Its no good getting pedantic? The irony.

Well if a player runs forward after [ipassing[/i the ball its legal even though the ball has gone forwards.

Not really as most Props wouldn't have got involved in the next play the ball usually as it was a backs try.

Several players were hit off the ball through-out the game, that went unpunished, from both teams.

On your first point, like I said earlier, it does happen occasionally, but if they don't get involved (ie make a tackle) then there is no penalty given. A good ref will communicate and tell them they are offside and they won't make a tackle.

re Webb, it's a good point, but one that would happen unfortunately, it is a quirk, but one which rarely happens, hence the discussion here, as it was a rare one.

Correct. And last night at the Quins match. Didn't cost us the match or anything but was generally inept.

At least nobody (apart from 1 buffoon) is disagreeing with Aliberts ignorance when it came to Newton taking JJB out off the ball.

I thought Ganson reffed the derby fine.
He let things flow and allowed rugby as it should be imo.

If the ball leaves your hands in a forward motion, then its a forward pass, that's pretty much end of story.

He didn't pass it anyway.

I don't agree.

When a ref has to make a call on a pass, he looks at how the player is holding the ball, which direction his hands are facing etc. This 'pass' from JJB had none of these characteristics to look at, which suggests to me that it isn't technically a pass, and it is fair to assume that the ball has come off his hand, and if the decision is that the ball has gone forward, then it is a knock on.
It had no characteristics of a traditional RL pass.

You may think the Webb decision is pedantic, but the bloke was 8-10m offside.

So now it was a forward pass? Make your mind up.