Caretakers should look smart,he was right.

I don't think it was a knock on but thought it was obstruction without a shadow of doubt.

Can the video ref only check what the ref asks him to look at?

Even though we lost I think it was great effort by saints with all the injuries and losing dixon, eastmond and pryce during the game.

We was in control just after halftime and if pryce stayed on pitch I think we'd have won the game.

How many times do we lose to leeds from kicks! The sooner we get shut of our dodgy wingers the better.

James roby was outstanding again!

I'm not keen of defending inept wing play but in this instance I think you may be being a little harsh on Gardner. It was good play by Donald to knock the ball back (he had no itention of going for the catch) and if anything Flannery should not have been sucked into the play ball watching.

But also, Gardner should have realised that Leeds were doing what they were doing and if he couldn't catch it he should have at least batted it into touch. A good player anticipates what the opposition is planning. Gardner just got sucked in and made a hash of it twice. Once is forgivable; twice is definitely not. He was awful and there was no two ways about that.

TBH I'm not big fan of either of our first choice wingers but we are where we are - I honestly dont think it helps when we dont seem to have settled centre wing partnerships but last night wasnt one of his better games.

Sadly the last really 'good' winger we had was Darren Albert and we replaced him with a lazy second row with chip pan grease on his hands and a wooden back but hey thats Saints recruitment policy in the lat few years

obstruction don't talk rubbish senior did nothing wrong he stood his ground which your allowed to do and lomax pulled him down trying to make it look like obstruction.your all moaning about injuries but when we have them u say we are making excuses i think you forgotten we have 7 players missing that was not our strongest team either.you better start making some new excuses for when where both full strength for the semi final

To be honest mate I think Gardner was at fault, he should be taking them kicks.

I do however think we should have been up quicker on sinfield but everyone stood and watched him. Wilkin if playing would have put pressure on the Leeds kicker.

From a Leeds perspective I thought your bench really did hold up pretty well considering it was pretty lightweight in the "names" department and you should take a lot of credit for the way you played once Eastmond and Pryce had been crocked.

I am pretty sure once both squads are bolstered by a few returns from injury the semi final will be a totally differend game..........though am sure it will be just as close.

Welcome to the standard of education in Leeds.

Was very proud of them last night with no Keiron, Leon or Kyle.
Quite gutted for Wellens after dropping the ball so close to the line but we did very very well.

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Yes he did,but he was talking about JJB possibly being taken out off the ball,NOT a Saints player being obstructed.

In terms of the Video Ref decision, Saints fans will say Maguire touched it, Leeds fans will say he didn't. It didn't change in flight, therefore, no evidence that he touched it.

To be honest, neither team were exactly clinical tonight, some days things go against you, and that was one of those days.

Clough is outstanding, for me, but I am a big fan of his. I'd also like to give big wraps to Matty Ashurst and especially Jake Emmit, who I though both played well.

Moore seems to be a some what Jekkell and Hyde character, but certainly has the talent to become an excellent hooker.

It did change in flight, which is evidence that he touched it. It isn't proof but it is evidence. Proof would have been an obvious hit on the ball. But it did change in flight, that was clear.

I watched that and immediately thought - he's going to give it. I couldn't really see any evidence of contact, although it was obviously close.

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Mcguire must have some magical forces around his body to make the ball move differently to what it was before it got near him?
Also the 2nd kick by Sinfield that Leeds scored from the right winger was at least a metre offside. Don't think the ref even checked it?
Thought saints were harshly done by and a formal apology from Cummings should be ensuing.

Conceding so many tries from kicks in games like these will be the death of us once again, it happens far too often - all three first half tries were extremely poor ones to concede, so disappointing to be let down like that again. We should have won the game even under the tough circumstances, there were some terrific performances from the young forwards once again.

I'm still undecided about the McGuire incident. It's starting to rotate when it bounces, but it does seem to quicken when it goes past his arm. But has it necessarily gone forward? Can't tell.

I do want to come in on this 'missing loads of players' thing. Your boys did really well having lost both halfbacks during the game, but as for 'already missing 7'-we were already missing Webb, Burrow, Leulaui, Diskin, Burgess & Lauititi, of whom 3 (Webb, Burrow & Lauititi) are part of that 'core group' that makes stuff happen.

I'm really looking forward to the game at the Galpharm-obviously if Eastmond's missing that's a great shame, as he's a quality player, but hopefully it'll be a fantastic exhibition of rugby league.

Boots'n'All showed it beautifully and Jon Wells was convinced he knocked on.

More or less everybody was convinced he had knocked on - everybody except the ref and video ref and of course the Leeds speccies.

To be honest Leeds did get penalised for 2 forward passes during the game, in which nearly made most of us Saints fans have to check twice, to make sure the ref wasn't mistaken. Asking for that try to be chalked off would have been taking the p*ss