Re: Super League Backchat : Wed Mar 19, 2014 9:14 pm  

Some are easy to detect.
The HKR forward pass at Wigan was very easy to spot.
The soccer markings of the 6 yard area were there and the passer passed the ball outside the 6 yard area and the guy who caught it was well inside the six yard area.
Anywhere on the field where there is a line across the field of which there are plenty would be a good indicater if a pass is forward or not.

Re: Super League Backchat : Wed Mar 19, 2014 9:18 pm  

Father Ted wrote:

Some are easy to detect.
The HKR forward pass at Wigan was very easy to spot.
The soccer markings of the 6 yard area were there and the passer passed the ball outside the 6 yard area and the guy who caught it was well inside the six yard area.
Anywhere on the field where there is a line across the field of which there are plenty would be a good indicater if a pass is forward or not.

Forward passes are not judged in that way. It's all to do with the hands.

Re: Super League Backchat : Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:59 pm  

Father Ted wrote:

Some are easy to detect.
The HKR forward pass at Wigan was very easy to spot.
The soccer markings of the 6 yard area were there and the passer passed the ball outside the 6 yard area and the guy who caught it was well inside the six yard area.
Anywhere on the field where there is a line across the field of which there are plenty would be a good indicater if a pass is forward or not.

Argggggghhh why is it that the idea of a "forward pass" is still misunderstood by so many people. THE LINES ON THE PITCH CAN NOT BE USED TO DETERMINE IF A PASS IS FORWARD!
If a player is running forward quickly then the ball leaving his hands will always land in front of the place it was passed- momentum-it's a rule of physics not the RFL or stevo.

Re: Super League Backchat : Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:09 am  

Father Ted wrote:

Some are easy to detect.
The HKR forward pass at Wigan was very easy to spot.
The soccer markings of the 6 yard area were there and the passer passed the ball outside the 6 yard area and the guy who caught it was well inside the six yard area.
Anywhere on the field where there is a line across the field of which there are plenty would be a good indicater if a pass is forward or not.

I hope you know more about religion than you do about physics or the rules of RL.
Type 'Rugby Union Forward Pass Video' into YouTube. Other video sharing sites are available.

[Bullseye]

Re: Super League Backchat : Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:47 pm  

jools wrote:

Argggggghhh why is it that the idea of a "forward pass" is still misunderstood by so many people. THE LINES ON THE PITCH CAN NOT BE USED TO DETERMINE IF A PASS IS FORWARD!
If a player is running forward quickly then the ball leaving his hands will always land in front of the place it was passed- momentum-it's a rule of physics not the RFL or stevo.

You're wasting your breath. Some people will never get it.

[Pumpetypump]

Re: Super League Backchat : Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:50 pm  

How cum ref can judge if a kick has gon forward but knot a pass?

Re: Super League Backchat : Thu Mar 20, 2014 1:16 pm  

So basically what you are all saying is that a forward pass is actually not a forward pass anymore? So everything I was taught when playing rugby about the ball having to go backwards is actually not true?
It's like an episode of QI!

Re: Super League Backchat : Thu Mar 20, 2014 1:26 pm  

I think the rule needs amending to make players stop before passing the ball,
then we could go to the video ref for forward passes.

Re: Super League Backchat : Thu Mar 20, 2014 2:09 pm  

I don't get the love in with VRs one bit. Do we really need them?

Re: Super League Backchat : Thu Mar 20, 2014 2:21 pm  

I totally get that the momentum rule makes line markings invalid but I still don't see how having one view of the action at full speed is preferable to multiple angles slowed down if you want to see how the ball left the player's hands.

I'm not advocating an increase in the use of VR per se, but I've never understood this aspect