Standing dead level with Mcshane for 40/20 kick and he was just outside our 40 one call Thaler did get right.

don't seem that biased to me,in fact it seems pretty spot on,griff's yellow card did seem harsh and wouldn't have been yellow if it was the other way round, leeds' first try was very lucky as clarkson was supposed to be the dummy,but took the chance well,referee missed a few things which is about right,and leeds got lucky in the end when graeme "safehands" horne dropped the ball right where leeds wanted it.

all in all i thought we were slightly the better team,especially in the 2nd half but our mistakes and 2 failed conversions lost us the game.

The defense continues to be below the level it should be. The defense for Patrick try was a disgrace. Our line speed continues to lack intensity at times and we give the opposition playmakers far too much room.



Anyone else think that BJB would be a better option at FB to Smith at the moment? Smith looks slow, and unfit, and just plain lazy at times. I didn't have that much of a problem with the actual miss on Lunt in the first half, but it was how slow Smith was to get accross to him in the first place. Hopefully by next season he will have regained his previous form for Leeds and do well, but at the moment he's a liability.



One final negative point. Why do we wait until we're on the brink of defeat before we attacking with any urgency. The McGuire try for example was one of the few times we actually moved the ball along the line with pace and with runners making themselves available. We need to do that more consistantly.



On a posative note. Buderus was outstanding, and JJB was too in the second half and ran him very close for MotM. McShane was much improved when he came on, especially in defence.

we looked a hell of a better side with buderus on. he seemed to e off a long time,maybe he was still not 100% fit

What utter nonsense. It's an automatic sin-binning these days.

Its funny because wasn't it Nathan Brown who was complaining about a similar incident earlier in the season.

maybe you should point that out to the author of the match report then?

I'm sure he wasn't & had Burrow been fit or McShane performed better then I don't think he would have played. Despite playing on one leg & making few if any runs from dummy half, his speed & accuracy of pass from the ruck & his organisational skills in defence showed his value to the team.

For G1's benefit I hope that McShane was watching & learning from that.

Spot on ! (He is now becoming very much the first name written onto the team sheet). Whoops ! I forgot ...IMO.

another below par performance last night but the one thing that stood out for me was Kirke backing of a tackle on Crabtree has he brought it in at the carnegie end and his shirt grabbing patsy at griffin. Not blaming one player but it did make me cringe, always supported kirke but how he got in before the inform Ambler is anyones guess. The last 8 minutes play tbf was worth the entry money if we could only put some of that in earlier.

See elsewhere too...but don't mind repeating I think Ambler has to be at least on the bench...prob as you state in place of Kirke. He really looks the part.

Was it Kirke who bomed a certain try in the second half just next to the SS? Was furious at that.