By the way, this is not a post match moan when we've had a very good hard earned victory - merely an observation based on a few occasions when this scenario has come up. The fact that in each of the cases I've referred to, the decision didn't end up costing us suggests I'm wrong, I'm just thinking from the point of view of REALLY not wanting to see any more short kick offs with a few minutes to go in big games and having to sweat potentially unnecessarily for a few minutes

It was late in the game, it eats up the clock we get two points and we get the ball back. The right decision IMO. We tend to take the two when we think its going to be a tight game. Taking the two helped us earn the two points in France on monday

I personally wanted us to run the final penalty and at worst keep them in their 20m.
What i did notice was Sinfield checking the clock before opting for the 2 and he made the call that at the very worst the clock would finish Wire off even in the event of their last second "wide to west" effort.
For me if there was 4/5minutes left then yeh but i'm sure there was 8minutes left when he kicked and again id have ran it because they seemed to fire up for one last effort albeit in vane.
It worked for us so fair do's but another set on their line would have imo prevented that last try and possibly got us another one.

We had been out on our feet before that set, looking very fatigued. It was right to take the two at that stage, IMO.

Was that the only penalty we got in the 2nd half? Amazing really considering how Child seemed to be cracking down on messing about at the ruck, Wire were probably worse in this area in the 2nd half than they were in the first.

In hindsight, the one thing I didn't refer to in my original post which I should have done was the fatigue level... Given this, taking the two does indeed give the team a potentially valuable breather, so you definitely have a point on that score... However, if you are a fatigued player, what would you rather be doing - attacking 10 yards from the opposition's line (bearing in mind the like of Hall, Watkins, Moon and Hardaker who all still looked fairly fresh could have taken a few drives in - as Hall indeed did end up doing quite a few times in the remaining play) or defending 35 yards out against a team throwing it about all over the place desperate for a score?

At the end of the day, the fact that by taking the two Leeds showed they backed themselves to handle the short kick off, hence showing positivity as opposed to my negativity, and they turned out to be right - but it could so very easily have gone against us. It just makes it all the tougher to watch when supporting a team who put us through the wringer enough as it is

From a Wire point of view I was relieved with the decision to go for 2.

A tap, no mistakes, and at worst give us the ball back a minute later 95m or so from your line, or at best score a try to finish us off. Taking the 2 and moving from 8 to 10 points ahead made little difference, maybe used up less time and gave us the opportunity to get the ball back in the Leeds half.

Ultimately it made no difference in the end, but for a minute or so it gave us hope of snatching a totally undeserved win.

His decision making in terms of penalties and one pointers has never really cost us and as was shown in France on Monday his ability to use his goal kicking to ensure victories in games is second to none.

I thought the taking the 2 in the last few minutes was the right call as we looked knackered.
I would disagree with the decision early in the first half to take the 2. I know it took us 2 scores ahead but I thought we were well ontop at that point and another set on their would have led to a try for us.

But then I'm not Leeds captain for several very good reasons

For me it all depends on the score not the clock. If we are 4 in front then go for 2 as 6 is a converted try for them to draw level. If the 2 points does not give us another converted try advantage then try and score a try or pin them down their end.

Good call by the o p in my opinion the Wire poster said it all it gave them a chance that they should not have been given , fatigue is always going to kick in more without the ball than with it . Saying that and defending Sinny he makes more good calls than bad