Reds win, Boks win, Practice at HighPoint, Host Fort Worth on Saturday

The Division II Reds A-side defeated DARC's A-side 54-10. Same story in the B-side's, 43-0. But the B side game saw the return of several of the old guard, including former Captain Zack, who donated a little blood and stitches to the effort. Well done!

Boks win.

So, the Boks won the cup, but they couldn't score a try. "But I thought England had that try?" you ask.

I asked Referee Mark Woods about this.

It is quite simple really, as Cueto dove for the goal-line the tackler
caused his boot into contact with the touch-line. Even though his boot
only barely contacted the line this contact took Cueto into touch and
did so before he grounded the ball. Since the ball is in touch when
the ball carrier touches the touch-line or anything beyond it, the ball
was in touch before the try was scored. Since the referee was playing
advanatge at the time he came back for the penalty (going over the top
by Burger) which Wilkinson scored. If advantage was not being played
it would have been a 5m line-out to England.

The interesting thing is Law 22 (g):

Player in touch or touch-in-goal. If an attacking player is in
touch or in touch-in-goal, the player can score a try by grounding
the ball in the opponents’ in-goal provided the player is not
carrying the ball.

This is what I was misremembering when I thought it was a try too. If Cueto had not been carrying the ball, with his foot touching the line, he could have grounded the ball for a try. Here's the PDF of the law in question, and it has a picture as well.

Note for 2011: we WILL have an organized cup final watching festivity and there will be NO games scheduled.

Practice at Highpoint Park on Thursday!

Practice under the lights! It costs us money, so let's make the most out of it. Pay your dues! Donate if you can! And show up prepared to run, tackle, pass, etc.

Go to the Northwest most area of the park and look for rugby players!


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Hosting Fort Worth on Saturday

Saturday we host Fort Worth for our second 'cup' match, i.e., this game counts, even though there is no cup per se. Fort Worth was a division two team that stepped down to division three. Let's get out as much support for the boys as we can.