'10 | R12 | Fri | Dragons 30-0 Eels | WIN Jubilee

[Big Pete]

Good work there by Soward.

Was Boyd onside though?

 

[user_nat]

Eels really are starting to make the Dragons look good (not that they aren't good).

 

[Danish]

Looked up the rules and deliberate forward passes are indeed mentioned and are a penalty...


who'd have thunk it. I was sure they got rid of them a few years back.


Still, you wont see another one for another 10 years

 

[skeepe]

Yeah dude for sure, totally.

Watch it again if you don't believe me. Hayne touches the ball first, only just, but if he had been applying downward pressure it would have been a dropout.

 

[Danish]

*double*

 

[Rodent]

if it goes backwards out of the hands that would mean it at least traveled backwards for a short time before floating forward.

You, like many others don't understand the physics involved. The ball can continue to travel forward relative to the ground the moment it leaves the hands and not be a forward pass. That's because the ball is being carried downfield by the player. A forward pass is one that accelerates forward out of the hands.
Every time a player is running downfield and throws a legal flat pass it will travel forward relative to the ground immediately upon leaving the hands.
Imagine driving along in your car at 15km/h and drop a tennis ball out the window.....it will not land on the ground directly below where you dropped it but will travel forward even though you didn't throw it forward....get it?

 

[Dragon]

Eels are piss poore

 

[chrisD]

You, like many others don't understand the physics involved. The ball can continue to travel forward relative to the ground the moment it leaves the hands and not be a forward pass. That's because the ball is being carried downfield by the player. A forward pass is one that accelerates forward out of the hands.
Every time a player is running downfield and throws a legal flat pass it will travel forward relative to the ground immediately upon leaving the hands.
Imagine driving along in your car at 15km/h and drop a tennis ball out the window.....it will not land on the ground directly below where you dropped it but will travel forward even though you didn't throw it forward....get it?

Your theories are interesting and I would like to hear more. What are these physics you talk of and where can we see them on the replay?

 

[Fein]

nah that was a mile forward , deliberate too so should have been a penalty .

Sure was.

Fortunately it had no bearing on the result, same as the Soward "missed" goal. :crazy:

 

[Big Pete]

Good win in the end by the Dragons. Their back three were just brilliant and their halves controlled things nicely.

Eels were flat, they will only get better from here.

 

[Mong]

I wonder if, like the first time these two teams played, the game showed why Parra can win the comp but Saints can't?

 

[fish eel]

Good win in the end by the Dragons. Their back three were just brilliant and their halves controlled things nicely.

Eels were flat, they will only get better from here.

I think thats what I said when we were shthouse against saints in round 1. :lol:

We're the biggest pretenders in the comp......

 

[Big Pete]

Ha, I remember saying the same words. But with Hindmarsh, Grothe Jr. and Reddy to come back in they could at least cut the deficit by a bit.

 

[Anon]

In regards to forward passes if you pass the ball forward and one of your players comes from an onside position and takes the pass the referee calls a scrum. In this case Tahu threw the ball to Burt who was standing in front of Tahu and so was offside. Penalty was the correct decision.

 

[aussie7798]

just let the dragons add cooper hunt fein smith and gaz back in as well

 

[aussie7798]

In regards to forward passes if you pass the ball forward and one of your players comes from an onside position and takes the pass the referee calls a scrum. In this case Tahu threw the ball to Burt who was standing in front of Tahu and so was offside. Penalty was the correct decision.

the fact that burt gave himself up did not help either

 

[Dragon]

Parra are just foxing for when they play us next week...

oh wait

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I wonder if, like the first time these two teams played, the game showed why Parra can win the comp but Saints can't?

It's like round 26 last year, isn't it?

 

[Apey]

You, like many others don't understand the physics involved. The ball can continue to travel forward relative to the ground the moment it leaves the hands and not be a forward pass. That's because the ball is being carried downfield by the player. A forward pass is one that accelerates forward out of the hands.
Every time a player is running downfield and throws a legal flat pass it will travel forward relative to the ground immediately upon leaving the hands.
Imagine driving along in your car at 15km/h and drop a tennis ball out the window.....it will not land on the ground directly below where you dropped it but will travel forward even though you didn't throw it forward....get it?

yeah, except in this case he threw it forward out of his hands :lol:

one of the most blatant cases you'll see and you're trying to defend it? haha.

 

[renouf]

St.George getting away with their usual quota of forward passes I see