Quote ="Ferocious Aardvark"Knock it forward on purpose? Well yes, I reckon he did. Unless he had size 40 velcro'd hands he couldn't have caught it. One thing he certainly didn't try to do is 'palm it back', that much is plain from the fact that that's not the action his hand and arm did. It is bleedin' obvious if someone has tried to palm a ball backwards. Isn't it?
But I don't [iknow[/i if he definitely did it on purpose, it is just how it plainly looked to me, and I should have thought anyone.
You need to turn your sarcasm dial down, it's at 11.
I don't think you're far off, though, I reckon he intended to bat it on a short way (as he couldn't obviously catch it first time) and then catch it and drop for a try. But ended up batting it too far, so then decided to palm it back.
You maintain that the first contact was just in fact no more than a fsck-up, then?
I do wish it were possible to have threads where there is a bona fide discussion of rules and decisions without it being called "whingeing". It seems to be discussing decisions about key moments for its own sake on on their won merits, to me. Nobody is saying we lost because of tehse decisions for example. Why can't we discuss laws rules and rulings without being ludicrously and inexplicably accused of "whingeing"?'"
^Everything, and I mean absolutely everything, he said.
