Fantastic performance. Our pack was absolutely outstanding.

Headingley quiet as a church for most of the night.

But no matter how good you are - you can't fight being stiffed by the video ref. These guys are robbing sides week after week.

Well played lads.

Sinfield's kick turned it. I thought Leeds did a Saints on Saints and hanged on to a game they were barely in to then go on and win it. I thought Roby was absolutely immense as was Savelio and Amor.

Watching on Sky I certainly didn't feel like it was any sort of robbery. The decisions all seemed fair enough.

Nothing wrong with the video ref calls imo. We lost fair and square.


The effort was there tonight but just not good enough. I expected a big defeat but we really did put in the effort and work tonight

Massive effort from saints tonight, 100% commitment from all the players, some great touches, virtually no stupid penalties either. Very proud of the team and of KC. There have been the usual knockers all year, but again Saints have given it there all, just not quite good enough on the night.

Brilliant effort from Saints but they are a champion team, Leeds.

We weren't quite good enough...but if Amor could have gone over it would have been a different outcome.

Credit to Leeds.

Leeds were there for the taking tonight and Saints blew it. It seems some supporters accept being mediocre with dumb moves by some dumb players.

Considering the injuries, bravery and guts I can't say a bad word about them.

Try scoring with the watchstrap buckle never used to be close to a try. Perhaps we'll move to the radius bone at Old Trafford.

No point dwelling on it. Par for the course in this league.

Roll on next year!

One of the turning points was the tackle on the non ball carrier when Peacock through the dummy. Brian Noble said it was a very harsh penalty resulting in the try. Big effort from the pack with Makinson, Percival and Wilkin injured.

LOL stiffed by the video ref? Hall gets that ball down, the rules are with any part of the arm, he gets it down with his forearm. Might frown upon that being the rule, but it's a rule nonetheless. Leeds won fair and square.

LOL - only big teams (champions) allowed in this thread, son.

Great game. Two good sides. Not much between them can't complain really.

We had our chances Leeds had theirs in the end a goal kick between us.

A fair result.

Some big efforts tonight.

Sinfields 40/20 turned it for me.

what a cock, nothing wrong with the try, as someone else said in this thread Leeds hung on and the 40/20 turned the game

Headingley wasn't quiet...Sky had turned the volume levels right down, possibly because they feared the usual "referee/Phil Clarke is a ..." chants.

And the video ref got it right according to current rules. Worst decisions of the night were missing the Amor knock-on and linging McGuire for a marginal offside on his line when Saints were further offside most of the night.

For me there were four key moments in that game. The two most obvious were Walsh's missed conversion and that brilliant 40/20 by Sinfield. The other two both involved poor decisions by Jon Wilkin (who I must say had a great game overall). The first was halfway through the first half. We were on top and had a set in the Leeds 10 and JW booted it dead on tackle 3. Straight from there we conceded a penalty and then Leeds were on top for the rest of the half. The second was with 5 mins to go. We'd been in our own 20 for a while and had made our way to Leeds's 40. Instead of putting a kick up and turning the screw on Leeds he threw a speculative long pass which turned out to be forward. We never got a look in after that. Small things, I know, but in matches like that they can be the difference.

I can't complain, though. It was about as well as we've played all year, and we had season best performances from Vea and Amor, as well as some heroic efforts from obviously injured players.

A great game, and an end to our season that probably offers a genuine reflection of where we are as a team: nearly there, but not quite.