Gouldens try was good, the ball was knocked forward by a cats hand the video shows it clearly - well the DVD does - and the ref was only feet away.

Fair enough Fred - I was just going from what my (slightly less than 20/20) eyes saw.

Still don't think he cost us the game - we did create enough chances/half chances to win it. (deservedly IMO)

Alan, there was only 6 points in it, they were awarded a try (converted) wherby evidence suggests it was dubious to say the least. I cannot see how this potentially did not cost us a chance of a golden point game unless there were other decisions which were incorrect leading to our points or incorrect in chalking of any of their scores.

I take your point about the times when we could have been a little more clinical but there were times when they could have been more linical and scored, but on both accounts neither team scored.

Childs cost us the opportunity of a golden point game and these days I do not blame the referee for our misfortunes when once upon a time it was always the refs faul t

Finally getting round to watching the game again and Catalans' first try in the second half was never grounded in the memory of man. Scandal.

Having watched the game again, the bounced try was exactly that a bounce.Some of Childs calls were pure guess work IMO.

Anyone else notice how long McGilvray was held back for after dropping the intercept in the lead up to their last try? Still none the wiser as to how the ball went flying forward when Blanch was tackled.

Me neither but I assume he must have kicked it.Re Deano being held back 'about 2 seconds in my view.

just a question (not a criticism) - what do you Leythers think about the attendance of 2237 ?

seems a bit low for me for a visiting SL side ?

I thought most Leythers were expecting 3000+ ?

No away fans.

...and a split gate

Thats what I thought!!

so during the 2005 SL season half the fans who attended were visiting fans ?

assuming an average of about 5000 ish,that is

TBH the less said about the att the better but i did have a laugh when they annouced it.

At the time, it appeared that Blanch's inside pass hit a Leigh player and bounced towards our line. A Leigh player (Govin?) dived on the ball, but only succeeeded in knocking it even further towards our line, and Henderson scored. I thought that was a legitimate, if lucky, try. I believe Fred has already confirmed that he thought it was a 'good' try, too.

I dont think thats a bad crowd considering theres no complimentary tickets for the cup games and no season ticket holders can get in apart from SL ones, so like i say no season ticket holders got in for free, so not bad at all.

Fax were hoping for a sell out today but i think we will sell about 2K tickets and Bradford cant give away 3K tickets to their 10K+ season ticket holders. Oh the magic of the cup.

Let it go San, the scars of last year seem so deep seated you need help. Oh and not many SL teams brought 2500 to HP in 2005, but thats all history now.

I'd say only one team did-Warrington.

Saints and Wigan managed it as well.

Don't think I'm the only one who was a little surprised at how low the announced crowd was as I can't think of any occasions where either stand has seemed busier (my rule of thumb is how far people spread out in the West, and it was busy right up to the try line at the North end).

How did it look on Blip? I havn't had chance to watch it again yet.

I go off how many stand behind sticks and there seemed more than usual but I could be wrong in fact I'm sure I am

Another thing that annoyed the hell out of me was when Higson was tackled in 1st half and the Cats player took an age to get off ,one of them crawled all over him literally ,then not long after he got Leigh for holding down ,unbelievable !!!!

Well if the noise in the North Stand, [and the West to be honest as they joined in with the singing was anything to go off there were more than that on, the atmostphere was electric, well done to all.

I think we all know there was more than announced on

hopefully at least,they don't 'milk' the attendance figures like TO13 ? ......it's becoming embarassing nowadays......

as I said Demon,my comments were not intended as a wind-up or criticism - just an honest question ie: if the SL crowds averaged 5K where have the fans gone ?
Sounds as though you have the best team in years but with the same or lower crowds ,so what's happening ?

are on the up now to be honest, may be wrong though.