Smiths fault, constantly moving players out of position and playing players when not in form. Why on a day like today

at least we can be thankful that Saturday's defeat will mean that we wont be subjected to one of those Godawful "what model of Adeedus (sic) trainers is everyone wearing for Wembley" threads.

A lad on my FB, its his dad. Hes stable by all accounts, but still in hospital. The lad posted thanking all the medical staff for their help.

Hope he has a speedy recovery!!

To be fair our defence was awesome for the most part of the game. The difference in the two halves of the game were the half back combination.

Ratchford (as good as he can be) should never be allowed near the ball on the last tackle, his decison making is terrible. In the space of 5 minutes he kicked the ball dead, kicked the ball into the back of someone's head and gave a penalty away on our 10m line for a high tackle. second half, slide him to the centres and give Bridge the command - different game.

The other poor point was Asotasi who for me hasn;t justified his wages in any game. He was left for dead and stepped really easily at lest twice. He passed the ball twice, both times to a Leeds player - Get shut, get shut now.

I've refrained from commenting until now as I was far too upset / annoyed / disappointed.

Leeds fully deserved to win - as most on here agree

When we gave the 1st penalty away I predicted that Ratch would kick the ball dead at the restart and it would just not be our day.

I think Joel will be disappointed with himself with their first try. (I was) Hall is world class but he had very little room to move in.

Second try was the killer, but it was forward. I too was directly in line.
Leeds deserved to be 14-0 up at half time but to have a try like that allowed to stand was a key point in the game. At 8-0 we still had a chance.

Credit Leeds with their game plan and execution of it, but too many of our players just didn't perform.

Another disappointing thing was the 12k crowd. Time was when there would be a sell-out for a semi.
I was pleased Widnes / Cas was.

That depends on the initial forward motion of the player. The grey area is that, if the player is running forwards, but passes in a backwards motions, it is still possible for the ball to travel forwards.

In the instance of the try, McGuire is running sideways, so its a clear forward pass. I don't have a physics PHD or anything but I'm sure if you pass the ball forward, then it travels forward??