Hardaker
Briscoe Watkins Moon Hall
McGuire Burrow
Galloway Falloon Cuthbertson
Delaney Ablett
Singleton

Ferres Sutcliffe Garbutt Keinhorst Achurch Walters Handley Golding Baldwinson Lilley

Very strong is that squad, especially with Ward, Mullally, Smith and Oledski not involved.

Our squad is less strong!

Danny Addy, Jean–Philippe Baile, Matty Blythe, Omari Caro, James Clare, Dale Ferguson, Dan Fleming, Lee Gaskell, Kurt Haggerty, Vila Halafihi, Rhys Jacks, Ben Kavanagh, Epalahame Lauaki, Joe Lumb, Alex Mellor, Adam O’Brien, Tom Olbison, Jay Pitts, Ethan Ryan, Adam Sidlow, Oscar Thomas, Jonathan Walker, Lucas Walshaw, Kris Welham, Danny Williams.

Only the three former Rhinos now then?

Yeah. Wouldn't mind a few more!

Just seen the tries on Rhinos YouTube channel. Some nice scores, especially liked Ryan Hall's try.

Also we look like we have potential to be an exceptionally hairy team this season. Maybe Kallum should regrow his afro

Loved Ferres in involvement for the Hall try, Big Keiths involvement for the Briscoe try and nice work around the ruck by Falloon for his try.

Goal kicking needs work. But we know this, Kev took time to get his strike rate up.

Yep. Patience is key.

On the two home performances so far, goal kicking would be the last of my worries. I would certainly change my prep if I was coach, and have a few first teamers playing Sunday at Featherstone.

A lack of a decent goal kicker is a worry to me as this will make the difference in tight games. Neither Hardaker nor Sutcliffe look natural goal kickers and our best kicker Lilley may be sometime off securing a starting position. Burrow's long term hamstring problems seem to prevent him from taking the job on.

Golding continues to impress and both he and Lilley look to have bright futures in the game

Let's hope Leeds can hold onto both of them. In my prescience I see them as Leeds' future half back pairing (McGuire and Burrow are yesterday's men in 2017) - providing we can also hold onto Hardaker at FB.



In all seriousness there doesn't appear to be many from here that attended the Bradford match - such a dearth of after match comments. Or have Juan's diatribes/endless battles with all and sundry scared most contributers away?



In fairness from the highlights online Burrow looked as sharp and as threatening as he has ever been.....mostly out of dummy half it has to be said.

I went yesterday and was disappointed for Ablett that the crowd wasn't bigger.
It was an excellent afternoon for rugby - I used to love such days in the era before super league.
A word of commendation to the groundstaff, considering the amount of rain we've had & the number of RU games played on it, it looked very good.
Re the game itself, Burrow looked very lively & seems to have lost none of his zip.
Singleton charged on to the ball at a good pace & Garbutt looks raring to go, our new Kylie or even Barrie Mac.
The Bulls offloaded excellently & made a good game of it, the score was closer due to our failure to convert our tries. I wonder if Zak is trying to kick the ball too hard but his kick offs were as difficult to deal with as ever.
He was safe as houses again under the high ball.
Briscoe looks back to his best & Ryan Hall was, well Ryan Hall.
McGuire made & scored the first try through his quick thinking, spotting a gap on the short side (blind side).
Watkins handling was iffy at times but he's great to watch once he has the ball in hand.
I worry that Ferres is a bit of a penalty machine but otherwise a great acquisition.
Galloway I'm not sure about, not a worldbeater but I don't think he'll let us down.
Falloon looked ok but only played about half the game - I think Burrow played the full 80.
It was good to see Sutcliffe back.
Golding continues to impress & both he & Handley have benefited from a full off-season.
Lilley wasn't on long enough, I'd have liked to have seen him & Sutcliffe on together more.
I though Achurch went ok, with his size & pace he can be a handful if he stays injury-free.
Bradford will I think go well in the Championship.
Roll on Feb 4th.

He was great individually at times, as was McGuire too. As a link for the rest of the team they were poor though, and that is the problem. We have fantastic backs, we have a very good pack. If you can't get them linked together then the team will suffer.

I would have Sutcliffe definitely playing on Sunday to get him fitter quicker. Oh, and Walters is absolute garbage, really sorry but he is.

"In my prescience"? Do you put your posts through google translate??

It's a posh way of saying "crystal ball(s)".

Enjoyed the game.

Bradford played well and will be at worst 2nd night the championship.

It was a typical friendly sloppy at times lots of swapping and changing (specially second half)

Galloway looked ok but was blowing a lot but he is a big lad and will go ok I think once he gets some match fitness.

Garbut MOM for me, looked a great solid player last year, looks like a real force for this season not just a plodder.

Golding is a real future star, but where do we play him, I reckon he could a easily play centre, not a huge player like some in the modern game, but great feet strong and busts tackles, can see him replacing Moon.

Falloon looked good great sharp distribution and scored his try well.

Ferres yes needs to sort silly jiggly penalties out.

Lilley needed more time on field

And I think we pretty much know about everyone else.

Plenty to look forward to.

Hope Bradford come up. Super league and Leeds need a strong again Bradford.

Glad to see we gave you a contest. Couldn't make it to the match.

Golding has the class to play in most of the backs/half positions IMO.




I will continue to argue my corner (IMO of course) without fear or favour with any contributors when required!



You may recall my standing up for Burrow ( & Mac) have been among my "diatribes/endless battles" particularly with you Nanty

There some nice stuff from your boys. I think you might be in for a good season. Just got to time it right for the final 8.

I remember Golding at Warrington early last season as looking a bit nervous but willing to put effort in

Yesterday (and NZ game) we see a lad who looks so comfortable with the ball in hand it's untrue

Great work by Brian Mac

....really? You're surely forgetting about his first name namesake who is surely first in line to replace anybody who might depart in the threequarters !!

Golding IMO already has the confidence to make a success of running plays from SO; alongside Lilley who if anything looks even more confident. They are all three an exciting prospect for the future of the club

He (Golding) didn't look too confident in the Salford game either.......as you say great work by the coach/club in nurturing his talent at just the right pace. I think we all agree the lad has a great future ahead of him. His pass for Faloon's try was confidently sublime for one so young

Pedant



....but thanks for pointing out my mistake. It is the only way we learn.

Let's hope you will learn from your many mistakes in contradicting my erudition.

Hard to tell how we will go across the back line structure wise until a couple of games in I reckon. Looking at the forwards for me was most interesting yesterday. Early doors, but, we may prosper in different ways with the new lads I reckon. Galloway looks like he could be a wrecking ball, he's never gonna do stints like JP, but I think he may make more yards per carry. As for Garbutt, he will also make good yards per carry, but unlike Kyle, we have more chance of an offload from him. He looked to offload a couple of times with unfortunately no support on hand. Baldwinson has made a big lad, but in the couple of spells I've seen, it's been hard to judge what sort of an impact he may have. We will obviously miss JP's immense tackling stints, but at times he lacked the energy to go forward on the back of it. Maybe the new lads only being able to do shorter stints may be a bonus, only time will tell. Going forward the pack looks plenty strong enough, whether they will defend like the treble winning pack is the key question.

Shame this soi-disant erudition does not extend to rugby so that other contributors (or contributers as you so eruditely would say) would not contradict your acumen so often.