Full credit to Wire, they fully deserved the win, but why when Silverwood has officiated am I left with a bad taste in the mouth. Two very bad calls at bad times, I was on high at Wembley, he was taking Leeds back 12 to 15 metres at each set, Warrington 10, why? I know a lot of people hate Leeds but why did the RFL let this known Leeds hater have the match? I woud even have preferred GANSON and he is from Stains.

give over, Leeds lost because of their own poor play and Warrington's excellent play, not through anything Silverwood did.

Welcome to the forum. Here we tend not to try point the finger at the ref, especially when the players & coach were at fault.

Silverwood is awful but he didnt miss tackles, drop the ball or step aside to watch Wire score easy tries! We didnt play to our ability and Warrington were by far the better team on the day.They fully deserved to win that match. I cant understand why the Leeds team were trying to push up the middle when A, we didnt have a real prop forward on the field and B, Warringtons pack is far bigger than ours! Foolish play! I have to say, it may be interesting after next year when McDermott takes over, im not convinced of our currebt style of play, it doesnt suit our players one bit!

Correct but Silverwood is a disgrace. Went to screen when Leeds scored but failed on 2 occasions to do so when Warrington did and they were 50/50 calls.

You're right, silverwood was a disgrace. How he missed the forward pass for smiths try is beyond belief. And baileys attack to the head. I think 30 - 0 would have been a truer reflection.

Which one's could he have gone to the screen for?

For me Silverwood got the forward pass to Hall wrong at 8-0 down which we would quite possibly have scored from but the biggest decision he cocked up on was Atkins second try, Riley was clearly offside when it came off Mathers backside and going in at 14-0 down was a mountain to climb.
That said Warrington were awesome on the day, their defense looked impenetrable and I thought they were going to nil us and their kicking game put ours to shame. All the Warrington players played well, you couldn't pick out any of their players that weren't on top of their game, Briers, Mathers, Atkins, Hicks had a MOM performance and their forwards totally bossed ours whereas there were many Leeds players who didn't turn up.
Well done Warrington, time will tell whether we can pick ourselves up from this weekend but at the moment it doesn't look good

But Silverwood could not have gone to the screen for either of them and I still maintain that 2 Leeds players took themselves out of the game by running past the aerial challenge showing no intuition as to what may happen, had they been clued in Riley wouldn't have gone 10 yards

How can someone be accused of missing something that didn't happen?

I'm sorry if the forward pass rule is too complex for you to understand but there was no forward pass from McGuire to Smith for the solitary Leeds try.

Sorry, my mistake. I forgot that no anti-Leeds comments can be made on this site. Silverwood was to blame for all Warrington's tries, all the tackles Leeds missed, all the dropped balls and after thinking about it, I think 6-0 Leeds would have been a much fairer scoreline.

Typical Leeds arrgoance.

Typical small town v big city bitterness syndrome.

Enjoy yr championship derbies getting spanked by Fev in 2012.

Wow, as over the top reactions to a specific comment on a single incident go that has to be right up there. Congratulations.

Are we going to discuss what constitutes a forward pass now or not?

You’ve obviously forgot that anti-Leeds comments will be contested on here.

To argue that Smith's try wasn't a forward pass is arrogant. Or stupid.

He cant help it. It is a strange inbred phenomenon called 'Pit village mentality' peculiar to some areas of West yorkshire, usually concentrated around areas with a WF post code.

You can make as many anti-Leeds comments as you like, as long as you can justify them, posts like the one above just present you as a bitter and jealous person.

If you want to be taken sensibly instead of being viewed as a silly little girl then expect your views to be challenged and be prepared to back them up instead of wimpering and whining like a slapped puppy.

First of all you seem to be more arrogant than the Leeds fans that you accuse of been arrogant. One of our more observant Rhinos fans offered you a discussion on whenever it was a forward pass or not and you just go and dismiss him as stupid.

If anyone is stupid it could be you, unless you’re hiding wisdom that you haven’t expressed on these boards yet.

The ball left McGuire's hands flat, he travelled forward just as the ball did (as the laws of physics dictated it would) and McGuire was still in front of the ball when Smith collected it.

It's allowed within the laws and within the referee's interpretation of the laws.

It therefore wasn't a forward pass.

You concede 30 points, get totally outclassed and then start a thread slating the referee, yet your only score came from something the referee the missed? Does no-one else see the irony of this? It's either arrogance or thick. I think your thick.

Take a break.

We nurtured some of the best trolls on RLFans on this forum and frankly your attempts are an insult to us, come back when you get promoted from the Unibond League of Trolls.

Calm down fella. You're seriously undermining your own argument here.

I’m not been funny but Leeds have lost two major finals with Silverwood been the referee. Whilst I don’t think he was all that bad yesterday, I feel that the club should do all that it can to make sure that if Leeds get to the grand final he’s not the referee.

I hope the club and the players concentrate on where the game was lost rather than blaming the referee. These problems have been there all season and with the odd exception don't appear to be being addressed.

a second time Mr Silverwood left the field with a big grin on his face at a neutral venue for the rhinos leaves a bad taste for me, (the offside was something i spotted in real time)
i think it is probably a case of the referee thinking he could use the video to check, but the tackle inbetween the offside and the try stops that, it happens too often both this way and the other way too (when a referee calls play on after seeing an incident and then goes to the video for it as a try is scored just to check)