Here’s an absolutely STUNNING piece explaining the forward pass.
It’s on Rugby365 and I think that you should go there to read it. Click here. Simply put, it’s just too good to repost here, thus robbing them of a hit. You see, I do have a conscience.
Basically, the upshot is this… look at where the recipient of the pass is realtive to the passer at the exact moment the ball leaves the passers hands. Anything else is bound be inaccurate, unless you’re completely stationary relative to both the passer and the receiver. This is, of course, impossible unless both are moving at exactly the same speed. I guess it means only props are exmept from throwing forward passes…
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actually, it’s not sufficient to check where the intended recipient of the pass is at the moment the pass is made… players can still throw the ball forward and count on the recipient making up the intervening ground in the meantime. You actually need to look at the direction in which the ball is thrown by the player…
In fact, the laws of physics mean that you can’t accurately determine if a pass is forward unless everybody is stationary. Bloody einstein and his theory of relativity.
@robdylan (Comment 1) : Rob, hell we like to complicate things… this is more like a lecture on physics and dynamics KISS principle works “look at the direction in which the ball is thrown by the player to his intended recipient” Worked for 30 years for me.
@Ragged (Comment 2) : intellectual [email protected]? Hell yeah… problem is, when you start asking people OTHER than the ref to adjudicate forward passes, it becomes relevant…
E = Party
Not that i would know 😐
@robdylan (Comment 1) :
I agree that you can still pass the ball forward and the receiver can make up the ground from behind you and catch the ball, so that is the only flaw in looking at the position of the receiver relative to the passer to rule on forward passes.
I think it’s better to look at the direction of the ball as it leaves the hands of the passer like Ragged said.
@walter van transvaal.co.za (Comment 6) : yeah, but if he is stopped suddenly, or knocked back, the ball will leave his hands moving forward even if he passes it backwards. Nicht wahr?
Now I am so tired after that lecture… 🙄 But try and explain that to the Bulls…
Simple science. 😉
Case Rijsdijk taught science and he writes the dam astronomy column in the Weekend Argus, WTF does he know….he strikes me as being more in tune with the psychedelic properties of mushrooms than passing a rugby ball
@Sauce (Comment 10) : he’s Dutch, yes? Crazsy guysh
Nah he’s a saffa, he used to teach at Bishops if i am not mistaken.
💡 It has got to do with the oval shape of a rugby ball…
@Sauce (Comment 10) :
hehehe
Unlike you Sauce
Who is quite “knowlegable” in both!
@Oranje Orakel (Comment 14) : WTF is bloody Naka playing at, sending JLP to Welkom?
@robdylan (Comment 15) :
Nothing really- Cheetahs- is giving all the okes that is not in the match 22 – some game time
The GriFFons are benefiTTing, so do the players!
We are doing our “development job” quite well, sure some people in DeBBen has noticed that!
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@Oranje Orakel (Comment 17) : it messes with the Fantasy League! Please tell him to stop doing it 😉
@PJLD (Comment 4) : @Sauce (Comment 10) : Mmmmnnnnn????? 😆
@PJLD (Comment 4) : @Sauce (Comment 10) : Mmmmnnnnn????? 😆