No Leeds where miles better, but some of the decisions helped the momentum swing in Leeds favor...

Not sure why nobody has mentioned how poor M Monaghan was. If Higham wasn't playing as good as he is we would be screwed.

Ive got a feeling a Riley scapegoat thread will appear somewhere and he did make a poor tackle attempt on Watkins..

But Ratchford kicked poorly and we made stupid errors and vital times all in all the first half was hideous..

I still think Mick Monas looks terribly off the pace and Benny Westwood isn't at his aggresive best either...



As for the Commentary team Hemmings and Stevo should just get themselves in the South Stand and chant Yorkshire...!

The James Child show !

Well I did and I wasn't even there.Leeds played quite well aparrently.

Looks like time is now running out for this wire team.

Leeds fans should be the last people writing teams off, after the last 2 years...

Ah but that is Leeds very special team.It takes one to do that.This Tony Smiths Wire reminds me of Tony Smiths Leeds 2006

Recently we've looked like an average, 5-8 placed, Play-off standard side.



Tonight our goal like defending was unacceptable, our forwards didn't have any control in the ruck with or without the ball, our execution with ball in hand was unacceptable, our players looked out of shape and tired/weak, our kicking game was unacceptable...this isn't the standard that a Simon Moran/Tony Smith era Wire side plays at. Tony and Willy Poaching will be saying exactly that to everyone this coming week.



Yet we only lost by six points and we gifted Leeds three of their tries through some of the softest defending you'll ever see in Super League. We only lost by six points by a team that will likely finish first or second in the table this season.



This could just be poor form and all we need to do is build slowly as the season progresses and win four games at the end of the season. That's all we need to do. We are capable of winning four games in a row, so we just need to make sure we're ready to do so come September.

Briers has announced he will be back within the next few weeks so there is at least one positive to take from tonight!!

Couldn't give a stiff one, about the ref's performance, as I've alluded to in the ref for Sunday's game thread, they're all 5h1te, and tonight's proved my point.



What we need to look at, is some of our players' "performances"



Cooper. Games just seem to pass him by. A passenger tonight, with elements of crap thrown in for good measure. Time to go to Salford. You've had your chance, you've not kicked on from your early career performances. Not good enough as a squad player.



Westwood just seems flat atm. No great criticism for a bloke who's given us sterling service for years now, but he's miles away from his potential MoS award last year.



Waterhouse at his enigmatic best, again. Sensational one week, average the next.



I've never been a fan of resting players, no matter what their age, but Brett looks yards slower this season. Have a break, lad, and come back rejuvanated.



MonaghanM is running on 2 cylinders, too.. Time for Dwyer to appear on the bench, giving MM a week or so off.



Riley needs to start getting his shoulder into tackles, instead of brushing off imaginary dandruff off opposition 3/4's shoulders. Luckily for him, he only has Rhys Williams vying for his place.



Atkins looks like he's troubling Waterhouses' mantle for enigmatic player of the year.



Worringly (as pointed out on Sky Sports), two 35 year old props to the urine out of us, tonight.

We need to buck our ideas up.



Positively (at last), Grix and Ratchford looked great in broken play. Superb from Higham.



Leeds played like this at a similar time for the last 2 seasons, but went on to GF glory. They are "battlehardened" in these situations. WE AREN'T.





COME ON WIRE, WE NEED TO IMPROVE. LET'S START THIS QUICKLY, OR WE'LL END UP WITH A VERY TOUGH PLAY OFF ROUTE.

Where have you got that from? I spoke to him on wednesday and he said he as another scan on monday.

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Can't argue with any of that.Top post.

He shouldn't be scapegoated, but he should definitely have the sh*t ripped out of him by Smith in training. It was lazy, pathetic and inexplicably average from a player that should know better. It's not the only time he's been made to look rank average defensively this year, he either picks it up or he gets dropped.