The penalty should always go against the player reacting in my opinion. By giving it for the initial offence the referree is conding the retaliation and allowing poor discipline to be rewarded.

Back to the original subject... Leeds failed to do the basics well. Complete your sets of six and in most cases you'll be in front on the scoreboard. Saints completed the most and won.

Burrows was targeted in defence and was over run on a couple of occasions.
Budures looked rusty, unsurprising, but did show promise.
The forwards were beaten by a stronger saints pack.
Gibson needs more game time to enable a complete assesment of him. He can't be written off after a couple of poor performances. The only way he will progress is to keep lpaying at a high standard. Not every youngster is going to be an instant world beater.
The best team won this time.

Yeah...................................................................................the banned list.

I can live with that Emma, the point i am trying to make is this, through poor recruitment, lack of any kind of long term plan or risk mitigation Leeds have gone backwards again.

They also did this under Smith but I always felt under Smith that Leeds could come up with a way of beating sides, especially Saints.

However with Bluey and his one of the boys management style I see nothing to convince me that he has any plan, and before anyone comes back and says he won us the GF, well that was a masterclass in copying the blueprint laid down by Smith in how to beat Saints.

Unfortunately Saints and Mick Potter have now worked out the answers and we are now way behind them.

Agree. I also agree that Burrows took the wrong option going right instead of left when he made the break - but just remind me of how many other breaks (from either team) were as clever as Burrows break ?

Also Burrows tackling is better than most other half backs in Superleague - its just easier to mention his size - WHAT about the Wellens try - two players completely failed to stop him !! Not Burrows fault.

Only Paul Deacon is a better defensive 7 in Superleague