Yes, I think he did do the full 80 and still looked the most likely to break a tackle in the last 10 minutes, a top effort

Not by reports of him limping about some bars last night.

It makes you wonder if we should do a "Millward" and take the Wigan game as an opportunity to get everyone with a slight injury fit again and just accept we'll get 50 shoved up us.
We usually find it difficult to win at Wigan with a full team nevermind with 8 or 9 first teamers out

I've also promoted a similar thought on here in the last 24 hours. It's a battle Leeds appear highly unlikely to win at present so lets save ourselves for the battles to come starting with the Bulls the week after.



As the Opta stats from this season support the view that Burgess is a poorer defender than Bailey I don't see the issue with Opta for you in that regard.

On the other hand Burgess' go forward is considerably better than Baileys and an area you identified as weak in Burgess (handling) is on a par with Bailey in 2010, prior to the Hull KR match. Indeed in the Huddersfield game where they both last played together, Bailey had 2 handling errors to Burgess' non, one of Bailey's even made it on to Cullen's Boots 'N All piece this week where Bailey appeared concerned that Kevin Brown had him lined up.

I basically remain an Opta cynic and the reason I report the weekly breakdown figures on here is to allow posters to question their validity just as I frequently do myself.

"Typical"!!!

Burgess' handling does need a lot of work. It's one area of the game I don't quite get TBH - how some players seem to look like losing the ball every tackle (Watkins seems to have similar issues) whereas with others its almost a shock if they lose the ball in a collision.