Yes, I thought it was a great game, our boys played well, expected to get thrashed so to bring it back from 0-16 down and only lose at the death was a great effort.



You needed to beat us sometime on our patch

Again what a complete tool

Unbelievable...I agree. In fairness to Leeds their defence was fantastic especially with just 15 men (I was even pleased with Ablett at enforced centre)....and the conditions made the game something of a lottery.



However, we still seem mainly clueless and/or reckless in attack.

Out of the last 10 games at your place it's 6-4 to Leeds.



HTH

his kicking game ain't the best even when we're firing.

We were 40 metres out with one tackle remaining, in the wet. it may not have been the most calculated decision, but there was no guarantee at all that we'd have managed a dropgoal from the position we were in.

Actually we were almost on the 20 and it was tackle 3 I believe. One drive up the middle against a still retreating Cas defensive line and then a drop from 25 out slap in front should have been a no brainer.

me too

Correct. From the tap restart Smith took it up, tackle one. Webb, Lauitiiti, Senior and McGuire moved it to Hall, tackle two. Buderus to McGuire and the rest is history.



The textbook play from tackle two was to drive towards the posts on tackle three and then take the one pointer on tackle four, five or six whenever a clear opportunity arose.



What McGuire did was wrong, no wonder he was jumping around when Sinfield slotted the two.

Watched it again on the SLS. You're both right, the play was much dafter than I first thought. In fairness to McGuire he perhaps did not know how much time was left on the clock. What the hell was (the otherwise outstanding IMO) Buderus doing going blind at that stage? There was only McGuire out there.

You'll note I didn't pick you up on it.





When McGuire kicked forward the clock read 79:45, when Shenton picked it up the clock read 79:51, when the penalty was awarded and Leeds elected to take the two the clock stopped at 79:57.



Shenton should have taken a step back and let McGuire attempt to regather before tackling him. Leeds would have had one play the ball maximum to win the game. Nice to see Shenton winning games for Leeds without the need to actually have him on the books.

To be fair to McGuire, he wouldn't have been expecting to get the ball wide on the left, but he did.



Had he have driven it in, we'd have been well off centre, with little time left for a drive and a drop goal.



He did the right thing in getting more central, and probably knew there was only second left. Not enough time for 2 more tackles, and the act of getting central resulted in lost yards. Not sure we'd have got another tackle in in that time.



Textbook wise it was the wrong option, and I thought so at the time, but all that matters is that we got the 2 points from a tough game.