Re: Leeds (h) play-offs : Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:30 pm  

Porman wrote:

Leeds fan in peace. Just watched Matty Peet post match. What a great bloke he is. Spoke very well in what must be a disappointing night. Not often do you see that much dignity in defeat from a coach. Look forward to next year. All the best.

Same for Smith, 2 very humble men and clearly quality coaches.

Kind of blokes teams want to play for.

Re: Leeds (h) play-offs : Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:31 pm  

Neruda wrote:

dominating field position isnt everything though - the fact you only scored 4 in the first half shows how resiliant our defence was.
i dont think you created one other clear cut scoring chance in the first half, and we were just so clinical after the half
you can say your attack was clunky but our goal line defence was fantastic
good game, but we deserved it in the end

It’s not everything as was proven tonight but you won’t win many games with stats like tonight, even with 12 men we were still on top.
That’s 2 games now where we’ve had loads of ball on your line and struggled to break you down so I give full credit to your goal line defence, reminded me of our attack under Lam.

Re: Leeds (h) play-offs : Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:35 pm  

CobraCraig wrote:

It’s not everything as was proven tonight but you won’t win many games with stats like tonight, even with 12 men we were still on top.
That’s 2 games now where we’ve had loads of ball on your line and struggled to break you down so I give full credit to your goal line defence, reminded me of our attack under Lam.

Smith and Tommy were poor tonight, Cust was a huge miss.

Both our halves seemed nervous and seemed to snatch at chances when he had field position.

Cust is such a level headed player who offers a calming influence and composure, qualities which were badly missed tonight.

Re: Leeds (h) play-offs : Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:37 pm  

Enfield St wrote:

I’ve not seen it on tv yet, but saw it on the screen and it seemed harsh to me.

Certainly no malice.

In todays game it’s a red, no question imo. As I said earlier I thought the slow mo replay made it look better than it was, at full pace it looked a lot worse and it was clear that there was frustration behind that after finding ourselves behind in a game we really shouldn’t have been. Bateman I imagine is distraught and to compound that Sezer can’t play in the grand final which is heart breaking for the bloke.

Re: Leeds (h) play-offs : Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:45 pm  

jonh wrote:

Smith and Tommy were poor tonight, Cust was a huge miss.

Both our halves seemed nervous and seemed to snatch at chances when he had field position.

Cust is such a level headed player who offers a calming influence and composure, qualities which were badly missed tonight.

I thought Smiths kicking was decent and it gave us the platform to keep the pressure on with regards to territory in terms first half outside of that Smith, Tommy and Powell created nothing really but even though it was frustrating to only be 2 ahead at half time i felt we had landed enough blows to soften Leeds up in the second half and wear them down but the 5/10 minutes of madness from us conceding 2 soft try’s and then the red card have ultimately cost us the game, it’s given Leeds the extra belief they needed and obviously the numerical advantage.
Fair play to Leeds that was amazing goal line defence but I do stand by my statement and I don’t think this Leeds side is great, I could see Saints putting a beating on them next week.

Re: Leeds (h) play-offs : Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:48 pm  

Smith's kicking game was superb, but he was dreadful with ball in hand.

Re: Leeds (h) play-offs : Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:50 pm  

CobraCraig wrote:

I thought Smiths kicking was decent and it gave us the platform to keep the pressure on with regards to territory in terms first half outside of that Smith, Tommy and Powell created nothing really but even though it was frustrating to only be 2 ahead at half time i felt we had landed enough blows to soften Leeds up in the second half and wear them down but the 5/10 minutes of madness from us conceding 2 soft try’s and then the red card have ultimately cost us the game, it’s given Leeds the extra belief they needed and obviously the numerical advantage.
Fair play to Leeds that was amazing goal line defence but I do stand by my statement and I don’t think this Leeds side is great, I could see Saints putting a beating on them next week.

We've not beat Salford yet

Re: Leeds (h) play-offs : Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:52 pm  

Jack Burton wrote:

Smith's kicking game was superb, but he was dreadful with ball in hand.

Agreed. I think if Cust was fit we go into the half time break 12 up at least.

Smith seemed very nervous. Played himself out of the England squad tonight for me.

Re: Leeds (h) play-offs : Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:54 pm  

thesaint62 wrote:

We've not beat Salford yet

True when you look that all the top teams have lost Catalan ,Huddersfield and Wigan who knows what the Saints result will bring.

Re: Leeds (h) play-offs : Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:55 pm  

jonh wrote:

Smith and Tommy were poor tonight, Cust was a huge miss.

Both our halves seemed nervous and seemed to snatch at chances when he had field position.

Cust is such a level headed player who offers a calming influence and composure, qualities which were badly missed tonight.

Powell was terrible too.