You cannot knock the effort JJB makes, the application is the issue - the number of dumb penalties he gives away is criminal for a senior professional and last night was no exception.

This is exactly spot on. It is wasted energy. Someone putting in the work rate that guy does, should be contiributing more to the team performance from a positive level not a negative. He was poor last night, despite his top top effort in work rate. His missed tackles alone was a contributing factor to the defeat.

As Sal and Gotcha put JJB did put a lot of effort in but he was shooting out of the line leaving space for Huddersfield to take advantage of. He was also pushing the line at the play the ball which is a dangerous game when you have a whistle happy ref.

It is a good job Leeds had an easy week the CC week - it could have been even more embarrassing if they had a hard SL game the week previous (sic)

Conversely would they have been more prepared mentally and physically if theyd had a league match instead

Woosh

Both teams were poor for mine. The difference was Hudds played and dealt with the conditions better and looked like it mattered to them. With a few exceptions we looked like we couldn't be ar$ed for large portions of the game, especially in the second 40. We could also do with a tactical kicker with the talent and vision of ET.

It's a good job we throw in these kind of performances/results now and again otherwise some people wouldn't be able to tell us how cr@p the club is and how we have been papering over the cracks for over a decade. Gives them false hope that they might be correct before we end up picking up silverware again and making them look silly

I wonder if it was us discussing that person who is allegedly a bad influence on certain players

I agree, we probably could've beaten them even in 2nd gear, but we were more like in reverse.

McDermott seems to be copping some stick for saying Hudds didn't play that well, but he's spot on, they didn't. Hudds fans saying he should be gracious in defeat is laughable given some of there post match reactions to defeats especially the LLS win at there place and putting it all down to the ref winning the league for us.

I agree. I thought it was refreshing to read McDermotts comments. They were spot on and honest. Still think he got it wrong on the night, but his comments after were 100% correct.

BMD was his usual honest self in the post match interview. He always calls it as he sees it in my view, but I don't always agree with his assessment. His integrity is beyond question, it's his coaching and preparation of the team I sometimes have issues with.

Totally agree. He wears his heart on his sleeve and tells it as he sees it. I don't think he was dissing Huddersfield and he credited their goal line defence with winning them the match. His comments were aimed at our squad not theirs. This was not a Cas in red hot form defeat, this was a Leeds were utter garbage defeat, was how I read his comment.

Blame that on his lack of rotation he isn't an 80 monute player anymore yet the Coach thinks otherwise.