, if a player is bound in the ruck, and he puts his hand down and picks the ball up, you can’t play the ball with your hands in the ruck,” Owens explained. “If he wants to do that, he’s got to detach and then pick the ball up, which then means the ruck is over. If you want to pick up the ball, the ruck must be over.”
“The key difference , it’s not a ruck,” Owens continued. “You don’t have any Scottish players on their feet bound onto that New Zealand player. So you don’t have a ruck. What you have now is a tackle situation, and the law that we just discussed does not apply because it’s not a ruck.”
