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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 3057685, member: 8215"] This. Except I'm skeptical as to whether they couldn't implement it, or whether they decided against it because of how badly it would expose the refs' officiating. This one will be far more difficult, because I don't really know if there is a way to rule how they want to rule it. The actual rule is that it can't be passed forward. To officiate that would be easy. But because they want to allow marginal passes where it "floats" forward, they've adopted this "backwards out of the hands" policy. What that means is, it allows for the forward-momentum of a player running. Unfortunately, in real life, people are going to see exactly how forward passes will actually be thrown while still qualifying for this. If a player is at full-speed, and they pass it long, a pass that takes 2 seconds to reach it's target will be able to travel 20 metres forward point-to-point as that's how far the forward-momentum of the player will account for. Those in charge will surely realise at that point that the it's too much for the public to stomach, even if it's technically what they are supposedly now trying to rule on. I see them going multiple ways: * They adopt the "backwards from the hands" rule and it descends in to a farce as fans won't stomach it. * They realise how forward passes actually go with the above, so adopt a more black & white "no forward passes" rule. * They do something arbitrary and allow a certain (undisclosed) margin of error to allow the slightly-forward passes. * Most likely: They give up and it quietly disappears in to the ether like the 10 metre rule overlay. [/QUOTE]

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