Have you seen the size of Bradford's pitch? I'd be suprised if they were even 10 meters back, let alone 12.

Don't let the whitewash fool you...

Thanks for that. I don't keep the penalty count religiously as it were so there's always liable to be the odd gap here and there but that will do nicely.

Hurts when it happens to you for a change, doesn't it? And yes, as I'm sure you would have told us had the positions been reversed (as has been the case all too often of late), you DO sound paranoid...

I cant argue if you are saying the lines are not 10 metres. But in scale to what the lines were meant to be it was 12 metres.

I presume the officials look to the lines though, and if so Smith got that one badly wrong.

In the interest of fairness, Bradford's pitch is now only a couple of metres or so short of the full 100m - it was extended several years ago. It is also pretty wide.

Hang on a minute Adey. I am not talking specifically about last night in the whole. I have not mentioned the silly video ref desions, hopefully that will be put to bed and it finally puts behind us Millenium Magic.

Whas I was sepcifically talking about was Leeds discipline, and the conceeding of penalties. I pointed out two specific incidents last night that were wrong, as an example as to, how can the players improve that.

They should bring back the upturned corners...

Was Smith one sided in his officiating?

It generally didn't appear that way to me. More analysis is needed if you want to give a balanced view based on the whole 80 minutes rather than a one-sided snapshot taken here and there.

Ask your mate at the gym it sounds like he'd know.

Sorry then - I misunderstood - assumed from what you said that you were on about "biased" referees, in the mould of Bradford fans over recent years!



One thing I noted from the replay - you had the timing of coming off the completed tackle down to perfection. Two seconds (almost aways) after Smith shouted "held", he shouted "move!". Pretty well always three seconds after that, your guys moved. To the nanosecond. Every time. About one nanosecond short of ranking for a penalty. I said elsewhere that that is something we should learn from, cos your discipline there seemed superb.

In answer to your question, yes I would say he was one sided, in relation to the offiside ruling, and a fair 10 metres.

However that is irrelevant. What I was asking is, pointing out the specific decision last night about 4 minutes into second half. How can the players stop that from happening in the future? Other than going even further than 12 metres back which would be stupid.

And its not the first time this season, it happend twice at Hull KR earlier in the season. Pulled for offiside despite been more than the required 10 metres back.

And Smith never pinged Bradford in the exact same way at any time during the 80 minutes?

Not according to the Sky Sports coverage unless my ears were deceiving me when Clarke made the self same comment you've just made only with the boot firmly on the other foot.

PMSL

Get yourself to Fartown and join the revolution if things are that bad







You have serious issues.