Watching NRL 360, and the goons that they hire as so called experts are all giggling to themselves about how NSW got a lucky break with the Maloney pass to Ado-Carr for a try in last night's Origin match.
That pass was not in the vicinity of being forward. It shouldn't even merit discussion.
But the fact that these self styled experts all think it was and then supposedly have valid observations about the game shows they know next to nothing and think they know almost everything.
Just to be clear, this is not a NSW v Qld thing. No doubt plenty will see it as that, and that is the tribal nature of the sport.
Some may say I am biased as a NSWelshman. I didn't watch the game, and didn't care about the result. I was vaguely hoping Qld would win but I didn't really care.
This is also not a rehashing of the million plus page forward pass thread. If you think passes that at all go forward compared to the ground should be called forward you need to join a cult or something. You, flat earthers, creationists, anti vaxers, and climate deniers can all have regular meetings and discuss the latest trends in tin foil hats.
You might meet Hooper there, and any other idiot journalist who said the pass "floated" forward (like the fox sports writer who last night pointed out Maloney released it one side of the line and it was caught just on the other side). If your career is to report on a game at least learn the main rules.
But the dead give away that it was not forward is where Maloney ended up compared to Addo-Carr when it was caught. He was a long way in front of Addo-Carr, which is almost always the best sign of the direction the ball travelled compared to him (i.e. a long way backwards).
A ball will slow a bit from air resistance and Maloney may have accelerated a bit or straightened up a little, which can also put him in front of the receiver.
It didn't look like he did much speeding up (he probably slowed a bit if anything, as most players do after passing) or straightening though, and the ball ended up a long way behind him.
So why are ex-players and career journalists who supposedly analyse the game, unable to at all comprehend a basic part of the game?
That pass was not in the vicinity of being forward. It shouldn't even merit discussion.
But the fact that these self styled experts all think it was and then supposedly have valid observations about the game shows they know next to nothing and think they know almost everything.
Just to be clear, this is not a NSW v Qld thing. No doubt plenty will see it as that, and that is the tribal nature of the sport.
Some may say I am biased as a NSWelshman. I didn't watch the game, and didn't care about the result. I was vaguely hoping Qld would win but I didn't really care.
This is also not a rehashing of the million plus page forward pass thread. If you think passes that at all go forward compared to the ground should be called forward you need to join a cult or something. You, flat earthers, creationists, anti vaxers, and climate deniers can all have regular meetings and discuss the latest trends in tin foil hats.
You might meet Hooper there, and any other idiot journalist who said the pass "floated" forward (like the fox sports writer who last night pointed out Maloney released it one side of the line and it was caught just on the other side). If your career is to report on a game at least learn the main rules.
But the dead give away that it was not forward is where Maloney ended up compared to Addo-Carr when it was caught. He was a long way in front of Addo-Carr, which is almost always the best sign of the direction the ball travelled compared to him (i.e. a long way backwards).
A ball will slow a bit from air resistance and Maloney may have accelerated a bit or straightened up a little, which can also put him in front of the receiver.
It didn't look like he did much speeding up (he probably slowed a bit if anything, as most players do after passing) or straightening though, and the ball ended up a long way behind him.
So why are ex-players and career journalists who supposedly analyse the game, unable to at all comprehend a basic part of the game?
