Quick throw-ins

Law 19.2

It happened when France played Italy and a Frenchman stopped an Italian from throwing in quickly. So we have a simple test on the quick throw-in from touch.

You can find out all about quick throw-ins from touch all if you read Law 19.2, but we have provided some answers, just for checking purposes. Answer the questions before you look up the answers!

The match is between the Irish Heroes and the English Warriors, played at Seasdowne Road in Darkpool.

1. Jonny Montgomery of the English Warriors kicks the ball directly into touch from outside his 22. Five metres in touch Geordan Boru, the Irish Warriors fullback, catches the ball where it goes out, some 40 metres downfield from where Montgomery kicked the ball. Boru throws the ball in to Denis Sarsfield, the Irish Warriors wing, who is seven metres from the touchline.

You will:

a. let play go on.
b. have a line-out opposite where Montgomery kicked the ball
c. give the English Warriors the option of a scrum or a line-out.

2. Under pressure outside his 22, David Tone, the Irish Warriors fly-half, kicks the ball directly into touch some 15 metres from where he kicked it. Josh Kitchener catches the ball in touch. Standing in touch he passes the ball, still in touch, up the touch-line to Jason Harris, the English Warriors wing, who is in touch. Harris throws in quickly to Martin Wellington, the English Warriors captain.

You will:

a. let play go on.
b. have a line-out opposite where Tone kicked the ball
c. give the Irish Warriors the option of a scrum or a line-out.

3. Jonny Montgomery, five metres from his goalline, kicks the ball into touch 35 metres downfield. The ball rolls in touch and bounces back towards the touchline off an advertising board. Geordan Boru, the Irish Warriors fullback, gathers the ball in touch, turns and throws it in quickly to Denis Sarsfield, the Irish Warriors wing.

You will:

a. let play go on.
b. have a line-out where the ball went out, Irish Warriors ball
c. give the English Warriors the option of a scrum or a line-out.

4. Josh Kitchener, the English Warriors fullback, goes to take a quick throw-in from touch. As he does so, the ball slips from his hand, bounces four metres from touch and then bounces on a further seven metres.

You will:

a. let play go on
b. have a line-out at the place, English Warriors ball
c. give the Irish Warriors the option of a scrum or a line-out.

5. Geordan Boru, the Irish Warriors fullback, wants to take a quick throw-in from touch. Jason Harris, the flying English Warriors wing, stands a metre from the touch line, arms spread, preventing the throw in.

You will:

a. have a Kline-out, Irish Warriors ball
b. give the Irish Warriors the option of a scrum or a line-out
c. penalise the English Warriors
d. award a free-kick against the English Warriors.

6. Dennis Sarsfield of the Irish Warriors charges down the wing but Jason Harris of the English Warriors forces him into touch. Harris tries to get the ball from Sarsfield for a quick throw-in to his fullback Josh Kitchener who is calling for the ball. Sarsfield clings to the ball and refuses to let it go.

You will:

a. have a line-out, English Warriors ball
b. give the English Warriors the option of a scrum or a line-out
c. penalise the Irish Warriors
d. award a free-kick against the Irish Warriors

7. Geordan Boru of the Irish Warriors wants to take a quick throw-in. Standing at the line of throw are Malcolm Cúchulainn, the Irish Warriors lock and Anthony O'Neill, their No.8 as well as Richard Buller, the English Warriors flank. Boru throws in and Cúchulainn catches the ball.

You will:

a. let play go on.
b. have a line-out opposite where the ball went out
c. give the English Warriors the option of a scrum or a line-out.

8. After the English Warriors score, David Tone, the Irish Warriors fly-half, kicks off. He kicks off too far and the ball lands far over the touchline and bounces into the crowd. The English Warriors captain, Martin Wellington, says nothing but the forwards of both sides head for the middle of the half-way line, but Matt Gordon, the English Warriors scrum-half, grabs a ball from the ball boy, runs to the half-way line and throws in quickly from touch to Jason Harris, the English Warriors wing. Harris flies off.

You will:

a. let play go on
b. award a scrum to the English Warriors at the middle of the half-way line
c. award as scrum to the Irish Warriors at the middle of the half-way line
d. get the English Warriors captain, Martin Wellington, to decide whether he wants a scrum or a line-out

9. From just inside his 22 David Tone, the Irish Warriors fly-half, kicks far downfield. The ball goes into touch on the full just inside the English Warriors half. Jason Harris, the English Warriors wing, throws in quickly to Josh Kitchener, the English Warriors fullback. As Harris throws, Keith Parnell, the Irish Warriors flank, rushes forward some six metres and tackles Kitchener.

You will:

a. let play go on
b. have a line-out formed where the ball went out
c. award a penalty against the Irish Warriors where Parnell moved forward
d. give the English Warriors the option of a penalty where Parnell moved forward and a scrum where Tone kicked the ball.

10. After a line-out Peter Pearse, the Irish Warriors scrum-half, kicks the ball from outside his 22 directly into touch some 20 metres downfield. The forwards drift towards the place opposite where the ball was kicked and the touch judge is standing. Two of the English Warriors forwards are at the line of throw and three of the Irish Warriors forwards. Jason Harris of the English Warriors has fielded the ball in touch and from that position throws in quickly to Josh Kitchener, the English Warriors fullback.

You will:

a. let play go on
b. have a line-out formed opposite where Pearse kicked the ball, English Warriors ball
c. give the English Warriors the option of a scrum or a line-out
d. give the Irish Warriors the option of a scrum or a line-out.

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