Painful and funny.

thats kind of the opinion i've been having the last few weeks.
Another thursday night game in Hull/Wigan/St Helens or Warrington or a sunny sunday afternoon at Bradford, Batley, Fax etc

I'd say the performances have been far worse than injuries alone can allow for. We've let in more points per game than any year since 1996, and are scoring fewer points per game than since 1980 when adjusting for 4 point tries. In total that equates to the worst win loss ratio Leeds have ever had - we're currently running at 20% for all games vs the previous worst was 27% in 1899-1900. In fact to turn those records around we'll probably need to be in the Middle 8s.

Leeds are the only team with injuries? Hold the back page!!! Then there's Wane saying Wigan have had it worse than all SL teams. All teams get injuries, but as a Wakefield fan has already said, if you're not one of the big boys, it doesn't seem to get noticed.

When Cas are putting a hooker and a prop at half back and still winning, I reckon Leeds and Wigan need to shut up and get on with it.

Wakefield are on their 4th and 5th centre........and I think we can all agree none of them were International quality.

Agree with the last 2 posts, we had a horrendous injury list for the first 5/6 games, not to mention the retirement of Robinson and Ferres leaving us short on numbers, but we just got on with it, ad competed very well against a Wigan team with 10 internationals in it.
Every team has injuries, it's part of the game, to constantly go on about it is just looking for excuses IMO.

Quote ="meast"Agree with the last 2 posts, we had a horrendous injury list for the first 5/6 games, not to mention the retirement of Robinson and Ferres leaving us short on numbers, but we just got on with it, ad competed very well against a Wigan team with 10 internationals in it. Every team has injuries, it's part of the game, to constantly go on about it is just looking for excuses IMO.'" Definitely. Paul Anderson never mentioned it. 5th Feb www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... l-10850217 “We were without several players before the game and now that injury list is stacking up further." 29th Feb www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... l-10962957 “Three-quarters of our salary cap have watched today’s game from the stands,” 1st Mar www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... n-10970673 “I said the other week when we lost our opening game at St Helens that I’d never experienced an injury situation quite like this” 25th Mar www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... n-11091213 “There are obviously reasons why we’ve suffered a start like this. I’ve never known an injury situation quite like it." That's from only half of the first page of Google results for "Paul Anderson Huddersfield Injuries"

Quote ="meast"Agree with the last 2 posts, we had a horrendous injury list for the first 5/6 games, not to mention the retirement of Robinson and Ferres leaving us short on numbers, but we just got on with it, ad competed very well against a Wigan team with 10 internationals in it. Every team has injuries, it's part of the game, to constantly go on about it is just looking for excuses IMO.'" Definitely. Paul Anderson never mentioned it. 5th Feb www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... l-10850217 “We were without several players before the game and now that injury list is stacking up further." 29th Feb www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... l-10962957 “Three-quarters of our salary cap have watched today’s game from the stands,” 1st Mar www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... n-10970673 “I said the other week when we lost our opening game at St Helens that I’d never experienced an injury situation quite like this” 25th Mar www.examiner.co.uk/sport/rugby-l ... n-11091213 “There are obviously reasons why we’ve suffered a start like this. I’ve never known an injury situation quite like it." That's from only half of the first page of Google results for "Paul Anderson Huddersfield Injuries"

Fair enough, but McDermott and Wane mention it every week regardless of the result.

Haha

Hahaaha

Injuries don't and can't excuse regular dire performances over the course of half a season.

Certainly can't blame injuries for Watkins' form (among others, clearly)

top handling errors in the league currently.

I thought the dip would come sooner.
They had a period of the perfect mix of great young and old players and kept it going for a good few years. It was never going to last forever.
Same thing happened to saints. Luckily never quite as extreme, but with the troops back and nothing to lose leeds could win a lot of the remaining games.

Generally I think the quality of super league is going down. No increase in salary cap and dire marketing rugby league in the UK cannot be very attractive to young sportsmen with any ambition.

"Form" over the last five games. The order of the teams is the same order the table would be in right now if the season started five games ago (and there'd been no points deductions).

Heh I'd love that to be the final league positions

That'd be funny. Not sure it's possible at this point though. Widnes might be able to fall that far but I don't think Wigan can.

Hmmm. I will figure out how to look into that.

My feeling about the current position Leeds are in, is exactly the same as the fans of Leeds and any other club would be, if we, Wigan were in the same position...

I thought that all the red circles for Widnes related to Denis Betts' rising blood pressure.
He seemed to need to let off a bit of steam after their last league game



It does make interesting reading though and it makes Salford's exit from the cup even more of a surprise

Can't argue with that really.

not that we have been



















at Wigan for a few years though

More like your own blood pressure when it comes to Betts and his 1 and only ever outburst about a referee which as seeing as Cobb has been stood down for the past 2 weeks seems to have been proven correct that it was a truly shocking refereeing performance that cost Widnes the 2 points.
Think Wakefield should get their own house in order before you come on here spouting off about other clubs and their coaches and players.

Kind Regards

Ftr Cobb wasn't reffing the week after because he was involved with the anniversary of Chernobyl, but hey don't let that get in the way of your theory.

As for Wakefield's house, do tell.

Nice to see someone with a sense of humour....

I would say that all RL fans will be very shocked to see where Leeds are currently. Last years retirees would have affected things around the club, big name, big game players leaving can make a massive difference... Look back to when Andy Farrell left us, you lose more that the player, you lose the effect they have on others, and Andy Farrell often dragged us to wins we should not have got... i said before the season started that it would be interesting to see what happened at Leeds this season, i'm sure nobody would have predicted the present situation.... Onward and upwards...

yes you are right only problem is the anniversary of chernobyl was 2 weeks before so he would have been there when no one else was but as allways with cobb he never gets anything right