Sorry, the best team never loses. The aim of rugby league is to score more points than your opposition, if you do that your the winner and thus, the best team.

Have to agree. I wasn't at all impressed with the decision against O'Loughlin but he evened it up by penalising Sinfield. Had he given that decision against Wigan then we could have had a justified argument.

Wigan unlucky, best team for most of the game. Penalty count was just about even, but O'Loughlin cost you a lot of territory in the second half by ball stealing. Leeds didn't seem to know what tactics to employ. I was amazed that they chose to kick two penalties in the time that Farrell was in the sin bin.

I think it was avery tense game which we dominated for most parts we just needed to be a bit more composed at times. Like when Sam could have put a kick in to amos instead of throwing a daft pass. And the kick charged down by Peacock he should have stood a lot deeper.Dont get me wrong Im a big tomkins fan he will learn from this hopefully grand final time.

Inexperience, but yes he will learn from that game and the couple of mistakes he made, very good young "British" player player though.

Quality game!

Excellent cup tie with the result in doubt right up to the final minute.

Congrats on making it so, but you do yourselves a disservice by whinging on about ifs and buts and maybes.

Leave that sort of nonsense to the Bradford lot, they're experts at it!

See youz all at Old Trafford come October!

Snatched defeat from reach of victory,How many times did we have Leeds in own 20 after 3 tackles to give away a pen, No sustained pressure on there line. Cannot remember us look like scoring. Only positive we can take is we know were we lost the game.

No, but the better team does lose sometimes.
When there is a bigger margin, say 10 points, then it is unlikely that the better team has lost.

Could have gone either way.

Don't think bentham was as bad as our fans were making out but he changed the game unfairly with first senior and then sending farrell in the bin, he was already in the air before mcguire even kicked the ball.

Harsh but was impressed how we hung in there in the 2nd half particulary.

Disagree really, if the score is so tight then generally the stats will be quite even (as they were yesterday).

Then it comes down to who makes the bigger plays in the game, in yesterdays case it was Leeds / Smith who made the big play when it was needed and that made them the better team. IMO anyway.

Those types of games live long in the memories for the victorious, every club has their own over the years:

Renouf to Rads for us v Bradford.
Saints Wide to West try.

For this to happen there has to be a loser, unfortunately it was our turn.

I think it is fair to say it was agreat game where two teams played fantastically given the conditions, but someone had to lose, this time it was wigan maybe next time it will be the other side

Please stop using excuses look in the papers you clearly were not the best team or you would have won, its all about taking chances you had a couple you didnt take them Leeds did end of story really,

Oh and by the way you still have alot of work to do to reach the grand final by no means a cert, just loose with diginity, fans of other clubs would respect you so much more, as you have said before no one has adevine right to win any game trophy or title.

Yes the ref was poor but for both sides just try takeing you red and white specks off ans look objectively at the game

Too true fella.

Maybe if the dimwit hadnt been offside the referee wouldnt have had to call him for it!!!???