A player making a deliberate attempt to propel the ball may not play the ball back towards their own goal, unless the player and the ball are within and stay within the Tightly-Formed-Bully (see N-1) or the player is taking a Free-kick (G-1).
If the ball travels backwards after a deliberate attempt to propel the ball (when the intention was to play it forward), the player who had attempted to propel it must be the next member of that team to play it.
The ball may travel backwards off a player after a deliberate attempt to play the ball in a tackle situation when the tackling player (from whom it spills backwards) was not trying to propel it forward.
Penalties:
For deliberate offences (see U-1 and N1-4): Free-kick from where the ball was played resulting in its backward movement.
For non-deliberate offences (see U-2): Set-Piece-Bully. Either from where the ball was played resulting in its backward movement (if the playing and the receiving of the backwards moving ball were both non-deliberate offences), OR, in cases when a side DELIBERATELY concedes the offence, where it was received subsequent to being played backwards.
N.B.
1. The Free Kick is to be used only in the VERY RARE instance of a deliberate back pass (U-1).
2. If a ball-played-backwards is “received” (by a player of the same team) on the 3-yard-line, this is not deemed to be an offence “on-the-line”; i.e. no Penalty point is awarded, but the Set-Piece-Bully resulting from the back pass will be on the 3-yard-line. Similarly, if a player prevents a Goal (or prevents the ball’s becoming Rougeable) from a ball played backwards, this does not result in a penalty otherwise associated with infringements incurred to prevent scoring.