Quote ="bentleberry"Goal Line Drop outs
The ball is touch in goal when it touches the corner post, in goal line or any object on or outside the touch in goal line. A player is NOT considered to be an ‘object’.
Where the ball which is stationary in the in-goal area comes into contact with a player in touch in goal or over the dead ball line, the ball is deemed to have been made dead by that player.
The ball must have bounced on the ground either on or over the dead ball line/touch in goal line for a 20m restart to be awarded. Should the non-kicking team touch the ball whilst playing at it before this happens then a drop out will be awarded.'"
So a player catches the ball a yard or two behind the deadball line but before it bounces, that becomes a goal-line drop out?
But if a player leaves that ball to bounce and it goes to a ballboy or touches someone in the crowd he cannot have a quick tap. So we have pretty much just gotten rid of the quick tap from the twenty?
