Stepping away from the whole refereeing issue for a moment, the most pleasing aspect for me is that we have taken 7 points out of 8 in the games against Wigan, Saints, Bradford and Catalans, and we should really have got all 8. The Leeds team of a year ago would probably have lost all of these games (granted, the Huddersfield result was in and amongst these games, but losing badly to them at home is our new yearly tradition it seems). The difference in our defence in the space of a year is very impressive.

Leeds received eight while conceding sixteen - making a total of twenty-four. Not sure the spectacle, such as it was, could cope with an even higher count than that. Is that what McDermott is asking for here?

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Some posters have mentioned the two penalties conceded immediately after the interval. Spare a thought for the official trying again to set the standard early and get the game moving after a pretty turgid opening forty minutes. IMO he waited too long to issue the official warning or use the sin-bin for offences that occurred after it - choosing even to ignore some rather than penalise knowing it would inevitably incur a yellow card and further unbalance the contest. He even had to remind the Leeds captain that the warning was still in place even after Bailey was dismissed.

It's too easy to blame the official trying to get a flowing game on when the players (presumably under instruction) are out to spoil and slow the game down to a standstill.

The Penalty count was a fair reflection of what went on during the game - Leeds found a way of strangling the life out of the Catalans, thats Rugby League, the fact that Thaler hammered Leeds shouldn't even be debated.

What should is how miserable the performance of table topping Catalans actually was, no game plan, no structure beyond hammering it down the middle all night.

I hate to say it but at this moment in time Leeds can play when they like and how they like and I wouldn't bet against them winning the GF again in October - the competition just isn't there, great if you support Leeds, not so great if you support the need for ESL to evolve and the home Nations to compete at International level with the likes of Australia and NZ.

I just keep hoping to see a game where Leeds aren't correctly penalised for high shots or late, off the ball incidents.
It grieves me to see my team reinforcing the claims of opposition fans that we're a dirty team.
I can accept most calls, it's legitimate IMV to go as far as they can to slow down the PTB, not by sticking hands in, but by getting 3 & 4 men in the tackle.
That will on occasions be penalised as will holding players up & pushing them back or into touch.
But more often than not if players make a "reasonable" attempt to get off the tackled player or stop shoving they will be ok.

What I noticed on Monday was the amount of times the Catalan players moved away from the mark where the tackle took place.
This either resulted in Leeds messing about at the play the ball or not standing square when the ball was played.
At one time refs used to pull the man playing the ball up for that discretion.

Catalans players are the worst for moving off the mark, and we conceded a few penalties because of it