I was pretty much in line with both disallowed Cas tries, and both were clearly forward passes. It was a good advert for why they don't go to the video ref for such things, as some of the angles made them look OK. They weren't.

We took our performance to another level tonight.

Laid a platform, were very good defensively, had lots of runners and looked dangerous all night with ball in hand. I though McDermott was in last chance saloon after the Hudds game, I'm glad he's bought himself some time and I hope he can continue to turn it round.

McGuire was great tonight, stepped it up another level from Monday. McShane was outstanding and probably my MOM. JJB, Ablett, Hall and Delaney very good and Watkins had a quiet night but was very effective in what he did.

Thanks GCH. I ranted on another thread about Stevo's reaction to the replays when they were never clear cut. On what was shown on tele I'd have probably given them but no replay ever showed a clear overhead shot to be able to make a proper judgement on.

I'll say. Cas had a lot of time in our 20 in the first half, on the back of some very good play, but they couldn't find a way over our line. Some outstanding last line tackling kept them out.

Your defence was very good tonight.

so what you think about leeds 2nd try......or dont you talk of such things on the blinkered leeds forum?

I can't comment, I wasn't in line with it. As I explained, TV replays can be deceptive. If I'd been in line and it was forward, I'd say so. For example, one of the offloads from Webb when receiving the re-start was forward (slightly). I was in line for that one.

I thought it was OK, marginal but OK. I also your 2 were OK as well and that you were a bit unlucky.

IS that blinkered enough for you

Well i can tell you it was clearly forward,this is why they have video refs for such things, as some of the angles made them look ok when they weren"t...a crucial call after the cas disallowed try,just one of those nights.

Which pass? The final one?

As I've said you were unlucky but we were certainly the better team all night though.

Rangi Chase is some player!

Wasn't he a bloody nuisance all night? Good game in a well beaten team. He always looked dangerous.

No arguments here, tonight we were well beaten by a better team, the referee had no bearing on the result, on another day with a little bit of luck we May have been more of a challenge for Leeds but for now well done Leeds and see you back at headingley.

Ps as much as maguire gets under my skin when he plays us it was good to see him back and just knew he would pop up with his customary try.

Watching on TV sometimes I wasn't even sure if he'd given the ball or not!

THe play when we broke up their last tackle play and he chipped through and forced a drop out was sheer class. SOmetimes you just have to stand and applaud!

Forget the score, it was a blowout in the end, the performance is the thing to focus on. We were much better than we have been in the early part of the season in terms of structure, patience, execution, and dare I say it discipline. We gave away penalties, but the overall discipline was better. We had (some) dummy runners, and options with ball in hand, an generally didn't throw the suicide balls we did earlier in the season. Maybe the coach has learned from our mistakes and changed the gameplan to something more sensible and achievable.

If you wanted to look for negatives, Senior continues to underperform in the Centres and is a defensive liability, never sticking to the structure and exposing those outside him time and again. His handling was also poor, typified by the knock back which looked great but hid a poor take of the ball in the first place. As soon as Smith is fit I woul put him on the wing and put Watkins in the left centre. Another negative was the number of times we finished a set poorly. We (Burrow) were caught in possession on the last tackle a few times and our kicking game still needs a lot of work, evidenced by the lack of field position in the first half.

Overall, another step forward, and the first time this season we have beaten a team above us, but there will be bigger and harder tests to come.

Agree with most of that. I think we need to make a decision on Watkins because he looks a bloody good winger to me, and at times not a great centre. It might be a better option to play Smith at centre