My thoughts on the game......

Quote: deanos rhinos "....have just returned from the game and don't know wether to laugh or cry, especially at the refs performace. I'm not saying that the ref has made us lose today because I think we were'nt that far from winning, we just needed a bit of luck. Danny, Rob and Ali all made good breaks that I believe if our confidence was higher and we'd had some luck we could have easily converted those into points. The interception did'nt either. We're not quite at the races yet, and I'm sure it will come soon, I don't want to be playing our best footy now, we can leave that until the summer.

But I would like to comment on the ref, I though he was totally out of depth and was not fair for either side, we lost the penalty count 17-7, but it's not the number of penalties that bother me (well it does a little) it's where they are on the field and if they are back to back. Wakefield had 2 back to back and scored from both, that's just bad discipline. 80m bad discipline. But he did'nt control the ruck and seemed to ping us very quickley, the one against Buderus near the end was possiblely the quickest PTB of the game. It was laughable I'd just like to see more consistancy, by treating both sides the same. There was only 1 penalty in the game for not standing square, something he chose not to police for 65 mins, then he pulled us for offside under our own posts twice in 3 sets, Brough kicked the last one. At various times at the end of the first half when we were attacking and could have scored, not 1 defender had any foot behind the line, never mind 2 feet, again something he chose not to police. My point is, to give your opponants 17 more sets in a game will make the game very hard to win, but I think not all were warrented, he did'nt penalise both sides for the same offence. He seemd to pick and chose, this is what Sinfield was pointing out and Peacock was too in the first half, he pointed to the place where Rob B. was tackled and held down by Brough in the first half, probably saving 6 points and could have been sin binned. If we don't get treated the same as other sides we are going to be on the end of some big penalty counts and will struggle to make if 4 in a row. Certain Leeds players need to get off the tackled man very quickly......or else.'"

yawn

by the way how many forward passes did he miss today Leeds call it a flat pass