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Cross kicking from a penalty?
I've seen this several times but most recently in the Currie up championship this weekend.
-penalty awarded within opposition's 22m
-one of the halves picks up the ball gets to the mark
-tap kicks then cross kicks to an open wing, flanker, etc.
-try time.
Here are my questions:
1)Is there any law that makes the half tap kick before cross kicking to his player?
2)Wouldn't crosskicking straight away provide a cushion? If he botched the kick and it went out of bounds, wouldn't a line out be awarded to his team?
Josh,
A good observation - the law states:
21.3 HOW THE PENALTY AND FREE KICKS ARE TAKEN
(a) Any player may take a penalty or free kick awarded for an infringement with any type of kick: punt, drop kick or place kick.
The ball may be kicked with any part of the lower leg from knee to the foot, excluding the knee and the heel.
This would seem to indicate that you are right.
Does anyone else have a view on this?
Simon
The only reason I could see that the SH or FH tapped before kicking was as a ploy if there was close forward runners, this automatically brings up the defence quicker giving space behind for a cross field kick.......
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