I agree. Funny thing is even though we lost, we controlled their forwards quite comfertably. Defence was great again. 1 try from a poor kick and one that looked like obstruction.

Sheffield only played with one forward and won? impressive.

It amazes me how a club like Sheffield remain competitive - living on hallf our attendance and yet to me - they remian favourites when we play them as far as I'm concerned.

Typical VM posts. Heard nothing from him until we lose a match. I expect all the trolls to come out of the woodwork tonight.

Just passing by littlerich, ill be having my milk and cookies in a minute then off to bed.

No more Don Valley at least.

Have to agree am afraid.

We had the same pack out against them as last season, therefore was expecting a very close one.

Maloney, Mikali, Nash (when fit)

Will give us the supremacy we need.

To be honest the loss may do us good as it makes the players realize they are not unbeatable. It also takes the pressure away a little of going through unbeaten. We needed a tough game after London and not having a proper pre season. Ratrher lose now than later in the season We certainly did not have a good preparation being stuck in traffic due to an accident on the motorway and missing the likes of Black, Maloney, Aizue, Greenwood does weaken us a little. Well done Sheffield and shows once again they will be a major threat to Fax, Widnes and Barrow

You live for these moments. Lying in wait, ready to put the boot in. You love it because it justifies your stupid user name and your trolling existence on here. You must be hacked off at the moment - what with your beloved Rhinos looking like we did in 2003. Who next for you? Castleford?

Parasite.

bet your a Man Utd fan as well , or sorry Chelsea

Edited. Why if you are an ex fan with no loyalty are you on here? Go on the Whinos site the team that cant beat Wakey or Cas

Just got back in from the game.

A bit disappointed with the result, but our defence is looking much better than it has done for a long time. Very solid tackling and not many breaking through our line.

Shame about the Seagulls fans and their bitter feelings. Still haven't got over Rob coming to us, still booing his every touch. He played very well again tonight and came in for some dubious rough stuff from them in every tackle.

Still feeling good about the season ahead, tonight wasn't the end of the world and a good win against Hunslet on Sunday will see us through okay.

Good in defence, ref a disgrace, preparation a disaster, pitch too narrow and too many players missing

However apart from all that I have to say we looked totally clueless going forward. Pretty poor stuff really

As you will soon bore of Leeds, please dont come back to supporting us..... feel free to pop into the village team up the road from Shelf as they are in need of some deserving fans.....

You called?

I went tonight and I felt that there were a lot of positives. Paterson got 100% with his old boots and the tackles that went in were immense. The commitment in defence was there but the flow in attack just needs more work.

There were times last year that we would have leaked a lot of points in that game.

Looking forward to seeing us improve further.

I agree - The attack will come with time - but the defence looks solid and we are hitting hard.

I think turning up late and starting the game straight from the warm up probably didn't help either. The guys didn't quite seem to be with it at times. Although Sheffield scored from pretty much two of four real chances that they had. They certainly weren't that impressive themselves.

I thought he wore his Dorothy shoes again!

Thats why he was clicking his heels three times before he took his kick...

I see the "herd" mentality is still here, one ex fan is entitled to his opinion, some of you don't like it and you start playing the sheep all ganging up. In the real world everyone has different opinions, doesn't mean you have to wet your pants over it and gang up like your in the school playground again.

I don't need to be in a gang to recognise that he's a prick. His posting history is testament to that. Everytime he posts crap I'll temper it with a reply.

Thanks for the lecture.

some of this seems remarkably simalar to what i put.

I thought it was a decent performace really considering the preperation. Some of the defence was very good especially our scrambling defence. Sayeeeeeds monster hit was worth the admission price alone. We didnt click in attack but it wasnt really our pitch or weather to do that so im not overly concerened. It was really our first decent hit up and in that sense it was a good game for us and as strange as it seems the result will do us a favour. A loss early doors takes some of the pressure off because no one will remember the circumstances but just the result.
Gareth Hewer was a disgrace. He didnt cost us the game or anything like that but a few of his decisions were poor to say the least. Sheffield player held up over our line, he gave a 20 metre restart.

Sheffield kick touches one of our players and hits the corner flag, he was giving a 10 metre scrum until the linesman intervined. Patterson kicks ahead chases the kick and makes the tackle himself, the genius Hewer is gives a penalty for offside.

I mean hes got bright red boots on how did he not know he had kicked it. Tamghart gets a clear spear tackle against him, no penalty. We get penalised for not playing the ball correctly but 2 out of the next five play the balls are not played by the players foot.
Overall Sheffield are dark horses for me, they probably have the 3rd best team on paper in the league and may go under the radar so to speak of a lot of teams. So on that basis i dont think its a bad result.