Some people are going OTT with this. It's Leeds at their home ground, yes we almost one, but again it's Leeds, and they were desperate which IMO makes them even more difficult to bear. However I'm glad we managed to post 40 points on the Champions, and I'll agree with Elston and Glover's comments.

Pretty much agree with all comments here, definitely the one that got away.
The game was lost in the first half where we basically dominated the game and yet we managed to go in at ht level.
Mathers had an absolute mare of a game (apart from the touchline tackle just before HT) but to dominate possesion and territory so much and still allow them to score 4 tries was awful.

The one positive from the game was our attack and we looked dangerous with ball in hand.
Tackle bags out ready for bradford and learn to put pressure on our last tackle kicks, gutted

Key issues

I dont think we gave a penalty away in the first 30 odd minutes then Silverwood caned us from the 'knock on' from Leeds on the halfway line when he penalised us for off side.

Giving possession up after we took the lead 30 24 Leeds dominated and our handling under pressure was poor.

The decision to give Leeds the scrum and then into a penalty that put us 8 points behind

Bad luck two kicks that reulted in open play for Leeds to score 12 points, the knock onleading to their gift of 6 points in the first half, the pass from Ali that went to ground and the forward pass that never was to Fox.

I really enjoyed it last night and although gutted we lost I would watch a game like every day of the week.

On another day 40 points would have been more than enough to secure victory not a problem. However, them whinos will know that they've been in a game this morning. As for us, lets take our frustration out on Bradford on Sunday as we have some unfinished business with them, I still haven't forgotten about their phantom try that they scored against us at Belle Vue earlier this season (the one Brett Kearney "scored" when he was clearly held up and when did eventually ground the ball, he wasn't evenbin the in goal area, never mind on the tryline. Yet that numbskull video ref Ian Smith called that a try?!?!?!). That incident sullied the game and changed it in Bradford's favour. Listen Bradford, you're only chance of beating us this Sunday is if either your best mate Ian Smith is reffing or if the ref happens to be Thierry "Seven Tackles" Aliabert. This is payback time!!!!!

It was a missed opportunity, but some of the dummy-spitting on here is totally irrational.

We went 12 down from soft, breakaway tries but turned it around; we more than matched Leeds in the forwards and our backs were creative, showed flair and made some excellent decisions. But for a couple of keystone cops moments and some ridiculously one-eyed referreeing decisions, we'd have come away with the spoils and Brian Mac would be facing a very tough day indeed.

I'm disappointed, but the statement quoted above is ridiculous.

Think we twice had a penalty near posts where we should have taken 2 and chose to run the ball and dropped it. If we had kicked those the last try would have levelled the game giving Sykes a chance to pinch it.

Ah well onward we go that's the last post from me dwelling on this topic.

This.

Apologies - not sure what happened but this wasn't the full posting I wrote/thought I had sent late last night.

I'll retract and rewrite shortly

As stated not sure what happened to the post I wrote - I'll re write to explain my frustration shortly.

i only recall one opportunity early in the second half and we ended up scoring through Trout.
Our decisions not to take the 2 have been 100% correct in recent weeks, I just don't understand the fascination with taking the 2 all the time, its old hat, except maybe in bad conditions where point are at a premium. Points were not at a premium last night.

Tend to agree, Leeds were there for the taking and the players seemed confident to take them on.

Can't recall too many opportunities to take the two tbf....

There's nowt like a Wakey board for a bit of sackcloth and ashes.



You've just won 3 on the bounce.....that's 3 big steps forward. You may have missed out on the points last night, but you put 40 on the champions in their home midden. Not so much as a step backwards more of a small one sideways FFS. And there's a good chance to turn over the Bulls next as well.

Progress, is one game at a time People..... so about Prince William's Coronation you could be giving us a fright!

Less of the false sympathy Billy, you know that you got out of jail last night (especially in the first half.
The upset is because we didn't beat a very poor Rhinos side.

There is some pleaseure however in seeing the Rhinos crown slip down over your eyes and allow you to get battered in all but the final score.
You still have to come and play in our yard though, so we may yet have the last laugh

Defo a lost 2 points couldnt get to the game listned on the net and just watched on Rhinos site.3 trys gifted through poor tackles Mathers did have a brain fart but lets not forget hes been one of our best players so far.Just out of interest heres points against the rhinos at home highest first
Wigan 50
Wakey 40
Saints 31
Hudds 22
Catalan 18
Wolves 18
HKR 16
Manly 12
London 10

Its one that got away but something to work on and at least now Sykes is at half back we can score trys and plenty of them.

