But the error is irrelevant. The player is offside. Are you saying a penalty should only be given if there is no knock-on? That would seem a bizarre rule. The player is offside, if he’s still moving forward toward the play he should be penalised, same as in any other situation.

I really haven’t seen that many that are forwards. They might have been caught in front of where they were passed but then that’s usually because in a 2 v 1 the passer often is travelling at speed and so isn’t a forward pass.

One problem with forward passes is how flat supporting players run nowadays. How often do wingers run almost parallel with a centre who's made a break? It makes any kind of pass very high risk, especially as the player with the ball is often at full pace themselves.

Also, the perception of the game suffers as a result, as the resulting pass travels massively forward in relation to the ground.
Most - though by no means all - longstanding fans recognise this.
However, it is massively difficult to explain to someone new to the game whose understanding is that the ball should go backwards. There must be huge levels of scepticism amongst casual TV viewers too. In fact I know there is.

Oddly enough it makes the skills look lower even though a flat pass at speed is one of the hardest to do.

Walker
Briscoe Newman Hurrell Handley
Tui Myler
Seumanufagai Dwyer Singleton
Sutciffe Watkins
Merrin

Smith Ferres Donaldson Oledzki

I think Agar will go something like this with Golding and Cuthbertson to miss out. I'd like to see Tui and Watkins dropped though.

From the 19 I think Agar will go with.

Walker
Briscoe
Newman
Hurrell
Handley
Sutcliffe
Myler
Seamanufagai
Dwyer
Singleton
Ferres
Watkins/Smith ( I'd have Smith start and drop Watkins and Cuthbertson can come in on the bench.
Merrin

Subs

Lolohea/Golding ( I'd rather have Golding but think Agar will go with Lolohea)
Oldezki
Smith
Donaldson

I'd like to see singleton, Watkins, ferries and Tui dropped.

I actually think sutty will play in the halves with ferries starting and Tui on the bench.

Why do we need Tui on the bench? Surely we can let the coach driver either stay with the bus or get a seat in the stands????

If you read my post I said I wouldn't have Tui in the squad at all but what I think will happen is that Tui is on the bench.

I don't mind being criticised but I like it to at least be for something I actually wrote.

Would it be ok to criticise you of not having a sense of humour then?

No. He didn’t write that he had a sense of humour.

He didn’t have to, it was implied.