Touch Judging

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Touch Judging

• How hard can it be?

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Three Main Responsibilities

• Run Touch
• Report on Foul Play
• Render other assistance to the referee
• The fourth dimension Working with Comms.

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Running TouchThings we commonly get wrong

• One foot in one foot out whose ball?
• What is In the 22 is foot on the line in?
• Corner post is touch-in-goal the flag is not
• Refer to the new publication, Line Ball Your Call

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If the ball, which has crossed the
plain-of-touch, touches a player beyond the
touch-line, regardless of whether the player is
on the ground or jumping in the air. The ball has
been put in-touch by the kicking team.
If a player has one foot in the field-of-play and
one foot in-touch, and catches the ball, the team
that kicked the ball has put the ball in-touch.
The non kicking team has the throw-in at the
line-out.
The only situation where play continues after the
ball contacts a player beyond the touch-line is
where the ball has not crossed the plane-of-touch
and the player plays the ball but does not catch
it.
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When is a player jumping in the air considered to
be out?

• When his body is beyond the touch line.

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Law 19 In Touch

• In-touch
• Throw-in to Gold team
• Out on the full.

IN
OUT
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Law 19 In Touch
IN
Catches ball in air, then lands

• In-touch
• Throw-in to Gold team.

OUT
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Law 19 In Touch
IN

• Play on
• May kick or propel it but not hold it.

OUT
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Law 19 In Touch

• Out
• Crossed plane-of-touch
• person beyond it.
• Gold kick.

IN
OUT
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Law 19 In Touch
IN

• Out
• The ball has crossed the touchline touched
  something beyond it

OUT
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Law 19 In Touch
IN

• In-touch
• Gold ball.

OUT
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Law 19 In Touch
IN

• Play on.

OUT
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Law 19 In TouchSummary

• If the ball touches a player beyond the touchline
  the ball is in touch
• Doesnt matter whether the player beyond the
  touchline is in the air or not
• Ball caught on the touchline, one foot in, one
  foot out, is throw to non-kicking team

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Law 19 In TouchSummary

• Play ONLY continues after the ball has contacted
  a player beyond the touchline where the ball has
  NOT crossed the plane of touch and the player
  plays the ball but does not catch it

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(Thats this one)
IN

• Play on
• May kick or propel it but not hold it.

OUT
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Mark touch using the lines on the field

• Why?
• Makes management on the lineout for the referee
  easier
• What do players think of it? 1m here, -1m there?
• Players are generally intelligent enough to
  understand what you are trying to achieve. Do it
  consistently and it will cut both ways.

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Managing the hooker who puts his foot into the
field of play when he throws the ball in

• Is it manifestly, obviously, unfair (for example,
  a full step in helps him make a better, cleaner
  throw?
• If the answer is no, let it go, keep an eye on it
• If yes, manage the situation

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Managing the hooker who puts his foot into the
field of play when he throws the ball in

• Talk to the hooker
• Be brief and matter of fact
• Be polite
• Ask him before he gets busy. Leave it until next
  lineout if you notice it late
• No co-operation?
• Is it still manifestly unfair?
• Ask again
• Only after you have tried all this bother the ref
  with it.

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Position at Lineout
Position at Lineout
15m
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
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Position at Lineout
Alt Position at Lineout
15m
R
Alt position gives alternative perspective to
ref at rear of L/O
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
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Position at Lineout
Alt Position at Lineout
15m
R
Particularly important to move quickly to
Position 2 to get angle, perspective, and a line
of sight out of the traffic
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
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Position at Lineout
Alt Position at Lineout
15m
R
Particularly important to move quickly to
Position 2 to get angle, perspective, and a line
of sight out of the traffic
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
-
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Position at Lineout
Alt Position at Lineout
15m
R
Particularly important to move quickly to
Position 2 to get angle, perspective, and a line
of sight out of the traffic
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
-
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Position at Lineout
Alt Position at Lineout
15m
R
Particularly important to move quickly to
Position 2 to get angle, perspective, and a line
of sight out of the traffic
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
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Position at Lineout
Alt Position at Lineout
15m
R
Particularly important to move quickly to
Position 2 to get angle, perspective, and a line
of sight out of the traffic
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
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Position at Lineout
Alt Position at Lineout
15m
R
Particularly important to move quickly to
Position 2 to get angle, perspective, and a line
of sight out of the traffic
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
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Position at Lineout
Alt Position at Lineout
15m
R
Particularly important to move quickly to
Position 2 to get angle, perspective, and a line
of sight out of the traffic
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
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Position at Lineout
Alt Position at Lineout
15m
R
Particularly important to move quickly to
Position 2 to get angle, perspective, and a line
of sight out of the traffic
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
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Position at Lineout
Alt Position at Lineout
15m
R
Particularly important to move quickly to
Position 2 to get angle, perspective, and a line
of sight out of the traffic
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
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Position at Lineout
Alt Position at Lineout
15m
R
Particularly important to move quickly to
Position 2 to get angle, perspective, and a line
of sight out of the traffic
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
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Position at Lineout
Alt Position at Lineout
15m
R
Particularly important to move quickly to
Position 2 to get angle, perspective, and a line
of sight out of the traffic
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
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Position at Lineout
R
Alt Position at Lineout
15m
Particularly important to move quickly to
Position 2 to get angle, perspective, and a line
of sight out of the traffic
9
5m
9
2
Touch
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2
TJ
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Some juicy foul play incidents,

• or what the Touch Judge saw when the referee
  wasnt looking