Thought so, but some people do actually ask me that question a lot!

How on earth do people still not understand the principle of a ball being propelled backwards yet still travelling forward relative to the floor?

I'm not sure I understand all the details of the applicable rule.

But I know a forward pass when I see one.

In a nutshell, yes.

I'm not getting drawn into one of your loooooong drawn out 'debates', which involve a disection of every word, boring the rest of the board to tears. Nobody can be d with that, let's face it.

To be fair, I'd been sat in A&E for hours so I was bored.

But it's not a debate, you was wrong and dug a hole. The final part confirmed your lack of knowledge of the rule. When the rule states "The direction of a pass is relative to the player making it and not to the actual path relative to the ground" and you say "The players body shape, hands, direction of the pass relative to the pitch is all that counts", there's a slight contradiction! You are 100% wrong to say that part in bold.

How technical do you want to get?

Nothing continues in motion without momentum, which is the sum of an object's mass and velocity. Prior to release the player and the ball comprise a single system with momentum comprised of their joint mass and velocity; at the moment of release a portion of that momentum is transferred to the ball as the player and ball become two separate systems each with their own momentum. The sum of the momentum of the ball and the momentum of the player equals the momentum of the two together at the moment of release. That's an approximation that works for real-life events at least - the pure physics gets complicated.

It's momentum that keeps the ball moving forward relative to the ground.

I thought the RFL laws of the game had certain rules for certain clubs, silly me, i didnt realise we all played from the same book. I was under the impresion that if you wore a certain type of shirt, or came from a certain team, then you were allowed to throw the ball where ever you liked. I saw Hodgson throw a pass that was at least five yards forward last week, and that seemed to be ok, as the Warrington winger strolled in for a try. I dont get it, its the same in every game, the same teams get the rub of the green, regardless if its forward passes, lying on, hands in, offsides, it will never change and im not suprised Catalan have had enough after the decisions they got against saints, that was a *?**ing joke.

Conservation of momentum trumps it. Plus there are plenty of forces acting on the ball - gravity, air resistance, the impetus given to it by the player's throw, etc.

If the player's momentum changes [iafter[/i he's released the ball then clearly that has no effect on the ball as at that point they're two separate systems. Sort of. Depending on how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go.

Do you know I was wondering that - talk about a post where there are so many 'I will have the last word geeks'
by the way all A FORWARD PASS IS A FORWARD PASS.