Forget the forward passes & just wish we were lucky enough to support a team with such quality, and on that performance, it’s not ending anytime soon .

You are not, it was a fine pass backwards and the fact that the ball does indeed end up in McGuire's hands ahead of where it left Watkins hands, in relation the field of play, does not make it a forward pass. Unfortunately, all it proves is that some fans know neither the laws of the game... or the laws of physics!

See exhibit A above... I rest my case!

Leeds fan supporting the forward pass rule.. surprise suprise

BS of the highest order. A forward pass is a forward pass and that was a goddamn forward pass.

So to qualify this, player A passes the ball clearly backwards by 2 foot towards player B, the ball takes a wicked bounce then bobbles forward 4 foot clearly in front of player B, this then isn't a forward pass? Ball back a little but then forward a lot?

Yep that would be play on, he passed it backwards

Ok, didn't realise that.

After that pass that Owen I think it was took against Leeds at home and scored in the dying minutes' we can't complain really, but like every other club we all prosper and suffer from them, it's such as St Helens who you have to feel sorry for, week in week out they have to suffer the frustration of all them forward passes' not given against the teams' playing them

Sorry IA, I have to disagree. Yes momentum comes into it but I would dispute the initial direction of the pass. It looked like it came out of his hands in a forward direction to me.

No, it really was not. You are another one who firstly needs to read the actual laws of the game, not just base your judgement of what you think the laws says! Secondly, once you have read the laws, you need to have a basic grasp of the law of physics to understand why it is entirely possible to throw the ball backwards, as Watkins did, and it still be caught (relative to the field of play) in front of the where the ball left Watkins hands and it NOT be a forward pass. That is why the laws of the game are clear and state forward passes are NOT judged relative to the field of play... until you grasp this basic concept then you will never understand why you are wrong and, in this case, the officials were correct!

No forward pass there Jinjer, as the passer of the ball,initially propelled it backwards.

Sorry Fordy, watch Watkins hands (as he passes the ball clearly backwards) and also McGuires position relative to Watkins as the pass leaves his hands, McGuire is a good meter behind him at that moment Secondly, watch were Watkins is when McGuire catches the ball, he is still in front of McGuire even though he is slowing down. It is those three things ref's are trained to look at to judge forward passes, not easy and they sometimes get it wrong both ways, but this was not a forward pass. Sorry!

You live and learn, whatever next, no feeding at scrums?

You live and learn, whatever next, no feeding at scrums?