Sometimes the drift in having all 3 on the pitch at the same time leaves us with no game plan at all or looking lost on the park. All 3 can work if they stick to a single gameplan.

When I saw he was on the bench instead of Buderus I assumed that was the plan also. Bring him on last 10 of the first half and 20 minutes into the second half to attack tiring dummy half defenders.

I noticed Ablett didn't get much game time compared to his usual stint, possibly not fully match fit. Maybe Sinny had to drop to 13 because of that and Burrow comes in at 7.

Didn't we debate to death the McGuire/Burrow can't play together question years ago when Burrow first started to break into the first team? Surely we should have put that to bed after three titles?

I thought Burrow would come off the bench and spell Diskin at dummy half, mainly because I thought the tactic of playing a big lad at 6 to absorb the physical threat of a big opposing pack and then bringing on your real 6 or 7 later had been thrown in the bin when Andy Goodway was sacked from the GB job.

Apparantly not. And nice to see it working as well as ever.

I thought we looked a lot more fluent with Burrow off the pitch, but setting that aside it should be also noted that (IIRC) we didn't score a single try when Lauititi was on the bench. It's ridiculous how much less dangerous Leeds are without a single attacking threat in the forwards (giving the halfbacks more time and options as well as what it's worth for itself).

Yes but apparently a great half an hour against an weakened and dispirited Catalans is a better indications of their ability to play together than those three title winning seasons.

You've been round here long enough to know that the last half an hour is what we judge things on, not the last five years. You should know better than that. tsk tsk.