Just seen the tries from Sunday an Boots n all and can't believe how far forward brough's passes to hodgson were for his 2nd and 3rd tries. Both times brough was behind the 10 metre line when he passed and both times hodgson caught the ball about 8 metres from the line. Why do we have touch judges?

seen in every match these days for and against FC

i saw one of richards' tries against rovers was forward, I think they're being leniant due to the popularity of the flat pass, I guess the touch judges just look which way the ball is spinning, if it's spinning backwards it may appear that it going forward was not intentional, if that makes sense

Oh, that's alright then

To make the referees look good.

I get the momentum rule but brough was more or less stood still with these 2

write to the RFL

Don't play forward passes anymore do we ?

It's getting like Union

It's worse than union

I don't see the point in linesmen, they do nothing, are they scared to speak up or something? Everyone in the stadium can see the forward passes, and the linesmen are in perfect positions to see them also yet they do nothing

FFS, apart from Stevo's imagination there is not nor ever has been a "momentum rule". A pass is deemed forward in relation to the man making the pass, not the flight of the ball. It doesn't matter if the ball is caught 20 metres forward of the passer, providing the player passing the ball did not propel it towards his oponents' dead ball line.



Look to the position of the passing player's hands, once the ball has left them, the flight of the ball is completely irrelevant