You mean the Hardaker knock on from the high kick which went back?? Then if you watch the play for 2 more seconds he knocks on when the ball is on the floor......

you are talking rubbish if you watched on tv!

If you are talking about hardaker he did knock on

I don't think McDermott was complaining about any individual incidents regarding the ref, just the general way he officiated the match. It was his usual style were players look like they're treading on eggshells around him especially regarding the tackle/PTB speed.

The only incident I really have an issue with is the Ablett/McShane tussle. Yes daft from Ablett but then again it's just handbags, just tell them to put their handbags away and play on, poor decision IMO to give a penalty to Cas otherwise you could have several a game for pushing at the PTB.

If you mean me I was at the game, didnt think it was a knock on at first but watched the big screen and he knocked on trying to collect the ball second time around.

Leeds look a shambles, and that starts at the top. I've heard about a lack of support for son of BMDs ideas the year but frankly we look poorly coached. We either have a very poor game plan, or we are incapable of playing to it, either way the buck stops with the coach. In fact the biggest issues are with a passive and pedestrian front row who seem incapable of either tough yards or quick ptbs, meaning poor quality halves have no time to organise play even if they could. Leeds are currently where their form dictates they belong, and without significant change in brains and application from both players and coaches, this isn't about to change. This Leeds team and its coaching staff, have run its course. Time for some hard decisions.

sorry mate, just a light hearted dig at Gotcha for his comment on needing to be at the game.No doubt it was a knock on no complaints here

Didn't the Cas player gather that knock on by Hardaker anyway? So they would've had the ball either way?

Sorry pal haha. Glad you agree. The ref was poor for both sides as I stated but your lack of attack in the last 20 meters cost you. Not the ref.

Thought he might have got the call wrong on the Ablett/McShane tussel but Ablett was dumb in that situation also.

Schofield just picked out Huddersfield, Hull and Castleford as his early season disappointments, presume Backchat was recorded before tonight's latest Shambles.

Definitely felt like a game lost rather than a game Castleford won. All that possession and position and not a clue what to do with it.

Child was crap, but that's par for the course with some shockers for both teams. Leeds have no one to blame but themselves.

We are one of the rabble teams now. Cas did their usual trick of bending over last week in preparation for the cup final. No doubt they'll be stocking up on lube for the trip to Catalans.

- Leeds last tackle plays are terrible. No organisation. It's either blindly passed along the line hoping for something to materialize or it's a game of pass the parcel to see who can do a kick which puts the opposition under no pressure.

- Leeds have no control whatsoever at the play the ball. Teams are running amock and making ground easily. Not once this season has the team been able to exert any of that control during a game where they restrict a team to kicking from inside their own 40, repeatedly, while the pressure squeezes them into mistakes and concentration lapses. Teams are consistently kicking the 5th deep inside our own half which is resulting in difficult kicks to defend and repeat sets. It's causing lots of penalties, how often are we seeing an opposition tackler hitting the ground with a lone defender clinging onto his legs. Then from that it's either a lightning quick play the ball which canes us on the next play or a penalty. Either we way our defence is blasted.

- Close to the line the team simply passes it along the line and hopes for something to materialise. That's it. Sometimes one of the forwards get's an offload away on one of the short barge plays which can create a fractured defence for us to exploit, but even then the resultant play is often defended.

This season is rapidly running away from us. We are simply off the pace, the form isn't on any kind of upward trend. Arguably our best performance was round 1. Our worst arguably our first win. It's all over the place. We will need to start a significant winning run, fairly soon to have any hope of clawing back the ground.