Gouldens try was good, the ball was knocked forward by a cats hand the video shows it clearly - well the DVD does - and the ref was only feet away.

Fair enough Fred - I was just going from what my (slightly less than 20/20) eyes saw.

Still don't think he cost us the game - we did create enough chances/half chances to win it. (deservedly IMO)

Alan, there was only 6 points in it, they were awarded a try (converted) wherby evidence suggests it was dubious to say the least. I cannot see how this potentially did not cost us a chance of a golden point game unless there were other decisions which were incorrect leading to our points or incorrect in chalking of any of their scores.

I take your point about the times when we could have been a little more clinical but there were times when they could have been more linical and scored, but on both accounts neither team scored.

Childs cost us the opportunity of a golden point game and these days I do not blame the referee for our misfortunes when once upon a time it was always the refs faul t

Finally getting round to watching the game again and Catalans' first try in the second half was never grounded in the memory of man. Scandal.

Having watched the game again, the bounced try was exactly that a bounce.Some of Childs calls were pure guess work IMO.

Anyone else notice how long McGilvray was held back for after dropping the intercept in the lead up to their last try? Still none the wiser as to how the ball went flying forward when Blanch was tackled.

Me neither but I assume he must have kicked it.Re Deano being held back 'about 2 seconds in my view.

just a question (not a criticism) - what do you Leythers think about the attendance of 2237 ?

seems a bit low for me for a visiting SL side ?

I thought most Leythers were expecting 3000+ ?

No away fans.

...and a split gate

so during the 2005 SL season half the fans who attended were visiting fans ?

assuming an average of about 5000 ish,that is

TBH the less said about the att the better but i did have a laugh when they annouced it.

At the time, it appeared that Blanch's inside pass hit a Leigh player and bounced towards our line. A Leigh player (Govin?) dived on the ball, but only succeeeded in knocking it even further towards our line, and Henderson scored. I thought that was a legitimate, if lucky, try. I believe Fred has already confirmed that he thought it was a 'good' try, too.

I dont think thats a bad crowd considering theres no complimentary tickets for the cup games and no season ticket holders can get in apart from SL ones, so like i say no season ticket holders got in for free, so not bad at all.

Fax were hoping for a sell out today but i think we will sell about 2K tickets and Bradford cant give away 3K tickets to their 10K+ season ticket holders. Oh the magic of the cup.