oldmancraigy
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First up: we were slaughtered last night. St Geo/ Illawarra were fantastic and look right on track to win their first ever premiership. This thread is not sour grapes - quite frankly we were lucky to only get smashed by 30 - could've been much worse.
This thread is about the brouhaha that was made after our game winning forward pass against Manly --> the fallout seems to be that the Eels get called for plenty of forward passes, even ones that everyone else gets away with.
I just want to draw attention to 2 tries last night from the South Coast boys - their first and second tries.
Here are pictures for the first try:
I apologise for the terrible picture quality (blame Bigpond).
Morris passes:
Hornby receives:
If you watched the footage, Hayne turns straight to the touchie and says "forward pass" - clearly it is thrown right on the 20m line, and caught about on the 18m line.
The footage of the second one is even worse - but you'll recall in commentary the fuss that was being made over it being forward (passed 34m out and caught 31m out).
Then later in the game Tahu passes from the 30m line to Burt, who catches it at the 30.5m mark - PENALTY for intentional forward pass.
Let me just qualify my position here: The Hornby try was just a poor piece of skill from Morris to deliver the inside ball (2m forward), the try had been conceeded by a terrible bit of defence from Parra. Had the pass gone backwards, then Hornby scores anyway. [this is exactly the same as the Reddy try vs Manly - try had been laid on]. I am NOT whinging about the result vs the Dragons (or even the scoreline) - just using it as an example of something that I've been noticing quite a bit.
It seems like Parra has been called up for more forward passes since that Manly game then I've seen called on any one particular team in an entire season.
It's like we're the only team in the comp not allowed to pass it forward from dummy half to a rampaging forward. Are we being targetted in the forward pass department since that game?
This thread is about the brouhaha that was made after our game winning forward pass against Manly --> the fallout seems to be that the Eels get called for plenty of forward passes, even ones that everyone else gets away with.
I just want to draw attention to 2 tries last night from the South Coast boys - their first and second tries.
Here are pictures for the first try:
I apologise for the terrible picture quality (blame Bigpond).
Morris passes:
Hornby receives:
If you watched the footage, Hayne turns straight to the touchie and says "forward pass" - clearly it is thrown right on the 20m line, and caught about on the 18m line.
The footage of the second one is even worse - but you'll recall in commentary the fuss that was being made over it being forward (passed 34m out and caught 31m out).
Then later in the game Tahu passes from the 30m line to Burt, who catches it at the 30.5m mark - PENALTY for intentional forward pass.
Let me just qualify my position here: The Hornby try was just a poor piece of skill from Morris to deliver the inside ball (2m forward), the try had been conceeded by a terrible bit of defence from Parra. Had the pass gone backwards, then Hornby scores anyway. [this is exactly the same as the Reddy try vs Manly - try had been laid on]. I am NOT whinging about the result vs the Dragons (or even the scoreline) - just using it as an example of something that I've been noticing quite a bit.
It seems like Parra has been called up for more forward passes since that Manly game then I've seen called on any one particular team in an entire season.
It's like we're the only team in the comp not allowed to pass it forward from dummy half to a rampaging forward. Are we being targetted in the forward pass department since that game?