We're in lofty company there, although most of them had doubled up after the weekend.
I'm still totally gutted

Just as gutted here in Outwood mate but would have been well happy getting at least close 6 weeks ago.

Just watched the highlights, some of the tries conceded were simply laughable and if had been Trinity who had doubled up it would at least been understandable. The same mistakes and weak defence which have haunted the team over the last few weeks keep occurring with no signs of improving.

On the plus side the attack looked more effective and ruthless when presented with an opportunity to score, although how much that could be attributed to fatigue from Leeds is open tp debate.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching our attack tonight, the structure, depth and dummy runners made it troublesome for Leeds to defend. We looked like scoring on every attack but as you rightly point out you must take fatigue and motivation into account as Leeds never looked like they wanted to be there.

In the same respect, whilst our attack was sublime, our defence was embarassing at times. Lets just hope it gets fixed pretty sharp as it's letting the team down

Should be a good game. The bulls need to win for the 8... they also have a point to prove after the Saints game & seem to stick together whenever we have `bad news`. I wouldnt have thought it'd be a walk in the park for either side though. Ref is Robert Hicks BTW.. & The referee in which we've won more with is Ben Thaler this season.. Non of the above

Kyle Amor and Andy Raleigh were the best forwards on the pitch by a country mile; Paul Aiton was an absolute machine - again; Tim Smith was brilliant.

All very positive signs - must hit the tackle bags this week though and fix up our leaky defence; Hardaker and BJB are hard to stop in broken field, but the Ablett try was unforgivable.

Mr Silverwood is far too easily influenced by Sinfield and the Southstand; his decisions were laughable at times, particularly the forward pass that never was and the 'knock-on' that if true, would have required the reflexes of a rattlesnake for that ball to be played at.

Bring on The Dulls - I fancy us for this one.

I know the circumstances of this game were very much in our favour but you have to be realistic and respect Leeds for fielding a full-strength outfit. Remember their guys won the Grand Final last year mainly through spirit, determination and Rob Burrow so they were not going to lie down especially after their recent run. You'd also have to admit that in terms of power and the pace at which they play the game we would normally not be able to live with them.

So let's give plenty of praise to our team who fought hard throughout, created more than I've seen offensively for a LONG TIME and perhaps didn't get the refereeing "rub of the green" on the night especially with that late, strange but crucial penalty which Sinfield kicked. Yes, we need to improve defensively as at least four of their tries were too easily conceded but yet again we should take the positives: Smith, very creative; Aiton, our man of steel; promising performances by the youngsters, Trout and Walshaw; Fox and Cockayne always very lively; also great to see Ollie Wilkes notch his bi-annual try!

Good support too! (Rhinos fans clapped us at the end!) I've had far worse Monday nights certainly!

Great game to watch but got to say im very disappointed coming away with a defeat. They have some superb individuals but last night they were there for the taking and we blew it. Not blaming the ref at all if we didnt make individual errors we'd have won. For me the turning point was when Mathers made a massive howler and let JJB in. He made a similar error last week too, fortunately that didnt lead to a try. Maybe he should spend less time on twitter and practice defending grubber kicks

Watched the highlights some stuff was criminal. Ali let both Hardaker and BJB walk past him if he'd been at jogging pace he would have got an hand on either one of them. Mathers fumble was quite hilarious. Ablett try was school boy like (all like chickens going one way). Ben Cockayne really needs to work on his positional play at times he's in no mans land.

I wasn't there but it doesn't sound like I need to be, that's the story of our season. I have been criticised on here for being negative but the same idiotic errors over and over again, repeated match after match, shows systemic disease to me. Yes, the comeback Vs Hull was very exciting but the mess we found ourselves in, in that game was all of our own doing. Nothing will change whilst Mr Agar is in charge, I am positive of this

17 matches down, absolutely zero sign of it yet; some lovely passing and support at times, I hear, packed full of errors...every match this season except London at home, which is ironic considering the conditions. That was the dull yet solitary 80 mins professional performance this season.