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<blockquote data-quote="megaresp" data-source="post: 768944" data-attributes="member: 73337">I was hoping you would join this thread. I enjoy your contributions.I read your detailed post on what was/was not a forward pass, and found it most interesting. Nether-the-less, there are examples of forward passes that slipped by. Of course, there always are, and such is the nature of sport.I used &quot;alleged&quot; because I agree that it&#039;s largely a myth, and that Ritchie isn&#039;t doing anything particularly unusual/dirty/nasty that isn&#039;t also being done by others. I included it because a player that gets there before the ref has caught up may well get away with (cough) inventive tactics.My hypothesis is that, perhaps, refs increasingly find themselves unable to keep pace with modern forwards in top teams such as NZ and Australia. As a result, such a ref may miss more, and/or these forwards have more opportunities to exploit an out-of-breath ref. And that, perhaps, forwards from the days of yore didn&#039;t have sufficient speed to outpace the ref.Could be a load of ********, but I thought it worth discussing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="megaresp, post: 768944, member: 73337"] I was hoping you would join this thread. I enjoy your contributions. I read your detailed post on what was/was not a forward pass, and found it most interesting. Nether-the-less, there are examples of forward passes that slipped by. Of course, there always are, and such is the nature of sport. I used "alleged" because I agree that it's largely a myth, and that Ritchie isn't doing anything particularly unusual/dirty/nasty that isn't also being done by others. I included it because a player that gets there before the ref has caught up may well get away with (cough) inventive tactics. My hypothesis is that, perhaps, refs increasingly find themselves unable to keep pace with modern forwards in top teams such as NZ and Australia. As a result, such a ref may miss more, and/or these forwards have more opportunities to exploit an out-of-breath ref. And that, perhaps, forwards from the days of yore didn't have sufficient speed to outpace the ref. Could be a load of ********, but I thought it worth discussing. [/QUOTE]

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