On the contrary, I thought it was a blatant forward pass which should have been pulled up

The linesman should have spotted it and made a bad mistake (sorry, I don’t subscribe to the lack of bottle argument as that would require either one of us to know the guy and his character which we don’t)

I would even agree that the guy should well be dropped from the next round if Cummings et al decide that is appropriate

What I don’t agree with (and the reason for my first post on this thread) is your assessment than he should be struck off. People make mistakes and if you strike an official off the list for making a mistake, we would have no sport to watch

not read much of this post, but I completely agree this year the touch judges seem to be missing even more forward passes (thats saying something)

I wrote to boots n all, im going to write to the rfl too

The on field officials these days rely to heavily on VT. How many times have you heard can you just check if there was an obstruction/crossing etc. Im sorry but thats the Refs bloody job to see that. the VT has made refs sloppy and complacent that they can defer the decision and pass the buck. This i believe has resulted over the years to non tv games be affected by poor standards of officiating.

We either cut the Use of VT back to just grounding to award a score or we give VT the full powers to run the game and use the monkey in the middle as a mouth piece

Is this the virtual terrace, or the moan about Wigan forum?

I wonder what the Wigan fans thought about the pass for O'Loughlin's try today? Just ever so slightly?

Hmmm.

Anyone watching the Castleford v Leeds match?

Silverwood denies Castleford's Richard Owen a legitimate try saying it was a forward pass, then Leeds go up the other end of the field throw two forward passes and score as they were "not seen by the official" as Stevo would say.

To be honest, I couldn’t tell definitively on the TV which of those were forward and which were not – they were showed from so many different angles and from some they looked forward and others not

I guess that’s the reason why the video ref isn’t used for forward pass rulings

Stevo is the problem, not the passes.

The passes to Owen were forwards.

The Leeds passes prior to the JJB try were seen by the official, and deemed legal.

Agreed the camera angles made it rather hard to be definitive. Personally i thought the Ref got all the calls right and the footage didn't help to say otherwise

Nothing wrong with the Chase-Owen try - ffs, if refs are gonna clamp down can they at least try and get it right? That wasn't even close to being forward.

But yet again, Leeds get away with a load.

I agree nothing wrong with that cas effort...


....Except It was CLEARLY forward!

The biggest problem is the momentum pass. A static pass is no problem because the player passes the ball laterally with no forward momentum, this is where the officials can pick up whether it is a forward pass.
The difficult area is the long pass from the player travelling at high speed. For example we are in broken play with the wingers in a forward position on the opposition 10 metre line. The full back has broken through the defence at high speed 20 m.p.h. He releases a high lofted pass from the 20 metre line 0.5 metres backwards towards the touchline, in one second the ball would have 10 metres momentum.
So the winger on the 10 metre line could catch the ball from a backward pass.