 22.1 Grounding the ball</span></strong></span></a></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><img src="http://www.irblaws.com/images/laws/grounding-the-ball.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><strong><em></em></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong><em>Grounding the ball</em></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">There are two ways a player can ground the ball:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">(a) Player touches the ground with the ball. <strong>A player grounds the ball by holding the ball and touching the ground with it</strong>, in in-goal. 'Holding' means holding in the hand or hands, or in the arm or arms. No downward pressure is required.<a href="http://www.irblaws.com/content/video_popup_ver6.php?v=laws/2366-grounding" target="_blank">1<img src="http://www.irblaws.com/images/elements/video.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="http://www.irblaws.com/content/video_popup_ver6.php?v=laws/2367-grounding" target="_blank">2<img src="http://www.irblaws.com/images/elements/video.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">(b) Player presses down on the ball. A player grounds the ball when it is <strong>on the ground in the in-goal and the player presses down on it</strong> with a hand or hands, arm or arms, or the front of the player's body from waist to neck inclusive.<a href="http://www.irblaws.com/content/video_popup_ver6.php?v=laws/2368-presses-down" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.irblaws.com/images/elements/video.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Personally I agree the Farrell incident is more interesting. To me it was a clear maul (and Farrell did a great job of holding the ball up!), but I suppose the only judge of what is or isn't a maul these days is the referee. I don't agree with the yellow card as I don't believe it was a deliberate infringement by Farrell - IMO Farrell thought he was legally holding the ball up.....</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2A3333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darwin, post: 652916, member: 24910"] Here are the relevant laws (I have bolded the relevant parts) [URL="http://www.irblaws.com/index.php?law=9"][COLOR=#008000][B][FONT=Verdana]Law 9.A Scoring points[/FONT][/B][/COLOR][/URL] [COLOR=#2A3333][FONT=Verdana] [B]Try. [/B]When an attacking player is first to [B]ground the ball[/B] in the opponents’ in-goal, a try is scored.[URL="http://www.irblaws.com/content/video_popup_ver6.php?v=laws/2018-try"][IMG]http://www.irblaws.com/images/elements/video.png[/IMG][/URL] [/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.irblaws.com/index.php?law=22"][COLOR=#008000][B][FONT=Verdana]Law 22.1 Grounding the ball[/FONT][/B][/COLOR][/URL] [COLOR=#2A3333][FONT=Verdana][IMG]http://www.irblaws.com/images/laws/grounding-the-ball.jpg[/IMG][B][I] Grounding the ball[/I][/B] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#2A3333][FONT=Verdana]There are two ways a player can ground the ball:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#2A3333][FONT=Verdana](a) Player touches the ground with the ball. [B]A player grounds the ball by holding the ball and touching the ground with it[/B], in in-goal. ‘Holding’ means holding in the hand or hands, or in the arm or arms. No downward pressure is required.[URL="http://www.irblaws.com/content/video_popup_ver6.php?v=laws/2366-grounding"]1[IMG]http://www.irblaws.com/images/elements/video.png[/IMG][/URL][URL="http://www.irblaws.com/content/video_popup_ver6.php?v=laws/2367-grounding"]2[IMG]http://www.irblaws.com/images/elements/video.png[/IMG][/URL] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#2A3333][FONT=Verdana](b) Player presses down on the ball. A player grounds the ball when it is [B]on the ground in the in-goal and the player presses down on it[/B] with a hand or hands, arm or arms, or the front of the player’s body from waist to neck inclusive.[URL="http://www.irblaws.com/content/video_popup_ver6.php?v=laws/2368-presses-down"][IMG]http://www.irblaws.com/images/elements/video.png[/IMG][/URL] Personally I agree the Farrell incident is more interesting. To me it was a clear maul (and Farrell did a great job of holding the ball up!), but I suppose the only judge of what is or isn't a maul these days is the referee. I don't agree with the yellow card as I don't believe it was a deliberate infringement by Farrell - IMO Farrell thought he was legally holding the ball up..... [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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