Bulldogs Manly game - "forward pass"

[player 1]

Just watched another practical demonstration of match officials' lack of understanding of physics and projectile motion.

After a break by Barba, on the next play a long pass was fired out towards the wing. The passer was running forward, the ball left his hands backwards relative to him, but because of his momentum, the ball ended up on the ground 2 metres in front of where he passed it (some 15 or 20 metres infield).

Called a forward pass and bulldogs robbed of a try.

There is no hope for this game (NRL). Results too easily manipulated by a mixture of ignorance, incompetence and bias.

[Rooster_6]

Bulldogs robbed themselves of a try there.

[Johnny Tobin]

I am holding out some hope for that micro chip system they may introduce next year.

[Guest]

I am holding out some hope for that micro chip system they may introduce next year.

That won't fix the scenario above

[Rooster_6]

Don't worry about micro chips, Bulldogs have absolutely bombed this game.

[Guest]

Thanks for the spoiler Player 1

[Geohood]

Looking at that pass now, it would be called forward 10 times out of 10... are you serious?

[ROC181]

I watched Wales v Argentina in a rugby friendly early in the morning and the ref manage to catch 3 forward passes without an extra ref. Perhaps he had assistance from the sidelines but they were all correct. The video ref was only used once and even though the decision was hard to judge, it only took a fraction to what an NRL video ref takes. Goes to show that the NRL has some dubious people running the game or more like incompetent.

[player 1]

Thanks for the spoiler Player 1

Dude it was a no try call in the first 10 minutes of the match, but apologies all round if it ruined your enjoyment of the match...

[Guest]

And??

[Kingbilly]

What do you think about the 2 forward passes in the Canberra game, I though very correctly called forward yet the commentators kept saying no way.
It was bizzarre

[Guest]

And?? And??

[stephenj]

the only reason we have 2 refs in the nrl is to ensure the game result is controllede, news insisted on the video ref for the same thing! it doesnt seem to impact the game having 1 ref in international games?if the linesmen are doing their jhob, only need 1 anyway!