This game is only at half time but this guy is an imbarresment to RL.

I'm not usually one to slate refs but two terrible decisions have led to the only 2 try's for leeds

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Agreed but take a look at Saints performance. Can't tackle, and as always , loosing possession

Leeds 1st try without the assistance on the ref

Silverwood didnt miss all the tackles and drop all the ball we did. No excuses Leeds deserved it , as Wigan did last week as Widnes did on monday.

Completely agree.

I bet he made less errors than either of the two teams today. As referee performances go he was OK.

With any game with Silverwood as the ref, the game is rugged and slow. He just let's everything go at the ruck.

That Moon penalty was bizarre. So crucial too at that stage.

Have a look at the video again,Swift's try came from a 20 meter tap that should have been a drop out after Wilkin ran from the field of play and took the bomb out of play.

I thought the ref was ok. I was at the game but I've been told by mates that Roby did touch the ball that resulted in a drop out and also the Tommy one was correct.

The blame is on the players. They miss the tackles, they drop the ball, they make the wrong calls.

I watched the game on TV, as I was reffing myself when it was on live. Silverwood had a good game. Leeds had a good game. Saints didn't.

Simple as that, really. This thread should be locked before people embarrass themselves.

Agreed!

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Saints will still be GF contenders without a doubt this season without a doubt

If we are going to lock threads to stop people embarrassing themselves. Well there goes most of the threads.

I believe the phrase is control your controllables.

I'll probably get rounded on by some on here. But I thought that we were in that at times today. But the amount of cheap ball we gave up told in the end.

We have field position. We had possession. But just daft stuff, not even pressurized mistakes.

Saints had a bad ref? Quelle Suprise

Having just watched the match back (I must be mad) I think you'll find we had no ball and no territory.

It was something like 39% of ball we had.

We had enough. But we still coughed it up when we were in striking range

I don't think 39% is enough and the territory stat ( I can't remember) was heavily in Leeds favour also.

Having watched it back, we were absolutely slaughtered. They made 50-60 metres per set consistently and when they didn't their kicking was either superb or hoofed dead, where we were kicking from inside our 40 more often than not. We never really escaped from that bar the couple of penalties before the Jones try. Leeds made easy metres, completed sets and had the composure to exploit our failures to number up defensively.

What really disappointed me was the execution on the few occasions we did get sets in Leeds's 20. We consistently wasted three tackles with really lazy passes to the first man and never had the patience to apply any pressure.

Today was as bad as it comes performance wise. We were never in the game.

From minute one to minute eighty we wasn't in it. Agreed!

I've only seen it on TV and my opinion is that we got a few bad calls from the ref which if they'd gone our way would have kept us in it. But, and it's a big but, leeds were much better than us in all departments. They looked like a team for a start, and a team that really wanted to win. We looked disjointed, very poor line speed again, poor kicking and last tackle plays again.

I don't know where this idea of saints to win everything came from, presumably because we were top of the league after the first few games, but personally I think we've only played well twice, against leeds and against wire. Now we look like we could be missing two of our most influential players again for a while.

Spot on Saddened. People can try and blame Silverwood as much as they like but the truth is Leeds were much, much better and if the ref had given Saints everything, they would still have lost.

Still think our defence is the bees knees?

I don't blame the ref one bit.

Leeds was better on the day, they are better team than us. Simple as that.