POST GAME Round 12 - Broncos vs Eels

[tommy]

Norman was running sideways so the pass was definitely forward.

 

[Spike]

Guys aren't you that little bit excited that we will have two Australian, one NZ, and a NSW back into our team over the next month. They will be fresh.

 

[jd87]

this is rather odd on channel 9.......

 

[I bleed Maroon]

Guys aren't you that little bit excited that we will have two Australian, one NZ, and a NSW back into our team over the next month. They will be fresh.

They will be fresh but also rusty

 

[Accept]

Yeah i don't think much of Fai to be honest. Should get some more time in the big lights but his physique isn't much better than Thaiday

Which is why he is well down the pecking order.

 

[Accept]

Hopefully it's just a strain for Jimmy (it's been bothering him all season apparently), he'll have 17 days to ice up and rest up before the next game.

Except that his next game is in 13 days.

 

[Foordy]

Or you could just say, oops maybe I was wrong... your scientist mate needs to hit the books.

Absolutes... Better to look a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt. ;)

let me see, should i trust a scientist who does this stuff for a living ... or a random on the internet ... tough call

 

[Broncos Maestro]

Except that his next game in 13 days.

Still that’s close to 2 weeks so a good recovery time. If that’s how fast he’s running while not 100%, imagine his real top speed when he is!

 

[Socnorb]

on that forward pass no try ... what were the commentators going on about... he passed it behind the 10m line and French caught it over the 10m line ... it was 1000% a forward pass ...

and BTW ... if the ball is thrown backwards, the laws of physics (which i'm confident Corey Norman is not able to defy) say it is not possible for the ball to float forward

Yes it is, because the ball is already travelling at the running speed of the player passing the ball.

 

[tommy]

Newton's first law.

 

[Foordy]

Put it this way: if you throw a footy backwards out of a car window at 60k’s, do you think it doesn’t float forwards from the point it was released.

You don’t need a scientist mate, just that little thing called ‘common sense’.

we are not talking a car travelling at 60k .. we are talking about a human running at less than 10k

 

[Morkel]

We did well to hold on. The refs kept the Eels in it, they were lying on us for an eternity, to the point that they knew they weren't going to get pinged for it so just lay over us some more. Couple that with 3 of our bench players having 2 games between them before tonight, and it's no surprise we looked ragged for the last 30 minutes.

This massive workload on the young forwards would normally burn them out by the end of the season, but with Glenn, Gillett, McGuire & Sims to come back, they'll be able to freshen up a bit with reduced minutes and be able to unleash hell come finals time.

Apparently Roberts' injury is one he's been carrying for a while, so there's the answer to why we've carried a centre on the bench every single game this year. It's come in extremely handy with unexpected injuries (Kahu, Bird, Opacic, that cursed left centre position), and it's amazing that it's taken until round 11 for Roberts to actually need replacing.

 

[Morkel]

Yes it is, because the ball is already travelling at the running speed of the player passing the ball.

The scientist is right. Because throwing the ball "backwards" at 60kph is only backwards relative to the person throwing it. Relative to Planet Earth, it's still going forwards.

 

[JamesC]

we are not talking a car travelling at 60k .. we are talking about a human running at less than 10k

The principle is exactly the same. If the backward velocity of the pass is less than 10km/hr then it will float forwards. And players are often running faster than that (you originally said it was not physically possible for a ball thrown backwards to move forwards regardless of who's thowing it or how fast they're going).

 

[I bleed Maroon]

What the **** are we discussing here folks

 

[broncsgoat]

we are not talking a car travelling at 60k .. we are talking about a human running at less than 10k

Mate what you said was wrong. There’s videos on YouTube explaining the science behind it

 

[ZTop]

Ahhh this shit is too confusing

 

[Art Vandelay]

we are not talking a car travelling at 60k .. we are talking about a human running at less than 10k

The same principle applies. It's the same reason why you can't jump just before a crashing elevator hits the ground and be fine. If a player is running forward with the ball at 10km/hr and then passed the ball 90 degrees sideways the ball leaves his hands with forward momentum of 10km/hr. The ball doesn't know or care that it's no longer being held by human hands.