Sam didn't have as bad a game as that buffoon in the middle. Can't believe at some of the posts on here about Sam. you should be looking at the team that was picked. You have a few injuries in very important places and yesterday you looked a very unbalanced team with Sean at standoff. Love Sean to bits and would be in any star team of mine but he isn't a stand off. You will have Matty for the rest of your games and I think you will win the GF this year.

The lad cost us all 3 of the first tries IMO.



Won't get pelters from me though after getting us out of so many holes over the years.

We move on...

I was unsure about the 40/20 as the pitch did not have it's full compliment of markings, i.e. every ten metres, why was this?

For what ever reason Tomkins watched the ball go over the touchline he had no 20 metre line to refer to.

That's no excuse I'm afraid, he should have been aware of where the ball was being kicked from - that's just basic, basic stuff.



As others have said though, it was the team who lost the game. Yes he made mistakes that led to tries, but so did plenty of others.

Sam offers and produces some of the best rugby seen, ever.



Gelling produces what ?



George must be tearing his hair out.



It's noticeable that our previously strong left side has been poor since Gelling was put out on the wing when he isn't even a winger.



Come back Pat, soon !

On the 40-20 isn't the ref supposed to say whether it is inside or outside? I thought Sam was looking at the idiot in the middle for guidance.

If you mean on the pitch itself its because its a multi-sport stadium just like DW we don't put the metre marks on the pitch. So Sam can have no excuse as his home pitch is marked out the same

We should be getting behind the team not slagging individuals off, yes we didn't play our best, but you have got to give Leeds a lot of credit I thought Brian McD came with a game plan, starve us of field position, take us on up front make as few errors in own half as possible, and kick deep pinning us back and starting sets in our own 20, and lets be honest his players executed that plan very well. Yes we made mistakes and gifted them 4 tries with mistakes in our own 20, but we still pressed them and made a great game of it scoring some good tries from inside our half. Sinfields kicking was the difference, we were not allowed any decent, consistent field position and had to launch most of our attacks inside our own half.

Beaten by the better side on the day imho.

I think you are being really kind to Brian Mc and Leeds here Bear. IF Sam had caught the bomb or didn't let the 40/20 go it would have been a different game. However they did and we were left chasing the game this caused us not to play our natural game and Leeds made good of that. I said on another thread that the way we played Leeds should have put 50 points on us however with a bit more luck in attack (the Hughes knock on with about 10 minutes left a prime example) we could have won this match.

I'm surprised you havent picked up on Lima...

I think their game plan was to start really well as they knew if they could contain our onslaught then they had a chance.

No good blaming the ref for that one, he had to check with the VR himself.