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Think you are clutching at straws with that.KOOCH wrote:Correct.Nothing amazing but we have been humbled tonight. Questions still got to be asked.Would it have been another story if we had Lockers,Flower,Charnley,Thornley etc at our disposal.Not a true reflection.That said the rhino's on the night are the better team with bragging rights on this ocassion. Trophy's at the end of season are what count.
So they wouldn't have made a difference? Every credit to Leeds they played well, but was helped by some dubious decisions from the first tackle by Bentham that gave them momentum, nothing to fear for me though.DaveO wrote:Think you are clutching at straws with that.KOOCH wrote:Correct.Nothing amazing but we have been humbled tonight. Questions still got to be asked.Would it have been another story if we had Lockers,Flower,Charnley,Thornley etc at our disposal.Not a true reflection.That said the rhino's on the night are the better team with bragging rights on this ocassion. Trophy's at the end of season are what count.
There is much debate re Thornley (I like him by the way) but Leeds were missing players as well.TrueBlueWarrior wrote:So they wouldn't have made a difference? Every credit to Leeds they played well, but was helped by some dubious decisions from the first tackle by Bentham that gave them momentum, nothing to fear for me though.DaveO wrote:Think you are clutching at straws with that.KOOCH wrote:Correct.Nothing amazing but we have been humbled tonight. Questions still got to be asked.Would it have been another story if we had Lockers,Flower,Charnley,Thornley etc at our disposal.Not a true reflection.That said the rhino's on the night are the better team with bragging rights on this ocassion. Trophy's at the end of season are what count.
I'll go with that. I thought 22-12 was fair, as did ITV News who reported this as the final score. Their last 6 points pissed me off more than anything!KOOCH wrote:Correct.Nothing amazing but we have been humbled tonight. Questions still got to be asked.Would it have been another story if we had Lockers,Flower,Charnley,Thornley etc at our disposal.Not a true reflection.That said the rhino's on the night are the better team with bragging rights on this ocassion. Trophy's at the end of season are what count.cpwigan wrote:Leeds are playing an excellent brand of RL because it is simple and low on mistakes which keep opponents away from their try line but I see nothing to fear. Show them due respect but nothing they do is amazing. Then again therein lies a message to opponents, keep it simple and attack up the guts.
Yep, a pretty fair summation, OF THE SEASON SO FAR!God wrote:
Injury free and flowing well they will have a lul around the end of next month but will fire again to go all the way. IMO Wigan are the only team capable of beating Leeds in a tight game and on evidence we simply don't have the players.
Correct. It is of course our own fault we don't have the players.God wrote:Leeds remind me of Wigan under Madge, a smothering defence in numbers much changed from last season. A risk free brand of rugby they will be hard to beat this season and with that I tip them to do the treble and win he lot.
Wigan simply don't have the punch up front to trouble the likes of Peacock et all and don't have the pace outwide over Leeds either. They currently have the best fullback in the league and also the best 3/4 by a mile.
Injury free and flowing well they will have a lul around the end of next month but will fire again to go all the way. IMO Wigan are the only team capable of beating Leeds in a tight game and on evidence we simply don't have the players.
There is debate re Thornley but would Hardaker have gone round him as easily as he did Sarge? don'tknowDaveO wrote:
There is much debate re Thornley (I like him by the way) but Leeds were missing players as well.
I believe if Charnley had either of Gellings' breaks he would have probably gone the distance and scoredDaveO wrote: How much influence would a winger have?
I agree, however for me, after the first 15 minutes or so for the most part Leeds didn't get as far down field during their sets as we did. The difference being they took their chances when they came, whereas we didn't, and more importantly their last tackle options/kicks were superior to ours. Our kick options were naive at best, poorly executed at worst, we never seemed to put a grubber into the in-goal to force a drop out or take options to keep pressure on.DaveO wrote: Lockers is looking like retirement material because he is injured more than he plays.
We have a few injuries to players and we are well beaten. Hence my comment.