The play acting was an absolute disgrace. Is this the way the game is heading?

On a serious note though, why the hell can’t we compete for eighty minutes? Maybe the fattest conditioner in the world could explain....

Not seen your game, but Catalans were doing the same at saints, my guess is they were feigning injury at every scrum and every drop out. Bird was the main play actor in our game.

how fit or unfit are these players ?

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Thirty years I’ve been watching Leeds, and I’ve honestly never seen anything like it. Of course, the RFL franchise won’t be punished for it.
The referee even warned them about play acting, then proceeded to ping Leeds every time.

We are apparently close to been a VERY good team though. Some idiot said so anyway.

Shocking performance that second half. Yes the play acting was embarrassing, but Catalans fully deserved the win. Even the first half was nothing close to a Friday performance.

Whoever though Sutcliffe could be an half, really does need their head testing. Not the only poor player, but certainly Miles away from playing that role.

Some players even managed to make Walters look a star. Walker was clearly our MOM, and big shouts for Luke Briscoe and Oledzki.

Not sure the referee could do much more - with what certainty can you say someone is play acting? Maybe a team warning but even that would need a trigger penalty to lead to a sin bin and he has no way to be certain what's a real injury.
It should just be a matter of self respect that you wouldn't go down like that.

At the end of it all Leeds didn't deserve to win - five teenagers in the side, they got tired in the second half. I can cope with that even if the pressure on McDermott continues to mount.

Agree that Catalan were the best team and deserved the win. They run harder and tackled harder all night. Our right edge was exposed again. Newman was caught out again a couple of times. Hopefully he will come good but he is learning the hard way atm.
Few bright spots but thought Luke Briscoe showed up well. He made ground with his carries and finished his try well.
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Catalan were worthy winners but there time wasting tactics were a blight on the game. Players staying down repeatedly to slow the game down. It's time this was clamped down on. It's not just Catalans that do it admittedly, but that was the worst example tonight. If it is not a head injury play should continue. A player went down on the wing, a metre from the touchline and was knelt up and play was halted. He could have been treated out of touch.
A bad night and make no mistake we are in a fight to avoid the middle 8's. 1 point from a possible 8 against Hudderfield and Catalan is not good enough.

Trully awfull second half, sickening muddle 8’s is really looking like a possibility now. Next two games wigan Then Cas away, cant see ys getting anything from either fame,then its do or die against wakfield. Cant see us winning more than two games rest of reguler rounds, and if we do stay in top 8 were then just making up numbers.
2 points in 9 games and 6 losses on the bounce. Thats us most definitely a slump.
We need to do something soon or we ate going to be a mid table side for 4-5 years.

Sutcliffe is simply not good enough in any position championship player. Was awfull tonight possibly the worst halfback performance by a leeds half since ben walker was here. Bin him off utter crap.

We need and a meen need 5-6 new players and 5-6 completely binnedd off and think we will still needs couple more lean seasons to be up there again.

Terrible second half performance after an encouraging first, thought the tries we scored were very classy especially walker’s and smith’s. God knows what happened we were shocking and just let Catalans run at us for fun and they deserved the win.

Having said that Cats were a disgrace I don’t think I've ever seen a team play act so much in such a short space of time especially when they didn’t really have to, if they had concentrated on actually playing the game rather than conning the ref they'd have won by more, it needs stamping out of our game and quick we are becoming like Football

We can all moan about Catalans time wasting tactics but let's be honest at 24-10 up at HT we only have ourselves to blame.

We are desperate for some bodies back now. Hopefully we can get Myler, Ward, Ablett and Singo back soon and obviously Hall back from States.

To end on a positive once again Walker and Mikolaj did themselves proud tonight. Two young men who are made of the right stuff and stood up to be counted tonight as per every week and I think Garbutt has done really well last 2 games. We need him to stay healthy.

I dont think anyone is blaming the catalans tactics for the lss which is why its more baffling that they used them, if they had bothered to actually try snd play RL for the last 10 they would gave beaten us by more than 3 points.

Agree on Walker and Oledski, walkers try was sheer class, a black g wrap for Cameron Smith aswell who is teally coming if age, his try was one of the best of the season for me.

Garbutt is and as always been one of the best props in SL

ever since someone on here months ago said 'this is a must win game' I don't think we've won a game

Can't keep using injuries as an excuse for poor halfs of or worse of RL.
At 24-10 there's enough experience on that park to see out the game but yet another abject failure.

I agree tonight there was no excuse for not winning that game.

But Injuries are one of the reasons we are where we are, if we were getting hammered every week it would be different and I would say theres more of a deep rooted problem if that was the case, as it is Id say its a mixture of confidence and lack of troops, thats just my opinion