Yet despite all our injuries/loss of form we've beaten both including the "double" over Wire!

I wouldn't base the buisness end of the season on 1 friday night game in mid-july very naive at best.

What concerns me more regarding the Hodgson try was the fact as Hodgson apparently scored the try the touch judge was already waving his flag and indicating a tap 20 restart yet the ref ignored this

Doesn't sound too bad then, maybe a dead leg(let's hope it's not as bad as sinis)

Yep and he didn't even claim it until Thaler and the in goal judge(who was further away) gave it.

They were laughing like fook and they knew it wasn't a try imo.

well "leeds will win nothing this year"I seem to recall we have heard ,read that statement quite a few times during the last 3 years

Quote rhinoms="rhinoms"Match reaction. www.therhinos.co.uk/news/14477.php www.therhinos.co.uk/news/14476.php www.therhinos.co.uk/news/14478.php'" Kylie's comment about "getting the semi out of the way" wasn't encourageing. Does this mean we can expect poor performances all the way up to the semi, then all the way up to the final (if we get there)? This team has had real difficulties focusing on more than one competition at a time. One of the few weaknesses they have shown over the last few years. If it's not the WCC at the start of the year it's the CC until they get knocked out.

Quote rhinoms="rhinoms"Match reaction. www.therhinos.co.uk/news/14477.php www.therhinos.co.uk/news/14476.php www.therhinos.co.uk/news/14478.php'" Kylie's comment about "getting the semi out of the way" wasn't encourageing. Does this mean we can expect poor performances all the way up to the semi, then all the way up to the final (if we get there)? This team has had real difficulties focusing on more than one competition at a time. One of the few weaknesses they have shown over the last few years. If it's not the WCC at the start of the year it's the CC until they get knocked out.

Fair enough is that, it didnt seem biased to me

the ref missed a lot for both teams tonight and as i was behind the sticks i couldnt see side on and it looked like Leeds got away with a couple of forwards ? please be honest answering that one !!

oh and BTW Hodgson didnt touch the ball from where we were stood - we only wanted a drop out

the game had it's usual flat balls and a few forward. Same as you get week in week out. The pass/off load to Lunt for his try was a shocker. Leeds should have got a tackle in on him before he scored though.

From my position in the South Stand Smith got as close as he could to the ball to guide it out which caused him to touch it with his leg. The next contact the ball had with anything was the touch in goal line. It should IMO have been a drop out which meant all the officials got it wrong (I'll happily be corrected when I see a replay but if I'm right it's shocking that I saw that from 50 m away and the officials all got it wrong).



On the knock on for the next try it's a tough one. Technically I think the ball went backwards from his hand although he will have certainly have propelled the ball in a direction further forward than it was going to be. It wasn't one that obviously went through his hands. I rather see these given as knock ons but to be fair to Thaler he was consistent - Senior did the same thing in a similar position in the 1st half.



Some of the forward passes in the 2nd half down our left hand side were embarrassing - one to hall on about the half way line must have gone at a 30 degree angle. I though I counted 3 including one in the build up to the final try.



One last point - why when Ali passed the ball after Thaler had called held was it a scrum and not a penalty? Is it some kind of accidental law as he clearly hadn't heard? The same as accidental offside would be a scrum?

Was it my eye sight failing me again or did McShane kick a 40 20 and the scrum was given to Huddersfield? Looked pretty close to me.



Again, we've played poorly and found a way to come away with the 2 points.

he was well putside the 40 when he kicked it.

can't comment on the hodgeson try as it was at the far end, but smith was appalling all night. why didn't he kick it into the stand? lets hope a good pre season will bring back his pre union form.

clarkson gets better and better, he is going to be some player.

i thought it was a play off type game,good defence and a tough game. overall i thought we edged it and has been alluded to the likes of kylie,burgess and ali will be better for the run out



and i don't think we were poor, that takes a lot of credit away from the giants.individuals were poor but as a whole it was a decent display