Back in the news on social media, questioning validity ? Magic weekend, blatant forward passes.

Modern day rules are the real problem, a player used to have to be behind the player with ball before he passed, thus the ball was/had to be passed in a backward line, thus easy for the Ref to judge & make a call !

Nowadays, when a flat pass is allowed, that becomes difficult to judge, then we start with momentum & how the players hands were ?

Go back to the original rules, less problems easier calls ! The Leeds match forward pass was ridiculas, the player passing passed 1& a half meters before reaching the 20m line, he passed & the ball not only went forward before touching the floor but it rolled last the line by at least a foot & was then picked up, forward pass by some distance, it was not a close call! Once again poor officiating & unfair to the defending team !

I suppose someone will try to defend modern rules etc, etc.

what really is frustrating is the video ref cannot call a blatant forward pass when reviewing a try

Every rugby league supporter should watch this https://youtu.be/box08lq9ylg

Every rugby league supporter should watch this https://youtu.be/box08lq9ylg

What a crap post total anti Leeds trolling, the lengths some will go with there agenda is laughable.



The rules are simple the ball must be passed backwards out of the gands back towards your own try line, where the ball travels in relation to the ground is totally irrelevant.



I know lets make every player stop running before passing turn around and pass it back, as some fans have no concept of how physics work.



Lets make them change the rules just because Leeds won a game i was baying fir them to loose. (Insert other teams fans like to hate Wigan usually and sometimes warrington)

Quote jools="jools"Every rugby league supporter should watch this https://youtu.be/box08lq9ylg'" Trouble with posting stuff like this and pointing out hard facts is, people with their own agenda just will only believe what they want anyway, like brexiters who still believe we give the EU £350 a week even though its been proven to be a lie. ( other famous lies are available examples france just gave up entirley in WWII, and Dunkirk was a victory definatly not Britain running away)

Quote jools="jools"Every rugby league supporter should watch this https://youtu.be/box08lq9ylg'" Trouble with posting stuff like this and pointing out hard facts is, people with their own agenda just will only believe what they want anyway, like brexiters who still believe we give the EU £350 a week even though its been proven to be a lie. ( other famous lies are available examples france just gave up entirley in WWII, and Dunkirk was a victory definatly not Britain running away)

Team irrelevant, it's all teams, if the ball goes forward deliberately, it's a forward pass, if the ball then touches the ground it's a knock - on ! If this is to be discounted, there is NO such thing as a forward pass or a knock - on & change the rules, no more calls everyone gets on with it & all can do what they want, I would be in favour, because you can always score !

Quote jools="jools"Every rugby league supporter should watch this https://youtu.be/box08lq9ylg'" Thought i was watching the Wakey v catalans highlights there, To me if Yawnion can use video refs for the [ublatant[/u forward passes then why can't the bloody hell we do the same especially when some are so blatant obvious OR is it just too easy for the video ref/ 4th official to tell the match ref it was blatantly forward and disallow it.

Quote jools="jools"Every rugby league supporter should watch this https://youtu.be/box08lq9ylg'" Thought i was watching the Wakey v catalans highlights there, To me if Yawnion can use video refs for the [ublatant[/u forward passes then why can't the bloody hell we do the same especially when some are so blatant obvious OR is it just too easy for the video ref/ 4th official to tell the match ref it was blatantly forward and disallow it.

Jesus H, like Jools said, watch the bleedin video.

Momentum as Stevo would have said .

Let’s get grid lines on all pitches , problem solved .

A couple of feet is momentum, but the fact the ball bounces a meter in front of it's intended recipient, who was travelling at the same speed as the passer and was 2 Meters behind him when the ball was passed, points to this being a forward pass, pure and simple.



London deserved to lose, because as usual they started both half's 10 minutes late, but Leeds can consider themselves very lucky if this decision either turns their season around or simply keeps them up......

To be fair Jools doesn’t understand Holiday Insurance .

For me it's not about who deserves to win, it's about not having blatant bad decisions prospering, if players & coaches can be charged for bringing the game into disrepute, then to have blatant bad decisions on a consistent basis, also brings the game into disrepute.

There is another way to view forward pass, over running, ball drift momentum with an overhead camera for the odd occasion reference is needed ! A few frames & technology could determine once set - up via a computer to video screen.