I always look to the stats after, and I have a particular draw to missed tackles, because it tells a lot about a team. I think last night was Leeds lowest of the season, although still a poor 21 misses. Salford missed a ridiculous 39 tackles, that is poor. More alarming there is that despite this, and despite our dominance as a result, we still had to rely on a lucky last minute penalty to scrape the win.

Our defending has been poor all season, but this IMO, is a direct result of what we do when we have the ball, and our whole attack is just not good enough.

I see the post about Sutcliffe, and this apologist mentality for him all the time gets repetitive. It was actually already stated he won us the game, and that is not in doubt, he produced the two moments that mattered, and deserved the credit. But the rest of the game he bombed so much for us, and contributed 3 missed tackles, and four errors. Those were important faults, and exactly why it gets mentioned. You can’t just turn up for two minutes a game. Luke Briscoe was also critisized for the same reason, but his position is far less important to the team.

Good post

Wonder if Richie Myler is embarrassed about his antics this morning having just seen a clip of your last minute penalty.....?

And opposition fans wonder why it's so hard to get a result at Headingley after being shafted 2 seasons in a row by forward passes and inept refereeing.

Not that I'd expect any Leeds fan to admit we were cheated as along with Wiganers you're the most blinkered fans in rugby league.

Think we've had more than our fair share of bad luck this year by a long way. But the best team on the night won. We would have been robbed with only a point

I have to say in my opinion tho it was a pretty terrible call by Child at that point of the game. Yes the Salford player knocked the ball out but it was in making the tackle and not in an act of stealing the ball. We certainly got one there.

Terrible game tho, both teams were embarrassing to be honest.

Thought Crosby and Briscoe did well but really some of the attacking play was....well worse than junior rugby. My God an organising 6 and a tackle breaking forward or 2 are essential for next year.

Some hard work ahead to rebuild for next season as we all know. Surviving was the aim and that's virtually done now if not already achieved.

2 more games to suffer folks and let's see what off season brings.

I think what Watson said was spot on correct. What he failed to mention was the number of times this went in favour of Salford in that second half, which would have made the two incidents he spoke about completely irrelevant, had they been pulled properly.

As for Myler, I really think the club should be sending a legal letter to sky and Carney for the ridiculous comments made there. That really was bang out of order and over stepped the mark. He should be publically apologising for that, especially considering all he saw was highlights, and then actually got the ruling wrong. To think it was bloody Phil Clark who was the voice of reason.

I would deffinatly sign Crosby up longer term, he's a good super league prop, english, only 27 and got big game experience, he's a lot better than Mullally imo. Think this season has shown you need 6 first team props in the squad, Garbutt, Singleton, Peteru, Crosby, Oledzki and a good quality new signing would put us in good shape for nxt season .

Thank you Gotcha and a few others for a mature balanced post instead of the Junior Anorak Brigade.

Watson wears his heart on his sleeve - remember these lads are playing for survival ... some for their family`s as clearly - even with contracts - they are not good enough for SL (Both sides). The two last minute decisions Childs made were BOTH wrong & very harsh.

A draw would have been the right result and also would have suited both sides.

It was a play at the ball in my view, if not he made contact with Mylers head which, going by the precedent set earlier in the half by the ref, is a penalty.

Some Salford fans appear to be forgetting the bizarre sinbinning earlier in the game. A sinbinning and penalty that would not have happened had the Salford player not stayed down injured.
Quite how Child and the touch judge went from allowing play on to a penalty and a sin bin I have no idea.

On the game itself, I thought Leeds were the most dominant team and showed a lot more patience than usual, though still lacking a bit of strike. When we play wide too early we look a bit lost. When we go forward first and then go wide we start looking dangerous.
Moon proving what a good player he is at centre and Sutcliffe unfortunately showing that despite the good things he does he’s not reliable. Too many silly decisions and mistakes from him that the good things can’t make up for.
Whoever got out to block the drop goal (was it Parcell?) and not only that but get on the ball as well deserves a medal!
Thought Briscoe, Moon, Singleton, Cuthbertson, Walker, Myler and Crosby were good.

I know what Gotcha means about our attack affecting our defence, however I think it’s the other way around. I think our lack of bite in defence is affecting our attack. We’re having to start further downfield and are more tired from backpedaling and scrambling more, and I think we don’t have confidence in our ability to keep a team penned in upfield so feel like we have to score when we attack rather than simply apply pressure. Which is why I was pleased with our patience (for the most part) in this game, and annoyed at Sutcliffe trying a daft offload after multiple sets on Salford’s line.