Quote ="CM Punk"The video did confirm a forward pass in the buildup to Patrick's first try, as I thought at the time. Ah well, you win some, you lose some.
Credit to the Huddersfield lads singing on the train to Manchester, probably the best rendition of "Boom, Shake the room" that I've ever heard.
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"The Video" did no such thing, simply because it cannot, which is why forward passes are not referred to Video ref. A 2D image makes it extremely unreliable.
The pass may or may not have been forward, I don't know, however your judgement at the time is more likely to be reliable than than video for these decisions, I can't really explain the inner workings of the human brain, but for some reason with a 2D image spacial relationships can be confused you can see what you expect, but perhaps the Giants got lucky with that call, we will be unlucky in others, that is certain.
Tbh there are numerous passes each game that look forward to me, especially out of Dummy half. Like many this one wasn't called by the ref or linesmen.
You could equally speculate that had Farrell been sin-binned or sent off the Giants would have won by more! That wasn't given either (ironically had he been sin binned he would have missed 10 minutes not this weeks match which is somewhat iniquitous).
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