Question for our snooker buffs

[Q]

I recently attended an open day at the village snooker club, the league has lost a couple of teams and they were hoping to recruit a 'B' team, long story short they now have 10 extra regular players on practice nights, some have never played before and some are quite good, 'B' team sorted, weirdly I have been picked to play the first league game but I have a question regarding rules.

If you are awarded a free ball after a foul and there is a red hanging over a pocket that you cant see are you allowed to nominate a colour (blue for instance) and plant that ball onto the red to pot it?

I was told that would be a foul but my reckoning is that the free ball becomes a red so red on red plant should be legal.

Does anyone know the definitive answer?

[Chris_Sav]

You are correct and if both go in then two points are scored as there are more than one red balls.

However if the same happens on a colour then only one counts as there is only one of each colour.