Conversely would they have been more prepared mentally and physically if theyd had a league match instead

Woosh

Both teams were poor for mine. The difference was Hudds played and dealt with the conditions better and looked like it mattered to them. With a few exceptions we looked like we couldn't be ar$ed for large portions of the game, especially in the second 40. We could also do with a tactical kicker with the talent and vision of ET.

It's a good job we throw in these kind of performances/results now and again otherwise some people wouldn't be able to tell us how cr@p the club is and how we have been papering over the cracks for over a decade. Gives them false hope that they might be correct before we end up picking up silverware again and making them look silly

I wonder if it was us discussing that person who is allegedly a bad influence on certain players

I agree, we probably could've beaten them even in 2nd gear, but we were more like in reverse.

McDermott seems to be copping some stick for saying Hudds didn't play that well, but he's spot on, they didn't. Hudds fans saying he should be gracious in defeat is laughable given some of there post match reactions to defeats especially the LLS win at there place and putting it all down to the ref winning the league for us.

I agree. I thought it was refreshing to read McDermotts comments. They were spot on and honest. Still think he got it wrong on the night, but his comments after were 100% correct.

Sorry im not well versed in the subtleties of cool forum speak.

BMD was his usual honest self in the post match interview. He always calls it as he sees it in my view, but I don't always agree with his assessment. His integrity is beyond question, it's his coaching and preparation of the team I sometimes have issues with.

Totally agree. He wears his heart on his sleeve and tells it as he sees it. I don't think he was dissing Huddersfield and he credited their goal line defence with winning them the match. His comments were aimed at our squad not theirs. This was not a Cas in red hot form defeat, this was a Leeds were utter garbage defeat, was how I read his comment.

Blame that on his lack of rotation he isn't an 80 monute player anymore yet the Coach thinks otherwise.

In it's own way every bit as shambolic as the Leeds defeat at Castleford - only this time Huddersfield were also poor just as Phil Clarke and Brian McDermott were correct to point out.

Out enthused on the night plain and simple. Time for another open E-mail Gary - tough month ahead otherwise.

Rubbish, he has been a penalty machine throughout his career - you would have thought he would have learned by now?

Most on here are happy to turn a blind eye to his short comings because his effort is top notch - whilst it is so are his failings.

The point still remains valid the longer he stays on without a break the more a liability he becomes wrt misssed tackles & penalties.

A blind man on a galloping horse could see that JJB was shot just after half time. Why he was left on the field thereafter is anybody's guess. The same would apply to leaving Burrow and Mullally sitting on the bench until after the game had gone. Whilst I can't really say it would have made much of a difference, the very least the coach can do is throw the flaming dice.

I am confident the Burrow move would have made a difference, and not in hindsight. Despite as poor as we were, we were the dominant team up to the 50 minute mark. Despite being dominant we were not executing and making errors, it needed a change. Quite a few of us were calling that the game was crying out for Burrow to come on within that first 10 minutes of the second half.

Instead, we got a decent try dissalowed, and the players wallowed in their own self pity, and within a short period after the game was beyond us. Suddenly Huddersfield were the dominant team.

I am not as convinced Mullally would have made a difference, other than spelling tired legs, but you would still think fresher legs is better than not.

Far worse for mine tvoc, Cas are quality this year and scoring for fun, Hudds, with the best will in the world, have been poor so far this season



Sod another e-mail. I want him to have a carefully considered recruitment plan with names, ready for next year and the funding ready to execute it

Yeah and I want a Tesla Model X or S P100D Ludicrous with all the trimmings but my bet is we will both be disappointed.

THAT WOULD BE YOU CLOWN

I just posted that on the VT, you posted your earlier comment 12 hours ago. So again who said what you claimed 12 hours ago clown?

So are you blaming the ref or not.

Your comments on the VT say clearly it is the ref.

You also go further- in suggesting that he is biased towards the Giants

Your words damn you

Who said anything 12 hours ago when you claimed clown?

Printer has a problem every time Leeds get beat - and 9 times out of 10 its the ref, usually its James Child but it doesn't matter. The inability to accept the best team won on the night puts into context the vast majority of his posts Leeds don't ever lose because they are beat by a better side.

Where I have said the best team didn't win? I readily admitted Leeds were garbage last night so give your mouth a wipe because you're talking sh*t as per usual.

Where have you said the best team won on the night, when do you ever say Leeds were beaten by a better side? I am not the one talking here