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<blockquote data-quote="dirty harry" data-source="post: 1223089" data-attributes="member: 86934">This was an interesting read...The concensus in rugby has always been a boot can be used to regather, I remember discussing that in my ref days. There was famous incident many years ago involving Ugo Monye, flying down the wing, pass came to him, he juggled before losing it forward, but managed to poke a toe to it and scoring. It was deemed a knock on, because the contact he made with his toe wasn&#039;t an attempt to regather, it was a stabbing motion to avoid a knock on, which most refs would have allowed. Infact I remember debating this 15 years ago with level 2 refs at the time, and the ref educator couldn&#039;t give a solid answer tbh.There was also a famous Hadley Parkes disallowed try, where he juggled the ball twice before soft slapping it as a pass to someone to score. No interference, nothing forward, it was just deemed he didn&#039;t attempt to regather before the pass.This just seems like another, of many cases where ref interpretations are more important than the laws themselves. For refs to determine intent, or what constitutes an attempt to regather is impossible in reality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dirty harry, post: 1223089, member: 86934"] This was an interesting read... The concensus in rugby has always been a boot can be used to regather, I remember discussing that in my ref days. There was famous incident many years ago involving Ugo Monye, flying down the wing, pass came to him, he juggled before losing it forward, but managed to poke a toe to it and scoring. It was deemed a knock on, because the contact he made with his toe wasn't an attempt to regather, it was a stabbing motion to avoid a knock on, which most refs would have allowed. Infact I remember debating this 15 years ago with level 2 refs at the time, and the ref educator couldn't give a solid answer tbh. There was also a famous Hadley Parkes disallowed try, where he juggled the ball twice before soft slapping it as a pass to someone to score. No interference, nothing forward, it was just deemed he didn't attempt to regather before the pass. This just seems like another, of many cases where ref interpretations are more important than the laws themselves. For refs to determine intent, or what constitutes an attempt to regather is impossible in reality. [/QUOTE]

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