Why didn't Orford play?

Nonsense, Reardon is no winger and should be playing at full back. Sykes is improving week by week and Sherrife had a mare today granted but he puts some hard yards in and gets involved.
Who would you replace these players with without compromising the rest of the team?

Well not really simple as. Two of those are homegrown and the other has gone ok this year.

Cant belive people actually stand up for Sheriffe, he is a joke.

with a different ref i wouldnt mind. it was a pretty good game apart from the shocking decisions made by the ref for both sides.

Leeds' first score is from a blatent forward pass
Reardon drops the ball over the line
Sykes is given a 15 yard head start by a PROP and still gets caught
Sheriffe drops a bomb 10 yards from his own line (leeds score in following set)
Sheriffe drops the ball over the line
Lynch drops the ball over the line


Those are the main reasons we lost, added to the fact that we were missing Orford, Kearney and Langley - 3 key players in our relatively small squad.

The video ref decisions are dubious, but both sides had disputable decisions so they pretty much even themselves out.

silverwood has never been a good ref and never will be. why he gets to ref big games like this is beyond me.

hope we get french ref next week as he is one of the best refs this year.

Kirke catching Sykes

You forgot to mention that you had tons of possession in the first half and dominated the territory still lost the first half 12-14 by only scoring 2 tries.

Also forgot to mention you lost the foward battle by some margin in the second half and Leeds just hit the holes and were clinical.

That is why you lost. And dont mention injuries as Leeds were without 4 players that would walk into most SL sides - Peacock, Burrow, Webb and Lauitiiti,

Dear oh dear. I cannot believe that some people are blaming the ref for the defeat!!! The ref was atrocious for BOTH SIDES today and the decisions kinda even themselves out. OK, the first Leeds try was from a forward pass but the one chalked off for McGuire was a certain score for me.

Sheriffe was absolutely appalling. He had one of the worst all round performances I have ever seen today. He was e going forward and even worse in defence.

There won't be a PT poll this week cos we lost but pretty much more of the same it appears. Plenty of possession but no end product.

I also questioned the signing of Reardon. He has done absolutely nothing to suggest that my fears were unfounded.

Sykes did ok but on the hottest weekend of the year on the lushest pitch I have ever seen, how did he manage to end up treading water after he made that break?

Thank God Leeds were without Leuluai from much of the game and Burgess so that their interchanges were compromised or else it would have been much much worse.

The incidents that I mentioned were key events during the game - most involving dropped ball - that would have directly affected the scoreline had the balls not been spilled etc.

A statement like "leeds hit the holes" is a bit more of a generalisation that while true, isn't pinpointing a specific moment that resulted in points being scored.

HTH

you not see this thread?

All woeful Leeds trollocks here, cheers

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