Quote: tvoc "And yet it was you who wished to use pitch markings as evidence of a forward pass when we both know they are almost always irrelevant as players tend to be moving rather than stood still when delivering the ball.'"
The fact that you have said "almost" always means that they aren't irrelevant to you.
The pitch markings cannot be used to determine a forward pass alone due to the "momentum" rule (that technically isn't anything to do with momentum, it's constant velocity). However, they can be used to estimate the velocity of the player and the ball and make a comparison.
To me, the main point is that the ball is ALWAYS in front of Webb. Had it been passed backwards, it would have been behind him at some point.
Quote: tvoc "Are you suggesting Webb speeded up after releasing the pass? '"
Webb was travelling both laterally
and towards the Hull line when he passed the ball. Webb doesn't appear to accelerate after passing the ball, indeed his progress forward if anything is impeded by the challenge of Crooks and yet he stays in line as Jones-Bishop receives the pass.'"
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