It was forward IMO no doubt but not yards for me.

I wouldn't argue with you on this TBH, I am not saying the the Hudds pass was or was not forward, just that it was not as obvious on the video as the Tim Smith one, which I both watched and them rewound and watched just once more. I don't think Silverwood or his touch-judges can be accused of blatant errors that should have been spotted, and I would have accepted both or neither of these passes being pulled up as forward on the basis of the video I watched.

not seen replays yet and obv felt gutted at the time but at no point did i feel the compulsion to start a thread entitled "cheated" and make myself look daft. Some of the stuff in this thread is cringeworthy.

The referees obviously get things wrong and it did seem like Silverwood was giving us a hard time but you have to trust the officials to call the game as they see it. He is hardly going to make a forward pass decision lightly in the circumstances and to be fair he blew the whistle straight away.

My main concern was the incident involving Poore in the first half. The referee didnt seem to react until one of the Hudds players came running in (it looked like Grix or someone similar). Not having seen the replay i can't comment whether the challenge was high or not (it was a decent shot) but pretty disappointed that the Hudds player got away with running in and causing a ruck without a yellow card.

Also though Danny Kirmond pulled off one of the best tackles i have seen in a long time to prevent Ferres scoring. Shame we let McGillvray score on the next tackle.

Having watched it back and freezed framed it my initial thoughts were right, Tim Smiths pass was well forward i'm afraid. He passed the ball with no forward momentum from bang on the 10 metre line and Lee Smith took the ball about 7 metres out. Correct decision.

Sadly he managed to skip the fact that two of Mcgilvrays tries were from forward passes as well. Fair to say we got the dirty end of the stick in this one.

IA it was Luke Robinson and he has zero momentum when he passes

I also think that the Smith to Smith pass was forward, all I'm asking for is a little competancy from those in the middle

Interesting...

is it?

Not really, it's over and even if it did refs make mistakes - move on I say.

Yes interesting that McGillveray already has ball in hand and possible could have had for 5 metres yet on the Wakey photos the ball is still in the air in front of Fairbank. I'll post more accurate photos later

At least the world was still turning when I woke up this morning!

I still think that Silverwood was one-eyed, but at least it wasn't the usual capitulation against Shudds; as Anderson said, the best team lost, so if we can take anything from the game, it's that we can compete with what are perceived to be the best sides.

Bit more composure and the rub of the green every now and again, and we'd have won that comfortably; encouraging stuff.

I know there's times where things appear to be going against us, but everytime the 'cheat, cheat' chants get going i feel like burrying my head into the ground. Cringe

We need to move on guys its not the last game and it certainly won't be taken as a bad game for us. We were the best team unfortunately we lost. We can now go away to Catalans that we are able to compete with top teams in the super league. Up and onwards