Can someone tell me why this try is disallowed?

[miguel de cervantes]

Then explain why a video ref can pass judgement on a knock on and not a foward pass? Because it is a throw rather than a knock? I don't swallow that as that is not the basis for preventing adjudication of foward passes. There seems to be a bit of a loophole here.

If a player "taps" on a pass rather than throwing it, which then leads to a try (for example, the panthers in pink last year scored a great try as such), the video ref can call it back for a knock on if it is suspected to have gone foward?

 

[Evil Homer]

Really? I've worked in sports science research for 20 years and aren't aware of it. Do you have the reference? Would be either an interesting read or a very quick one. You'd be surprised what 'credible' research publishers were willing to publish.

I'm not sure whether it was published or not since I can't seem to find a reference, but it's mentioned in this article: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...eport-claims-refs-are-antifrench-2037791.html

 

[East Coast Tiger]

http://fofefa.blogspot.com.au/

London (Quins) cop it too.

 

[LeedsStorm]

http://fofefa.blogspot.com.au/

London (Quins) cop it too.

The link to the original paper doesn't work, so it's difficult to pass judgement. Deriving emprical data from what is essentially a subjective outcome is difficult, but what i can glean from the article is that the guy has simply run correlations between wins and nationality of refs. There's a high correlation between me attending Leeds' challenge cup finals and them losing, but it would be harsh to imply I'm causing them to lose. Wouldn't read anything into it

So quit whinging ;-)

 

[The Engineers Room]

You have to have control/possession of the ball first for it to be deemed a pass. It is a knock on.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

The link to the original paper doesn't work, so it's difficult to pass judgement. Deriving emprical data from what is essentially a subjective outcome is difficult, but what i can glean from the article is that the guy has simply run correlations between wins and nationality of refs. There's a high correlation between me attending Leeds' challenge cup finals and them losing, but it would be harsh to imply I'm causing them to lose. Wouldn't read anything into it

So quit whinging ;-)

You only have to watch enough Catalans games to see they don't get the rub. Some of the calls against them are diabolical. I turned it off the other day when they scored a try and they called a forward pass on a ball that wasn't even flat. It was a metre backwards. This wasn't a forward pass that was missed, as often happens, this was a regulation backwards pass called forward. It was ridiculous. If only that were an isolated incident.