You evidently have an extremely low opinion of RL in general if you are categorising Wigan and their performance as "2nd rate".



Take a straw poll of neutrals and most will say they were thoroughly entertained watching last nights game.



I expect very few will see Wigan as "second rate".



Maybe you should consider reversing the lobotomy?

Buderus was obviously not match fit yet still had a brilliant game. At Birch services he had to carryout some stretching exercises in the car park and then had a mini fitness test before the warm up session. Everyone of us needs to pray that his substitution was partly precautionary because without him our "three in a row" quest is over!

It's the senior players that are giving the penaties away.

Didn't Danny M give 4 away?



4 penaties in a match!



and it's all down to tiredness.

Can anyone answer how many halves of RL have Leeds has this season without scoring? tvoc?

Scoreless halves by Leeds in 2009:



Bradford Away 2nd Half

Harlequins Home 1st Half (and all but the final 60 seconds of the 2nd also)

Huddersfield Home 1st Half

Wigan Away 2nd Half



Half time to Result:



Winning at Half Time - Won 12, Lost 2 (Les Catalans (A), Wigan (A))



Losing at Half Time - Lost 5, Won 4 (Hull KR (A), Huddersfield (H), Wakefield (A), Hull KR (H))



Drawing at Half Time - won 0, Lost 1 (Bradford (A))

Stuff the result – the missus and I were on the box again, ok so we were both sat there looking mighty p*ssed off but on the box all the same.



That’s twice this season and once on the official RFL 2008 season review DVD – that makes me a celebrity.

We lost to the better team on the night, it is allowed you know.



Notwithstanding the result, the game was exciting and Wigan deserve huge praise for their 'Big One' campaign. Easy to be cynical etc but they got 20k+ in on a Friday night. Great atmosphere, plenty of noise etc

You still ed that Kyle Briggs got the boot?



Now he definitely wasn't up to SL standard

The second half was very very poor. Diskin's service from acting half was dreadful. I'm a fan of his, and I wasn't overly impressed by the signing of Buderus, but TBH he's playing like an NL hooker at best. Some of his passing was woefully slow and misdirected. That hurts the whole team. Near the end the penalties just became a joke as Leeds clearly stopped trying some time before then.

For the only areas that can be significantly improved is dissent, off side and in and around the ruck.



We did not give any penalties for dissent, Off-side is unforgiveable - I think we only gave one penalty away - it is around the ruck - we seem very slow at moving away from the tackle the likes of JJB and Ablett appear to be very slow.



The only problem with that is the ref's lack of consistency - IMO Leeds have been on the end of some pretty poor reffing where different interpretations have been applied to the opposition. The penalty awarded against McGuire for interference when he trying to take avoiding action as the winger jumped for the ball is the type of 50/50 decision that has gone against us.

Who was the main culrpit for that on Friday?

Either JJB or McGuire although I am not sure how many of the penalties given against McGuire were for holding down - one certainly wasn't holding down