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Yesterday I made a comment about going into touch (Was permission granted Ecky?) and it made me wonder, why do we say 'into touch' when logic would suggest it is going 'out of touch' - ie play cannot continue and the players cannot touch it pending direction from the ref?
From Wiki
"Touch is the area outside two touch-lines which define the sides of the playing area in a game of rugby football. As the touch-lines are not part of the playing area they are usually included as part of touch.
When a ball is "kicked into touch", it means that it has been kicked out of the playing area into the touch area. In American sports usage, the phrase "out of bounds" signifies the same as "touch."
“Everyone knows whether it’s rugby, politics or whatever, front-rowers should rule the world, so to have a hooker at the helm makes sense,” Nathan Charles Western Force & Wallabies Hooker.
The one that gets me is "Dummy" be it Dummy Pass, Dummy Runner, Dummy Half (in league) what the hell has Dummy got to do with rugby?
“Everyone knows whether it’s rugby, politics or whatever, front-rowers should rule the world, so to have a hooker at the helm makes sense,” Nathan Charles Western Force & Wallabies Hooker.
Making sense of some of the terminology and laws is clearly a futile objective as it is obvious our forefathers were in a pub, and had been for some time, when they invented this great game.![]()
Just happy to be here
“Everyone knows whether it’s rugby, politics or whatever, front-rowers should rule the world, so to have a hooker at the helm makes sense,” Nathan Charles Western Force & Wallabies Hooker.
I love self assessment.
I always thought dummy kinda meant fake, or not real. Dummy half = not scrum half, dummy pass = fake pass, babys dummy = fake booby ...
Dear Lord, if you give us back Johnny Cash, we'll give you Justin Bieber.
Reminds me of explanation of cricket:
You're in (the pavilion) until you go out when you're in. Once you get out you come back in.
Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon
It's going to be a long off season at this rate......![]()
In the good old US of A , what is a Dummy half called there???
Pacifier half? As if.
snap frozen yank.