to the bradfors fan. oloughlin got away with far too much messing around.it was a good game wigan switched off for 1 minute in that second half and u cant afford to do that. much tougher than our game last week cant wait for the next meeting

How did he get away with far too much? Got penalised for absolutely everything!!!

Even having his arm clamped between the ball by the Leeds player. Absolute tosh!!!!

Yeah, I heard it just as Pat was about to strike the ball.

The standard of refereeing was up to usual hopeless standard. It was obvious the guy was unwilling to penalise the Whinos as much as Wigan.

Have to admit though the penalties & dropped ball by both Coley & Prescott cost us dearly.

PS Was anyone else driven mad by Kear's obvious pro-Leeds commentary today, how on Earth could he have commented neutrally when the day before he'd tipped the Whinos to win the comp.

Unlucky today Wigan. Thought you probably had the best of it but we took one of the 2 chances we had. Very entertaining game.

Great game but its always dissapointing when a side who has played clearly better has lost due to inept referring.

We deserved to win that game so much and had it stolen.

Give over. We lost the game because we didnt convert our chances. The ref didn't make us lie on in the tackle, the ref didn't drop our passes & the ref didnt miss our kicks at goal.

Sinfield got penalised for exactly the same about 5minutes later so dont go too OTT about it.

I have a heart condition, and believe me, games like today don't help!!

Hope all have a safe journey home.

of course he didn't, theres no argument that we could have still won the game had we kept our composure,,,,, but include us missing j.tompkins for a period after being booted in the head..(something players have been easily binned for in the past....) and farrell being questionably sin binned.. and the game could of been very different.

i hope the players can take some positives from this and learn some lessons, but the best team lost. and to say its gutting would be an underestimation. but i guess thats rugby league....

Sorry, the best team never loses. The aim of rugby league is to score more points than your opposition, if you do that your the winner and thus, the best team.

Have to agree. I wasn't at all impressed with the decision against O'Loughlin but he evened it up by penalising Sinfield. Had he given that decision against Wigan then we could have had a justified argument.

Wigan unlucky, best team for most of the game. Penalty count was just about even, but O'Loughlin cost you a lot of territory in the second half by ball stealing. Leeds didn't seem to know what tactics to employ. I was amazed that they chose to kick two penalties in the time that Farrell was in the sin bin.

I think it was avery tense game which we dominated for most parts we just needed to be a bit more composed at times. Like when Sam could have put a kick in to amos instead of throwing a daft pass. And the kick charged down by Peacock he should have stood a lot deeper.Dont get me wrong Im a big tomkins fan he will learn from this hopefully grand final time.

Inexperience, but yes he will learn from that game and the couple of mistakes he made, very good young "British" player player though.

Quality game!

Excellent cup tie with the result in doubt right up to the final minute.

Congrats on making it so, but you do yourselves a disservice by whinging on about ifs and buts and maybes.

Leave that sort of nonsense to the Bradford lot, they're experts at it!

See youz all at Old Trafford come October!

Snatched defeat from reach of victory,How many times did we have Leeds in own 20 after 3 tackles to give away a pen, No sustained pressure on there line. Cannot remember us look like scoring. Only positive we can take is we know were we lost the game.

No, but the better team does lose sometimes.
When there is a bigger margin, say 10 points, then it is unlikely that the better team has lost.

Could have gone either way.

Don't think bentham was as bad as our fans were making out but he changed the game unfairly with first senior and then sending farrell in the bin, he was already in the air before mcguire even kicked the ball.

Harsh but was impressed how we hung in there in the 2nd half particulary.

Disagree really, if the score is so tight then generally the stats will be quite even (as they were yesterday).

Then it comes down to who makes the bigger plays in the game, in yesterdays case it was Leeds / Smith who made the big play when it was needed and that made them the better team. IMO anyway.

Those types of games live long in the memories for the victorious, every club has their own over the years:

Renouf to Rads for us v Bradford.
Saints Wide to West try.

For this to happen there has to be a loser, unfortunately it was our turn.

I think it is fair to say it was agreat game where two teams played fantastically given the conditions, but someone had to lose, this time it was wigan maybe next time it will be the other side

Please stop using excuses look in the papers you clearly were not the best team or you would have won, its all about taking chances you had a couple you didnt take them Leeds did end of story really,

Oh and by the way you still have alot of work to do to reach the grand final by no means a cert, just loose with diginity, fans of other clubs would respect you so much more, as you have said before no one has adevine right to win any game trophy or title.

Yes the ref was poor but for both sides just try takeing you red and white specks off ans look objectively at the game

Too true fella.

Maybe if the dimwit hadnt been offside the referee wouldnt have had to call him for it!!!???