Which wasn't as funny as Atkins getting selected for England

Sorry but black is black and white is white; your explanation is like the picture, blurred and out of focus. The pass was forward, Wire won well, we lost. Why does it matter so much to Wire fans? I don’t know any Pie who thinks it would have made any difference.

I think the problem I have with this pass is that Hodgson was running at and angle, and not flat out. So we have a ball that 100% traveled forward over the ground and in my opinion also forward when taken relative to Hodgson's speed towards the try line v's the travel over the ground. I simply don't see that Hodgson would covered the same distance towards the Wigan line before the ball got to where it is shown in the photo.

The easiest way I found watching the pass on tv was that Hodgson passes the ball two meters one side of the line and Monaghan catches it two meters in front of the line.
Why the TJ's can't see this I don't know, perhaps he did, then told Ganson who ignored him.

The forward pass should be judged by the VR.

But it could still go backwards relative to the player which is the ruling not the ground.

I'm Sorry, but as has been explained pretty clearly earlier in this thread, this has nothing to do with whether or not a pass is forward.
Imagine Usain Bolt was a rugby player and when running flat out covers 10m every second. On the 20m line he passes the ball to Yohan Blake inside him and the ball travels backwards at 1m per second compared to Bolt (a perfectly legitimate pass). The ball is still travelling forwards over the ground at 9m per second, so if the ball is in the air for half a second before Blake catches it, he will receive the ball 4.5m in front of where Bolt passed the ball.

In all honesty, does anyone really care anymore? Forward or not (which it definately was ) we would of still lost the game, rather convincingly as well.

And there are a small number of clubs who get away with it on a regular basis.

It 'has' to be being coached!

It was a forward pass but not by much and certainly nothing like some are making out. There were more obvious forward passes in the game that went un-noticed

Okay, time to throw the cat amongst the pigeons.
I always tune in the scanner and listen to the referee. When SKY are broadcasting the game, the referee, both touch judges and video ref are all on an open mike type intercom.

1) when the pass went accross for the wire try, the linesman did shout ' forward, forward, forward' it was Mr Ganson who chose to ignore it and give the try. ( smells of an agenda to me )

2) I have lost count just how many of the RFL's 'rules' are broken on a weekly basis. The video ref, should only speak when questioned by the ref, and yet chimes in on a regular basis, particularly during a stop in play after an incident. Just watch the replay of when Luaki got cleaned out and the ref was so called speaking to his touch judge. Unless it was telepathy they were saying f***all, as they were both listening to the video ref ( I know, because i was too ! ). The referee then often says something like, 'so it was contact with the head then' and the linesman answers as if it was he who had made the observation. Just watch them and you will see it so very often. I won't go into the many comments about evening up penalty counts etc.

The point is, no matter whether you could ask the video ref about forward passes or not, if the Ref. / RFL/ cummings or whoever else can issue some pressure, wants a certain result, they can easily affect the outcome of any game by simply not asking the video ref ( like Thaler ) or asking the video ref to find a reason not to give it.

Add to this, a ref can structure the result of a game, not by giving penalties when they are not warrantied, ( as they can be proved to be wrong ), but by not giving penalties when they should be, holding down, high tackles, forward pass, offsides, etc etc etc. This is not just Wigan games I am referring to, many times watching many different teams one can see within minutes who is going to win just because of what the ref lets one side get away with whilst penalising the other.

I have come away from games wondering why I am putting my money into such a crooked sport, one day I hope to get an answer.

Are them scanners legal?

The referee can overule the linseman