It’d be interesting to get the honest opinions of players who spent parts of their careers at bigger and smaller clubs.

I don’t want McGuire to speak to refs like he did at Leeds now he’s with us. To do otherwise would be daft and naive, imo. Peacock’s incredulity at Hicks awarding an iffy and crucial drop goal to Hudds a couple of years ago felt like it reflected on his previous experience with dominant teams as much as the decision itself.
Fair enough, he suffered Chris Joynt’s voluntary tackle, but that was against St Helens.

Alex Ferguson pretty much acknowledged he used his own and Manchester United’s pre-eminence to influence refs. There’s no grand conspiracy, but refs are human and humans are suggestible.

I’m sure Hull KR got their share back in the 1980s.

Every team has players who get in the refs face and speak out of turn, again it’s one of those things were to some only the likes of Leeds and Wigan players do it when it’s every team in reality.

That a reaction that Peacock had in a HKR shirt can still be blamed at Leeds’s door show the predetermined mindset when it comes to a Leeds or a Wigan when it comes to decisions/penalties/behaviour.

I agree with the first part of your post.

However, why would you, or anyone question that any players behavior at a previous club, particularly a senior pro like Peacock, shouldn't be attributable to their time at their previous club? It's more than likely why the player was offered a new role and the phrase 'old dogs new tricks' springs to mind and applies to both positive and negative traits

Leeds 28 London 6 london have had 5 penalties leeds gave had none.
Its a conspiracy.

If Leeds have conceded five penalties, I assume that means at least 5 fatalities in the London team - no wonder the Broncos are struggling!

Yep, and Leeds felt sorry for them with 5 dead players so let them score 5 unanswered try's to let them feel better.

Leeds scored eight tries, London scored seven. Close win for Leeds.

ask Widnes if they'd take a narrow win

But London were clearly much better than Widnes. How much better than London was Leeds?

If Jarrod Sammut had been kicking well it would have been Lonfon 42- Leeds 48.

And Leeds would have still won, all that really matters in this ridiculous middle 8s

and Leeds would still have won. 2 points is all that counts.
but you know that sir Kevin

And if Leeds’ had kept their foot on the gas in the last 20 mins it could’ve 60/70-10.

48-10 to Leeds after 60 mins isn’t a close game. Leeds put the cue on the rack which is disappointing from a fan POV but it was never a close game despite the score line being narrowed in the final quarter.

surely you mean leeds dropped the cue and were too knakked to pick it back up

been an issue all year the last 20 minutes

Not all year, won early games in the last 20 vs HKR and Saints and almost cane back vs Cas at Elland Road from a big deficit barring one more conversion. Slipped as the year went on the team got more and more tired from the early efforts they put it with too many missing.

Well done Leeds. Beaten two lesser fancied championship sides with you having home advantage against the better of the two. You're obviously awesome.

The next round will be the start of your real test. I'm not stating we'll win in the slightest, but you know, maybe we will.

And if I said we were awesome you’d have a point but you’ve just read what you’ve wanted to read. It was a reply to someone saying it was a close game and adding a “if only” then it’d be closer sceneario.

You are right that the biggest tests start now for us and you might well win. If I’d have said opposite to that and claimed we were awesome your reply to what I wrote might make sense.

What was the attendance in the end

3500

Was that more than Salford got for their home game against Widnes?

Fake news

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I was at the game and it was well attended but not morel than 2,500 there is my guesstimate. I expect the record gate for the ground will be smashed in 2 weeks time when the union lot host London Irish...but I reckon that was the best gate for a league match featuring the Broncos since we went down.....

You got there quick from NZ

36 hour flight is hardly quick....