I do not think the title of "penalty machine " is correct or fair. In the Huddersfield game he had 2 penalties against him - same as Cuthbertson and Parcel.. Both these 2 and McGuire have given more away this season and Ablett just as many.

What you fail to consider is that players who are most involved at the coal face of collision are most likely to lose penalties and due to the low standard of officials not all the these decisions are correct.

Given the team the Giants had out I thought they performed better than expected and were the better side on the night, Leeds weren't unlucky to lose they were well beaten

I'm not surprised Leeds fans are spewing. Hudds were Missing Leroy, taai, Rapira, Gaskell, symonds and Lawrence who would all have been in the squad if fit. Other injuries to back up players too. Three 19 yr olds in the side including one playing for the first time at half back. At home behind a partisan crowd and the rhinos at the top of the table can't beat a struggling Huddersfield side.
I agree with McDermott - we weren't great. We were better than we have been only in that we showed more desire than we have in recent weeks and brough performed at his best which he hasn't much this season. Our creativity near the line was as poor as it has been all season and there were some poor defensive reads. So it's the refs fault and Leeds are better than hudds.

who said its the refs fault?? possibly one person

Perhaps it may be better in that case, to take your having a pop at the Rhinos fans to social media rather than here, where the vast majority of the posters are critisizing Leeds players and coach for the loss.

I don't doubt Huddersfield had a fair few missing, so too did Leeds, and it is embarrassing when posters ignore this from other teams but always look for excuses for Leeds. However, whatever the names on the shirt there was no better team out there of the two, and both should be embarrassed in their performance. They were two very poor teams, in a current league that is full of poor quality teams.

There was a better team....the team that won. They scored more points and defended better.

No there wasn't which is what I said. A team won, that is different. Many games over the years where the better team lost. On this occasion neither was better, they were both equally poor.

Find a way to score more points, significantly more, the there's the best team.

I don't do social media. I did but never realised there were so many retards in this world

No it isn't it is the winning team. The view you state is the sort of one who looks at a paper and reads results rather than forms the opinion from the match. Teams do lose by scoring more tries too, purely by missed kicks, does that make them better or worse? Nobody can claim credit of been the better team on Thursday night. They can claim they got the victory and two points, nothing else.

I watched the game intently. My conclusion comes from the fact that whilst two poor teams competed, one of those teams defended better, kicked better and scored significantly more points.....thus.....the better team won.

The better team did win. That they were of poor quality says a lot about the Leeds performance, but it is true to say the better team won.

They did kick better, that's about the only thing you have right. They both had the same carries, but Leeds made more metres. Leeds made more breaks. Leeds made more offloads. Despite you saying they defended better they actually missed tackles 20% more than Leeds. In nine out of ten games, with stats like that the losing team would normally be the winner. Does that mean Leeds were the better team? No, because they never took advantage of which those stats should give them. Huddersfield on the other hand were lucky they were playing a team that poor. There wasn't a better team out of it. There was a team that won, and that is it.