Jul 29th, 2019

Jul 29th, 2019

Sydney Roosters star Luke Keary believes the NRL shouldn't follow through on implementing hawk-eye technology to adjudicate forward passes, telling reporters it will ruin the spectacle of the game.

Following a weekend dominated by contentious forward passes the NRL has vowed to adopt new technology to give fans more of a definitive response to rulings on the field, according to News Corp.

NRL chiefs have set the wheels in motion to introduce Hawk-Eye technology to track the movement pf the ball as it leaves the player's hands during a try-scoring moment, but Keary isn't a fan of the idea.

Luke Keary isn't a fan of hawk-eye. (AAP)

“I’m a no. The technology doesn’t suit us,” Keary said.“We are just a natural kind of game. If you slow down every try and say he has thrown it here and caught it in front.

“People don’t understand when you are running fast the ball is sometimes going to travel forward, but you have thrown it back out of the hands.

“It just brings in a whole other grey area. Then people start complaining that the game is slowing down because they are going up to the video referee to look at it.

“I’m happy to live with it. Over the course of your career they are going to go both ways. It is just the way the cards fall. It is our game. We’ve all grown up with it. Just get over it.”

The Warriors were robbed when a forward pass was called on Roger Tuivasa-Sheck for what would have been a match-winning try against the Eels.

The Storm's golden point loss to Manly hinged on a forward pass which led to Daly Cherry-Evans kicking the match-­winning field goal in the next set.

DRS review in cricket. (FOX Sports)

Braidon Burns' pass to winger Campbell Graham in Souths' win on Friday night was questionable at best and Sydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson was left scratching his head after playmaker Cooper Cronk was denied a try in the third minute of Sunday's 20-12 win over Canterbury after James Tedesco's last pass was ruled forward.

League officials are keen to embrace the same technology utilised by tennis for close line calls, the EPL for offside play and cricket's use of it to judge lbw decisions.

Nadal not impressed by the hawk-eye call at Wimbledon. (Getty)

“The only way we can be 100 per cent certain and consistent with forward passes is with this Hawk-Eye technology,” NRL head of football Graham Annesley said.

"The company’s engineers have told us they can develop a system where it can identify even in the closest margins if the ball has been thrown backwards or forwards from a player’s hands.

“It doesn’t exist yet but we are pursuing it with them.”

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Annesley said he'd been dealing with the UK-based Hawk-Eye product developers for a few months, with the NRL looking to add the technology for offside rulings in the bunker. But the forward pass would be a major advancement for the game.

“This would solve our problems and get rid of the controversy,” ­Annesley said,

“Sometimes you can watch a video 100 times and not be 100 per cent certain.

“Importantly, it would only be used in try-scoring situations so it doesn’t slow the game down.”

Annesley said the technology was likely to be introduced next year to check offside play from tries and as soon as 2021 for forward passes.