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Advantage

Know how to use advantage in rugby games. Know and understand why you must play to the whistle.

Aim of the rule

The aim of this rule is to encourage attacking play and to prevent teams from benefitting by breaking the rules.

If one team breaks the rules, play normally stops and some form of penalty given against that team.

In some cases that may hurt the opposing team.

Say one team breaks the rules but, before the whistle can be blown, the other team gets the ball and scores. It would be unfair to
the scoring team to disallow the try.

To take care of this situation and even extend it, the match official may allow play to continue even after the rules have clearly been broken.

How it works

When the rules are broken, the match official...

Stops the game if letting play continue will not help the other team. The rule breakers are penalised.

Allows play to continue if there is a possibility that the other team may benefit. If the other team does benefit, play just continues as if the rules have not been broken. If the other team does not benefit, play stops and is restarted at the place where the rules were broken. The rule breakers are penalised.

So remember...

PLAY TO THE WHISTLE!!!

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