Quote Him="Him"I agree the main issue was Leeds poor performance especially in the first half. However some of those decisions were ridiculous as was the decision not to penalise the frequent holding down and not square at marker from London. Then the penalties he gave against us in the 2nd half totally reversed the momentum we had built up. We didn’t get that same benefit. It’s also a frustration compounded by recent games where the reffing has been less than fair to us.
We played well for about 15-20 mins. The other 60 mins was bottom 3 material.'"
Kendall did not cost us the game but some of the decisions were questionable.
For their opening penalty Pelisier forcibly plays the ball (with his foot - who does that these days?) back into Merrin who has just made the tackle but the penalty was actually for offside as we failed to retreat back the 14 metres where Kendall set the mark.
On the halfway line a London player (not sure who) steps a good metre forward off the mark making the Leeds defensive line offside. Again it is a penalty one way or the other and they get the call. They get field position from this and score. Eventually they later get penalised for stepping off the mark.
I'd need to see Walker's disallowed try again but it didn't scream obstruction to me. Maybe Sutty ran through the line and he ran round the back?
I also recall a London player going down when they had a scrum about 10 metres from their tryline. 2 of their players checked he was okay then left him. Kendall stopped the clock, did not deploy the shot clock and they had a nice rest before the player got up and packed down. I appreciate that there may have been head injury concerns but his team mates did not seem bothered about him and I thought that the shot clock was supposed to get away from this sort of thing (or have I misunderstood?).
Of course these things are soon forgotten if we play well and win and to reiterate Kendall did not cost us the game but it is still frustating.
