England were awful and their new centre combination had a difficult afternoon. There were those who expected Noon to pay the price, and Tait to be spared."I was pretty worried after that," the 25-year-old Noon said. "I was conscious there was a possibility there would be a reshuffle."As it turned out, it was Tait who was dropped, and even now Noon feels there might have been a certain amount of injustice in the way so much blame seemed to be laid at their door."Before the match there was a lot of hype about the pair of us and afterwards there was a lot of blame, with people saying it was the centres who were not firing, but as a centre every part of your game - defence, attack - relies heavily on what happens inside you, at the breakdown, in contact, how slow the ball is and I think that played against us. You can get away with resting one or two players, but don't take the mickey and say they are all injured."Joynt, who is to donate the proceeds of his book to youth rugby league development in St Helens, calls the actions of Long and Gleeson in betting on the Bulls that day "stupid." The affair forced a change in the League's rules, under which coaches now have to name their squad in advance.Ironically, Saints could be at full strength for the first time this season for Saturday's match at home to Wakefield, with Keith Mason included in their 20-man squad after recovering from the leg injury that has kept him out of contention so far.. St Helens' most successful captain, Chris Joynt, has criticised his coach over last Easter's infamous weakened team at Bradford.

The training methods were a shambles."I spoke out and it was a bit like the Roy Keane situation [at the World Cup], I was just speaking up for the lads."We were all sneaking out to the petrol station to buy chocolate because we were starving.". Robbie Savage has admitted he would reconsider his international retirement if John Toshack left the Wales job. Substitutes not used: Pressman, Einarsson.Referee: G Salisbury (Lancashire).. Substitutes not used: Doyle (gk), Beaumont.Leeds United (4-4-2): Sullivan; Kelly, Butler, Kilgallon, Richardson (Carlisle, 9); Lennon, Walton, Wright (Johnson, 65), Pugh; Hulse, Healy (Deane, 78).

This time, however, he failed to provide the heroic performance his side needed, winning a penalty after 71 minutes when Gary Kelly's trip ended a goalward burst, but then giving Sullivan a comfortable save from the spot.Nottingham Forest (4-3-2-1): Gerrard; Louis-Jean, Morgan, Doig, Curtis (Robertson, 31); Gardner, Thompson, Perch (Harris, 89); James, Bopp (Commons, 57); Taylor. Another, John Curtis, was unable to continue beyond half an hour.Even so, in a messy opening half, it had been the makeshift home side showing the strongest attacking intent, Curtis and James Perch testing Neil Sullivan from distance.A sequence of Leeds corners, some the product of defensive panic, put the home side under pressure but only after they had almost conjured a dream start to the second half, lively substitute Gregor Robertson's cross from the left met by Gareth Taylor with a diving header from 10 yards that rattled the frame of Sullivan's goal.Megson sent on Commons, whose inspirational form has fired Forest's survival hopes, with just over half an hour left, having kept him on the bench at first because of a cold. Substitutes not used: Grant (gk), Mills, Taylor.Queen's Park Rangers (4-4-2): Royce; Bignot, Davies, Rose (Edghill, 89), Shittu; Rowlands, Santos, Bircham (Ainsworth, 86), Cook; Furlong, Gallen. Substitutes not used: Rossi (gk), Thorpe, Cureton.Referee: K Friend (Leicestershire).. The ambitions of neither of these sides were well served as a 25,000 crowd saw both draw a blank at the City Ground, although relegation-threatened Forest may have greater cause to regret their failure to break a scrappy deadlock. However, a chance to claim three potentially vital points was squandered when Kris Commons failed to convert a second-half penalty.The result leaves Forest still four points adrift of safety with nine games left, while Leeds will reflect that their chance of sneaking into the play-off places is receding.Suspensions had deprived Leeds of Michael Gray and Sean Gregan while an injury to Frazer Richardson required adjustments after only nine minutes.