Rugby rules?

Question

Once a scrum half has retreived a ball from the scrum can the opposing scrum half kick it out of his hands

Answer 1

Alex J and Simon D are right to cite the law on this as it's borderline dangerous play but if you successfully manage to regain possession or force the opposition to hack the ball into touch as a result of disrupting the other scrum half then your teammates are going to be happy and you're likely to be able to put your pack in a better position and ultimately score points if you pull it off.

Unfortunately as some people have said, if you miss your target and end up booting the other number 9 or the number 8 in the head then you're likely to a) get a shoeing from the opposition number 8 who is bigger, uglier and stronger than you are and b) get sin binned. Probably both but if it does kick off, at least you can hope that you'll take the number 8 down with you!

I've never been sin binned and my forté is causing disruption at the base of the scrum in defence. Everything from toe punting the ball from their 9's hands to tugging on his sleeve, performing hair removal on the back of his knees, hooking my foot around his and dropping my knee into the back of his knee (this isn't dangerout but makes the hand providing power for the pass drop towards you and the guiding hand raise upwards - he'll send out a pass that goes nowhere if you pull this off).

Be careful when following the ball around the scrum too. You're not allowed to pass the line of where the ball is and the ball will rarely be called "out" of a scrum until the no.8 or 9 have touched it themselves. Also be wary of where you are and what is feasible. If the hooker gets a clean strike on the ball and the scrum half has an easy pass to make quickly you've probably be better off charging at the fly-half and trying to push him on your inside to face your openside and no.8.

Answer 2

Just to add to bulletballs answer. Rugby is played by two teams of 15 players, 1-8 are known as forwards and 9-15 known as back although each number has its own name: 1+3 - props 2 - hooker 4+5 - second row 6+7 - flanker 8 - number 8 9 - scrum half 10 - fly half 11 - left wing 12 - inside centre 13 - outside centre 14 - right wing 15 - full back The game is played over 80 minutes (two halves of 40mins) with no extra time on the end. A yellow card is given to players who consistently break rules and gives the player a punishment of 10 mins in the 'sin bin', a red card sends the player off for the rest of the match. The referee can award penalties and free kicks (note a 'mark' awards a free kick not a penalty) when rules are broken and gives the other team the option to kick the ball into touch, feed a scrum, run the ball or with a penalty, kick at goal. Also, the ball can only be passed backwards. Can't think of anything else now!

Answer 3

The relevent laws of the game are:

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Any player may throw or kick the ball

10.4c

A player must not kick an opponent

20.9g

Scrum half may not kick the ball while it is in the scrum

20.10

The Scrum ends when the ball comes out of the scrum in any direction except the tunnel.

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Therefore my understanding is once the ball is out of the scrum the opposite scrumhalf is free to kick the ball as long as he doesn't kick the player.

Answer 4

Legal unless the referee decides to call dangerous play.
If it's just a toe-tap to upset the No. 9 whilst fending off the No. 8 he better hope he gets the ball and not the face.
It is in most scrum-halves repertoire.

Answer 5

I dont think you can kick the ball out of anyones hands!

Answer 6

to kick a ball out of anybodies hands normally puts you in the sin bin

Answer 7

No he canot kick it out of the Oppositions hands unless the Referee says that the ballis out.

Answer 8

no he can only tackle or rip the ball from the scrumhalfs hands