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Okay, I agree with all of that, and you have learned from this experience and will be a better official for it.
Given your information about how this play began, I would now add that the new Lead should have been focused on the players furthest down the court and not in the back corner. I would certainly have been no closer to you than the division line as the new Lead.
Had the play been from a missed try for goal, then the Lead needs to stay and officiate the rebounding activity and will have responsibility for OOB along that sideline after a defensive rebound until the old Lead, now the new Trail, can get out wide enough to cover that. In my mind that would be the only reason for the new Lead to be looking at this play. He could have been checking to make sure that none of the players violated by stepping OOB on the sideline, and seen the dribbler fall.
However, since this play occurred under circumstances in which the new Trail could obtain the proper position for covering a sideline OOB during the throw-in, I agree with you that he was likely ball-watching.
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