Is this correct?

[bluenose1940]

I have just been told by a fellow player that if you pot a red and the white comes to rest actually touching one of the colours, you cannot nominate that colour as being your next choice of shot. You must nominate another colour and be sure to hit it, otherwise a foul will be called.

All of the time that I have been playing the game, on the vary rare occasion that this has occurred, particularly when most of the reds are still on the table, I have potted a red and the cue ball has come to rest touching the black, I and indeed my playing partner if it were he in play, would have said with a big smile on our faces "well I'm on the black" and would then have proceeded to regard the situation as a 'touching ball' and would have played away, ensuring that the black did not move.

Are we right or wrong?

[jrc750]

If it's touching a colour, you can nominate that colour and play away, as long as that colour doesn't move it's ok

[DeanH]

If it's touching a colour, you can nominate that colour and play away, as long as that colour doesn't move it's ok

+1
After potting a red, end up touching a colour, that said colour can be nominated as ball on and the player plays away from that ball so it doesn't move.
It is funny what some people come out with as rules as they see them

[DawRef]

8. Touching Ball
(a) If at the completion of a stroke the cue-ball is touching a ball or balls on, or that could be on, the referee shall state TOUCHING BALL and indicate which ball or balls on the cue-ball is touching. If the cue-ball is touching one or more colours after a Red (or a free ball nominated as a Red) has been potted, the referee shall also ask the striker to DECLARE which colour he is on.
(b) When a touching ball has been called, the striker must play the cue-ball away from that ball without moving it or it is a push stroke.
(c) Providing the striker does not cause any touching object ball to move, there shall be no penalty if:
(i) the ball is on;
(ii) the ball could be on and the striker declares he is on it; or
(iii) the ball could be on and the striker declares, and first hits, another ball that could be on.
(d) If the cue-ball comes to rest touching or nearly touching a ball that is not on, the referee, if asked whether it is touching, will answer YES or NO. The striker must play away without disturbing it as above but must first hit a ball that is on.
(e) When the cue-ball is touching both a ball on and a ball not on, the referee shall only indicate the ball on as touching. If the striker should ask the referee whether the cue-ball is also touching the ball not on, he is entitled to be told.
(f) If the referee is satisfied that any movement of a touching ball at the moment of striking was not caused by the striker, he will not call a foul.
(g) If a stationary object ball, not touching the cue-ball when examined by the referee, is later seen to be in contact with the cue-ball before a stroke has been made, the balls shall be repositioned by the referee to his satisfaction. This also applies to a touching ball which later, when examined by the referee is not touching, the balls shall be repositioned by the referee to his satisfaction.

It is funny what some people come out with as rules as they see them

A lot of [older] players still think you replace the cue ball in the "D" and break off again if you do not hit the reds when starting a frame!!!

[bluenose1940]

Thank you folks, I/we will carry on as normal then.