But there [iis[/i a definitive answer. It's in the Laws of the Game.


It's not about being 'old school'. It's about ignoring the real world. You can throw a ball backwards and it will still travel forwards relative to the ground. It really is very simple and something you experience all the time in everyday life.


The Forward Pass Law hasn't been changed.

I've come to the conclusion that some people just don't [iwant[/i to understand. They prefer being able to shout "FORRRWARRRD!" every time a pass (only by an opposition player, mind) drifts so much as a millimetre towards the opposition sticks.

There needs to be a forward pass campaign to create forward pass awareness!

Looked forward to me.

He passes it on the 20 metre line and Monaghan catches it after the 20metre line....FORWARD PASS.

It is Paul....no amount of old fanny will change the fact it was a bloody mile forward.

They were both moving forward..... oh, forget it!

You could do that with a perfectly legal pass if you were running fast enough and passed sideways.

As I said, at full speed I'd have called that forward. With freeze frame it might be legal. In play you'd expect that to be called forward TBH.

OK, with numbers;

If a player is running at 10mph (might be fast but is a good example) this equates to 4.5 metres per second,

If they pass the ball exactly level (assuming no wind resistance), it will continue to move forward 4.5 metres for every second that it is airborne,

If the ball is in the air for 1 second, and passed exactly level, it will have moved 4.5 meters past the place where the player passed it

jesus we need physics geeks not video refs

its only the same as crashing your car and not wearing a seat belt - the car stops, you continue to move

I think that's possibly the best way I've ever heard of describing it to Joe Public!

should have added,

"through the windscreen"

tonight i was i watched part of the union currie cup match and the video ref disallowed a try for a forward pass yet here it caan t be done

Julie knew her killer...

I like it - how many pages are we in on The FOWARD pass - If its forward its a bloody mile forward - No physics - no verocity - no momentum.

Velocity even - apologies.

And you continue to move in which direction?????

Hahaha...i'll leave all and sundry to give the answer, but as a hint, it beggins with 'F'


I rest my case!

But it isnt passed forward, the momentum comes purely from the speed the vehicle was moving...............

You're really not getting this. With your stance the only way you'll ever truly be able to eradicate forward passes is to go like netball and ban players from moving with the ball.

no it's string theory that is the RFL's fault - they're okay with your basic Newtonian laws.

exactly, BASIC

Haha, OK. We need to get Dr Sheldon Cooper to do a presentation on it then.

Oh god don't set him off