'10 | R9 | Sat | Sea Eagles 24-6 Dragons | Brookvale

[Dutchy]

It was directed forward, I hope you arent going to play the floating card. I find it hard for a bullet pass to "float".

 

[Eagle_Rocker]

I thought the pass was forward when I saw the replay. The touchie was right in line with it unlike the 3 camera angles that we saw and he made the call as he saw it. I realise touch judges are generally useless but surely in the position he was in he could tell if the pass was forward or not.

 

[_Johnsy]

moot point, but I agree rodent, an education can be a wonderful thing.

 

[Firey_Dragon]

The officiating was ordinary, but full credit to Manly they showed up to play. It's the best performance they've put in all year, it was one of our worst.

Both teams will be up there in the finals, hopefully we get to see both sides at full strength clash this year.

 

[Rodent]

It was directed forward, I hope you arent going to play the floating card. I find it hard for a bullet pass to "float".

The longer and flatter the pass the further forward it will travel if the passer is running towards the tryline. This is why Soward has had such passes called forward. It's just poor officiating. NRL on Fox had a segment on this to try to educate the footy public, obviously to no avail.
If you time how long the ball takes from release to being caught, this is the amount of time the ball has to "keep travelling forward" at the same speed Soward was running. For example if Soward was running at 6 metres per second and the ball was in the air for half a second you'd expect a flat pass to travel 3m forward (legally).

 

[effnic]

It's not an excuse but Saints lost their biggest go-forward machine and one of their rep wingers before kickoff - when Manly ended up 1-17 it was always going to be tough.

Manly were clearly the better side but had the Dragons been full strength the story would have almost certainly been different.

And if Brett Stewart was playing it would have been a different story, and if G rose was playing it would of been a diff story, and if one of our halves played the second half, and if it was a day game, and if dessie didnt use hairspay that morning blah blah f**king blah timmah, just shut your fat f**king face up.

 

[STG-Dragon]

And if Brett Stewart was playing it would have been a different story, and if G rose was playing it would of been a diff story, and if one of our halves played the second half, and if it was a day game, and if dessie didnt use hairspay that morning blah blah f**king blah timmah, just shut your fat f**king face up.

f**k a lot of Manly supporters in here are dickhead hypocrites! Last season we belted you with more out than you did and a lot of you cried and whinged saying we only won cause you had players out. And now your on the other side and have a go at people saying the same as you did! f**ken tossers!

 

[t-ba]

Generalisations flying from both sides here...

 

[effnic]

f**k a lot of Manly supporters in here are dickhead hypocrites! Last season we belted you with more out than you did and a lot of you cried and whinged saying we only won cause you had players out. And now your on the other side and have a go at people saying the same as you did! f**ken tossers!

Rugby league fans especially on these forums are the biggest hypocrites in the world, im sure even you yourself have done it a few times or more.

 

[effnic]

Try lookin without your manly gogles on

AHAHAHAHHA i just watched the replay paying extra attention to this try your whinging about, and im not sure how you take yourself seriously sometimes. Mate your a bitter old fool and obviously going blind in your old age. The force that farrar fell to the ground do you actually think the ball never touched the grass. Stop wasting everyones time with your pathetic agenda.

EDIT: OMG just watched a front on view of the try which shows him clearly grounding it. Innsaneink go f**k yourself.

 

[effnic]

 

[Timmah]

effie, have you tried making a joke you made up? Using everyone elses fat jokes doesn't make you funny or insulting, in fact I laugh at your posts like many others do.

 

[Dutchy]

Pretty convincing screenshot you got there effnic.

 

[manly40gimps0]

Pretty convincing screenshot you got there effnic.

No f**king way he grounded the ball.[-X

 

[effnic]

effie, have you tried making a joke you made up? Using everyone elses fat jokes doesn't make you funny or insulting, in fact I laugh at your posts like many others do.

I cant help it that you have heard every fat joke there is ever made, maybe go to a gym if you dont want to keep hearing them.

 

[effnic]

Innsaneink seems to have gone missing????????

 

[Johns Magic]

Haha that screenshot is gold

 

[Rodent]

Just a little bit of science to throw at the people who were deluded enough to think the officials got it right when disallowing the Lett try due to a Soward forward pass.
Soward catches the ball between the 14m and 15m mark, he passes the ball 0.64 seconds later a fraction short of the 10m line. He has moved downfield 4m in 0.64 seconds so the ball is moving forward at 4/0.64 or 6.25metres per second. The long ball he throws to Lett is in the air for 1.08 seconds so if he threw a legal dead flat pass, the ball would be caught 1.08x6.25=6.75metres further downfield, or roughly on the 4 metre line. Lett caught the ball around 8m out.
This was not even close to being a forward pass.
Despite the ball having an initial velocity of 6.25metres per second downfield, it only travelled forward a tick over 2 metres in the 1.08 seconds it was airborne.
In other words, if Soward was standing still and threw the identical pass with his hands pointing in exactly the same direction, the pass would have gone backwards by about 4.5 metres.
To one eyed Manly supporters who think the no try ruling was correct.......ignorance is bliss.

 

[Dutchy]

:lol: You're an idiot.