Disappointing really, such a great start, but it was always going to be hard with 14 fit players in that heat, especially losing our best prop after 3 seconds! We competed well for 50 mins but ultimately ran out of players. Ninth now - I have a terrible feeling that it's going to be hard to get out of here now. Credit to the boys for the effort today, but ultimately undone by the better team on the day. Well, in fact by one player. Outstanding by Macguire, we made it easy for a couple though!

And the blindness to forward passes is really beginning to p!$$ me off now. If it's not going to be enforced then just do away with the rule. If human eyes don't work then is there really no technology that can see that a ball is travelling 2 metres forward? It's getting silly now.

And just as we get a few players back - we lose three more. Just par for the course really.

And it will be interesting to see how many matches Webb gets for his elbow in Kearney's face. Two matches has been the standard all season, one for an early plea. So let's wait and see....

Just not good enough unfortunately, Leeds never even got out of first gear either. Losing the players didn't help, but stupid decision making and errors cost us a lot more.

Gale unfortunately is not turning into the player I had hoped as well, still fairly early days I guess but I am unimpressed.

I've got to the point now when I'm surprised if a forward pass is spotted. Then again even when they use the video referee they still manage to get it wrong, our third try was a very dubious decision.

Yes. I have to agree. Ganson was unusually genorous tonight.
Weird that Thaler was unfit to ref us yet ok to do the game after.

I'm not too disappointed. I thought we competed with them toe-to-toe for about 60 minutes, but were undone by lack of numbers together with an inability to turn pressure into points.

That spell when we had them pinned on their line for about ten minutes in the second half, and then for them to go downfield and score, well - that really killed us didn't it? We really needed to post s try at the stage to pull it back to 24-24. Anything could have happened from there...

With everything thats been going off the field this season, all we can really demand is 100% effort and I feel that we're getting that.

But we need to be sure to beat Castleford now

Why were we trying to offload the ball in impossible positions ?
Hope Diskin is ok, we look a far better team with him on the pitch.

Wasn't it Silverwood who was injured? And they just shuffled the refs around? All very confusing!

It appears we have to try to score on every play! I think because of the lack of creation in attack players are forcing things, as you say normally in impossible positions.

Yes, missed Disko big time.

How unprofessional

Mmmm -how do you know they are a BB employee?

Didn't think the boys played bad at all, Had leeds pushed back for most of the game, just couldn't finish it off. Leeds' defence was awesome today.
The fact that we picked up 3 more injuries didn't help matters either, just hope Disko and Koppy aren't out for too long.
Finally....I'm one of potters biggest admirers, but can't understand why he picked Walker( back from injury, hardly any game time ) and left out Addy, who IMO has been playing well in numerous positions all season.

I thought we were poor and the injuries didn't help. I agree Gale was disappointing but he's just coming back from injury. I don't think he looks fit tbh.

Second half was a real disappointment. I know the heat must have taken its toll with players going off, but I thought we lacked ideas in attack - at times it looked like they were just trying to fall over the line. Defence wasn't good either but all the magic weekend games seem to be high scoring.

My daughter works with her on match day

Unfortunately once again our attack let us down a little today. We've struggled to put big scores on teams all season bar a couple of games. We had a long spell down in the Leeds end but still failed to cross the line. Gale had a bit of a nightmare today and we just looked lost for ideas near their line.

The injuries were also a huge blow to our chances, to lose a player with the first carry and then 2 further players during the game in those conditions was a killer.

Still plenty of work to do to finish in the 8, 1 point from from the last 2 games has eroded the little bit of breathing space we had and we're now out of the play off spots. With Cas, Saints and Wakey up next.. We need to aim for at least 2 wins IMO.

Think Gale directs play quite well but theres just nobody outside him to make that killer pass to the rampaging back rower or a centre in space. We need a really good stand off.

The return of Gale has also had a massive impact on the performances of Jefferies. Once Sammuts back drop Gale.

Looking at the table if we beat Castleford which I think we can and the results go our way wigan beat leeds, hull fc beat saints and wire beat kr then we could move up to 6th above them, then we have saints the week after that.

Jeffries is the same player he has always been. He plays well for a few games then goes missing. He's been in super league for nearly a decade and has never looked consistent enough to be a decent half back and at this stage of his career it's unlikely that he will ever find the consistency needed.

It was an ok performance. Don't think Leeds had to play well at all really to win it.

Gale is looking a real disappointment but i get he's coming back from injury.

Not much else to say about it. A typical Leeds/Bradford game from the past few seasons. We probably perform better than expected but they have too much class and beat us with a few big plays ( though i know we won the 2 before today). Burrow always seems to do it too us.

Gale wasn't the worst of our players!

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