Re: London 0 Leeds Rhinos 60 : Thu Aug 01, 2013 5:33 pm  

mooro wrote:

So...have I chosen a bad moment for my first RL game (I'll be supporting London)?! Not been before but bought WC tickets for the Wembley double-header and thought I should check out and support some club rugby first.

I am not saying it will be a one sided game but the RL have only sent one in goal referee for this match!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: London 0 Leeds Rhinos 60 : Thu Aug 01, 2013 6:25 pm  

It gets worse. Robertson and Rodney missing AGAIN! And J O'C still at stand-off.

Re: London 0 Leeds Rhinos 60 : Thu Aug 01, 2013 10:06 pm  

Well. it actually got much better. Pleased to have egg on face over this.

Re: London 0 Leeds Rhinos 60 : Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:04 pm  

BroncOnIon wrote:

Well. it actually got much better. Pleased to have egg on face over this.

Me too, but we still lost.

Re: London 0 Leeds Rhinos 60 : Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:17 pm  

scimitars wrote:

Me too, but we still lost.

Yep....but it shows how low we've gone when fans are relieved by a loss not being a hammering.

-439 points in the +/- column this year....that's another Gus Mackay record...he's on a roll!

4 games to go......I wonder if he's going for the record for most points shipped in a season? Currently 968 over 28 games in the year 2000 (34.57 per game)...we're not far off now on 850 (36.95) with 4 to go.....can he do it?

Re: London 0 Leeds Rhinos 60 : Fri Aug 02, 2013 12:00 am  

They showed heart today though, i can always forgive a loss with any team if they play with pride but come up short, Soward is class, shame he's going back to Oz.
I even thought the fans had more about them today, your drummer is rubbish but he's a loud sod.
More promising all around but at the end still a loss, albeit a guns blazing rather than a capitulation.

Lastly, there was a drunk bloke sat in front of me with a pair of underpants on his head...WTF! and i thought Cas fans were weird.

Re: London 0 Leeds Rhinos 60 : Fri Aug 02, 2013 12:02 am  

gutterfax wrote:

it shows how low we've gone when fans are relieved by a loss not being a hammering.

I thought the game showed that there might be some life in the corpse yet.

Even Kaufisi showed willing I thought.

Re: London 0 Leeds Rhinos 60 : Fri Aug 02, 2013 2:51 am  

gutterfax wrote:

Yep....but it shows how low we've gone when fans are relieved by a loss not being a hammering.

i was left disgusted again at the stoop tonight. yes there was more effort and pride on display from the players than we're used to seeing which i'm of course pleased about, but the way people were celebrating it at the end you'd have thought that we'd won the game. not to mention that for all the effort there was still bucketloads of sloppy play, clueless attacking and soft defence which hardly deserved the standing ovation they received at the end.

i think TR's comments summed up the collective feeling. when asked if he was frustrated that the team had played well only now when there's nothing left to play for and asked if he would have any thoughts about what might have been this season, he denied being frustrated and said that he was proud of the performance. personally speaking, i'm fecking frustrated about it and it's going to take more than one game where the team leaves nothing out there for me to forget the rest of this debacle of a season on the pitch.

props to soward- "we've done a bit better but we still haven't got the win, good enough isn't good enough". this is the winner's attitude that the club at large lacks, sadly i feel down to its fans

Re: London 0 Leeds Rhinos 60 : Fri Aug 02, 2013 3:19 am  

Horatio Yed wrote:

Lastly, there was a drunk bloke sat in front of me with a pair of underpants on his head...WTF!

Posted Wednesday 31st at 11.14 am in another thread:

Paddock Punter wrote:

Time to bring the pants out and put them on your head (clean ones mind)

Surely not

Re: London 0 Leeds Rhinos 60 : Fri Aug 02, 2013 6:04 am  

rob13 wrote:

i was left disgusted again at the stoop tonight. yes there was more effort and pride on display from the players than we're used to seeing which i'm of course pleased about, but the way people were celebrating it at the end you'd have thought that we'd won the game. not to mention that for all the effort there was still bucketloads of sloppy play, clueless attacking and soft defence which hardly deserved the standing ovation they received at the end.

i think TR's comments summed up the collective feeling. when asked if he was frustrated that the team had played well only now when there's nothing left to play for and asked if he would have any thoughts about what might have been this season, he denied being frustrated and said that he was proud of the performance. personally speaking, i'm fecking frustrated about it and it's going to take more than one game where the team leaves nothing out there for me to forget the rest of this debacle of a season on the pitch.

props to soward- "we've done a bit better but we still haven't got the win, good enough isn't good enough". this is the winner's attitude that the club at large lacks, sadly i feel down to its fans

Good post. Clearly a better effort but still lots of errors and some dismal defense in a low intensity game.

The 80 mins from Kaufusi intrigued me. I'm not sure he actually put in any more effort than normal but his scoot from dummy half that led to the first try was a real surprise (not least to the Leeds defense).

I hope the club wasn't counting me in its claims of a standing ovation at the end. I was just standing up to leave.