I have been watching RL for over 50 years and can remember the call 'forward' at most matches. The problem I see is that in their desire to keep the game moving the 'flat' pass has been accepted when in the good old days the pass could only travel backwards to the receiving player. It must be extremely difficult for a referee to spot all the flat passes especially near the try line.
I think the RL have gone the way of football where the referee ignores all the shirt pulling arm wrestling in the penaltyarea in the aim of keeping the game flowing.
If the referees in both football and rugby league always penalised any offence each time the professional players/coaches would quickly revert to fair play.
initially there would be a slowing down of the sports but eventually the game would be much better and fairer to both teams.

It really annoys me when there is a blatant forward pass about 5 yard in from touch and the linesman doesn't see it

By the way that didn't happen on Friday,we were just e

Careful...

Problem is the ref's get wise to it and you probably end up getting less calls then because the referee thinks you are trying to influence a decision.

Personally I think the best chance of survival for the Bulls is if the stay away fans can be persuaded to return and get behind the club they've enjoyed the glory times with. How many extra points is a few thousand extra Bulls fans who get behind the team worth? Fate will be determined by the Bradford public I believe. Good luck I genuinely hope the Bulls stay up for the sake of all of you that have stuck by the club through thick and thin.

Perhaps we need to start shouting 'backwards' all the time.
Reverse psychology and all that...

With forward passes being let go, which seems what most of us think, as opposed to them being missed, is becoming a problem that will require some strict policing before it gets completely out of hand(pun intended). For example if the officials allow a FP just prior to a try being scored and allowed, when previously they pulled your team for a FP that obviously couldn't be missed by anyone. Then the calls of "bent" fixed and so on will likely continue throughout the game.
However if the Ref. was to have a zero tolerance to FPs some teams would lose more games than they would win, and the game would be slower but maybe fairer, and coaches would eventually get the message that the % age game doesn't work any longer. As a forward pass, and the dubious Lead runner (called dummy runner, in my book still offside) would never be a tactic employed by teams.